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“You cannot ask for more in life than
making a difference in the lives of
other people,” she says.
Today, despite officially retiring in 2004
and moving on from mentorship, Luise
continues to conduct mathematical
research.
“Mathematicians are like oak trees,
producing thousands of acorns, of
which only a few will develop into
trees later on,” she says. “Just as one
can’t tell an oak tree only to produce
those acorns that will develop into
trees, one can’t tell mathematicians to
develop only those theories useful for
the Einsteins of the future.”
For Luise, mathematics was never
work. Rather, it was her calling and
true passion.
Luise and her family on her 80th
“As a musician would continue to birthday in 2014 in Ithaca, New York
create music, I stay involved with
mathematics,” she says. “It just fits
with me, and there’s no limit to it.”

Luise with audience members after presenting in Rio de Janeiro.