\nSavage: <\/strong> There was a math professor at Michigan who had a big influence on both Jimmie and myself, a man named G. Y. Rainich. He rescued Jimmie and brought him into the Math Department and got him going in the right direction. I found Rainich a very kindly man. I took a seminar on geometry with him when I was at Michigan. At the first meeting of the seminar there were four Rainich looked at the bunch of us and said that he would teach this geometry seminar in total darkness, \u201cjust like in Russia.\u201d <\/strong>He said that they had always studied geometry the last thing in the day, in darkness, because they couldn\u2019t afford a candle, and thus it had \u201cto be purely mental.\u201d And his reasoning for doing it with this group was\u2014 there was myself, who was moderately visually disabled, another graduate student who was quite a bit more visually disabled than I was, another student who was totally blind, and the only other student I can remember was a priest who I think had normal vision, but I\u2019m not sure. So we had a blind seminar, and Rainich was very good. The three visually disabled students all went on to receive doctorates.
\n Sampson: <\/strong>How much of a disadvantage was your eyesight when you were going through public schools or college?
\n Savage:<\/strong> I think eyesight was both a disadvantage and an advantage. I never met a blackboard that I could see, and, you know, I don\u2019t make eye contact with people. A lot of things are missing in my view of a scene. On the other hand, extreme myopes, like Jimmie and I, could read forever with great comfort.<\/strong> And so, both Jimmie and I did a tremendous amount of reading.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n ######################################<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
For notes on teaching. ###################################### Statistical Science, 1999, Vol. 14, No. 1, 126\u2013148 “A Conversation with I. Richard Savage,” Allan R. Sampson with Bruce Spencer in attendance:
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