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"Whatever the course, whether the course was boring or interesting to me, whether I was talented in mathematics or not talented in languages, my parents expected A's."
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"Few rounds.... I am damn good mathematician!2 999 999 999 999 999 999 + 11 999 999 999 999 999 999 = 14 999 999 999 999 999 998."
"I was fortunate to find an extraordinary mathematics and applied mathematics program in Toronto."
"The definition of a good mathematical problem is the mathematics it generates rather than the problem itself."
"Increasingly, the mathematics will demand the courage to face its implications."
"Well, some mathematics problems look simple, and you try them for a year or so, and then you try them for a hundred years, and it turns out that they're extremely hard to solve."
"I tell them that if they will occupy themselves with the study of mathematics they will find in it the best remedy against the lusts of the flesh."
"My mathematics is simple: one plus one = one."
"The longer mathematics lives the more abstract - and therefore, possibly also the more practical - it becomes."
"Mathematics doesn't care about those beyond the numbers."
"Mathematics is a game played according to certain simple rules with meaningless marks on paper."
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"A parent being called to the school because their child had misbehaved was as serious as a parent being called to the police station because their child had robbed a bank."
"I was also interested in chemistry, but my parents were not willing to buy me a chemistry set."
"The remoteness of my parents from the schools, so unfashionable today, was often painful for me, but I learned early to deal with an outside and sometimes hard world."
"This was good training for research, because large parts of experimental work are sometimes boring or involve the use of skills in which one is not particularly gifted."
"Going to school and working for good marks, indeed working for very good marks, was a serious business."
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