I många historier av Joe Haldeman nämns huvudpersonens utbildning i matematik även om det är ganska irrelevant för plottet.
Har han sagt varför det är? Har han studerat matematiken själv, eller ångrar att han inte gjorde det?
I "En självbiografisk ramble av Joe Haldeman", Autobiografisk Ramble , säger han:
...When September came around, I signed up as a part-time graduate student, so I'd have more time to write. On the first day of classes, I found out that the professor who was teaching the one I really needed -- Simulation of Physical Systems -- had run off to another university, leaving his notes with a graduate student who promised he'd try to stay one week ahead of us. I quit. I sat down and wrote the two chapters and outline for War Year and sent them to Bova. Two weeks later, I had a contract from Holt, Rinehart and Winston. I dropped out of mathematics and never looked back.
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