Has It Really Been Almost Forty Years?

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... since I started my mathematics studies at Helsinki University, Finland, in 1973!

These are recent images of my base at the time during my six study years 

there - The Porthania building - where I attended mathematics lectures working 

on my graduate and postgraduate degrees. My other sessions were held at 

various other locations in Helsinki at Computer Science, Physics and Chemistry 

lecture halls and labs.

Porthania was designed (including interiors and furnishings) in 1952 by architect 

Aarne Ervi (who had been an assistant to Alvar Aalto), and it was completed in  

1957, sixteen years before I started my studies there.

"Jussi Tiainen is Finland's most prominent architectural photographer. The 

Washington Post calls Mr. Tiainen "the chronicle par excellence" of the 

architecture of his home city Helsinki. The newspaper describes his contribution 

to the understanding of architecture as follows: "Tiainen's intense perceptivity is 

a lesson in itself - through his eyes, we can sharpen our own responses to 

architecture's complexity and beauty."     jussitiainen.com