Arnold thanks his family for their birthday gifts to him. With some of his birthday money, he bought Men of Mathematics, 1937, by E. T. Bell, and a biography of Santiago Ramón y Cajal, who was a 1906 Nobel prize winner as a Spanish scientist, pathologist, and histologist specializing in neuroanatomy and the central nervous system.
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