A forthright man, outspoken opponent of dictatorships of all colours, of sloppiness, of abstraction for abstraction's sake, and of the 'publish or perish' syndrome, his interests went far beyond mathematical research.
Ang tahas man, pigil sa ibayo ng dictatorships ng lahat ng watawat, ng sloppiness, ng abstraction para sa abstraction alang-alang, at ng 'publish o mapahamak' sindrom, ang kanyang interes na pumunta sa malayong ibayo matematiko research.