ADVENTURES IN PHYSICS AND MATH Edward Witten
From a young age, I was fascinated by astronomy. This was not exceptional because the late 1950’s were the start of the space race and everyone was excited about space. I really cannot remember how much my interest in astronomy predated the space race. At the age of about nine or ten, I was given a small telescope (a three inch reflector) and one of the highlights of my growing up was to see the rings of Saturn. Something that puzzles me in…