He remarked in his autobiography that his keenest interests were in religion and mathematics, and that only his wish to know more mathematics kept him from suicide.
وذكر في سيرته الذاتية أن أكبر اهتماماته كانت الدين والرياضيات وأن رغبته في تعلم المزيد من الرياضيات ردعته عن الانتحار.