I am a grandfather.
Although you'd never know it.
I have two grandchildren, whom I've never seen.
I have one child, a daughter.
A violinist, who's married to a physician who is a gene g-e-n-e doctor.
They live in Manhattan, and, um, we don't get along.
I have never seen the children.
I haven't seen her since a few weeks after her marriage, about ten years ago.
Her name is (Nadjestra).
Her mother was Russian, and_ for_ for short his_ her name is Nadia.
I myself, am the son of a worker which may explain some of the things I have been able to do.
And other things I could not do.
My father, was a structural, steel, ironworker.
Very rough trade, dangerous, hard work, and very high areas, thousands of feet above the ground and all, you know.
And I had five brothers, no daughter, no sisters.
And I tried iron work, but I found it wasn't for me.
I just was too afraid of walking on a little, girder way up in the air.
Uh, they say you only can do this if you don't think about falling, just think about where the foot goes next.
By the way some American Indians like the Iroquois, from Canada, as well as upper New York state.
Make wonderful iron workers, because they can work at heights, without any less_ any, any loss of efficiency.
So I tried different things.
It was clear for me to do what I wanted to do.
My father didn't say I should or should not become a musician.
He didn't even know, nor did my mother, what it meant to be a physicist.
She said, "son, is there any money in physics."
I didn't know I was just a student.
I got through two years of it and sometimes... I get a little despondent.
And I think, "how much easier things would be for me if I had become a scientist." gone through with what I started.
But it's a false illusion.
Now I would feel very unhappy, if I had to give up the hours each day I spend with music.
And, the joy I feel looking forward to a good lesson with a student.
I know it would take me, a few weeks of_ a few, taking the classes of_ as a senior here at the university.
Free courses, but it wouldn't last.
I would back- be in the same state I am in now.
Which is to say I have longings and great respect for people who, are physicists and mathematicians.
But you know there is always someone better at a job than you are.
I_ I'm pleased to hear that the Russian mathematicians are better than ours.
I am respectful, of friends who are scientists but that's about, it.
Most enthusiastic about music.