Her qualifying exam was in six weeks. Her advisor had given her a reading list, and at the very top, underlined twice, was: Foundations of Complex Analysis by S. Ponnusamy.
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Elias shook his head. “No. The footnotes .” Her qualifying exam was in six weeks