KARIN BAUR
Seeing very young people die of serious illnesses [...] convinced me that I'd rather study mathematics than medicine.
[...] health problems are not well posed, and medicine, which is not an exact science, relies on “trial and error”. Why and how a treatment is efficient is unclear. Seeing very young people die of serious illnesses such as cancer, convinced me that I would rather study mathematics than medicine.
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