is the second bit true? why lump mathematics with your leaving of the university?
what does it mean to leave mathematics?
i stopped looking at the stars because i left the business that hires engineers to build commercial lenses?
I did not mean to lump maths and Berkeley together - I happened to leave both at the same time, but that doesn't mean I had to, or indeed that this was necessarily best for me, or would be best for others.
my concern was that if you ever found happiness in research that you dropped that happiness assuming the career and research were the same
what happened to all the open thoughts you developed in your area of interest?