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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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"No more Lastrygonians. Ella fluttered down and landed next to them. "Six minus six is zero. Spears are good for subtraction, yep."
"My mathematics is simple: one plus one = one."
"I finally reached the conclusion that mathematics was the study I was best fitted to follow, though I did not clearly see in what way I should turn the subject to account."
"I was fortunate to find an extraordinary mathematics and applied mathematics program in Toronto."
"You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality."
"Mathematics doesn't care about those beyond the numbers."
"The Theory of Groups is a branch of mathematics in which one does something to something and then compares the result with the result obtained from doing the same thing to something else, or something else to the same thing."
""Obvious" is the most dangerous word in mathematics."
"I went to Princeton from Amherst, where I split my interests between mathematics and philosophy."
"In mathematics we have long since drawn the rein, and given over a hopeless race."
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"There were two free public libraries within walking distance of my home; I remember taking six books home from every visit, the limit set by the library."
"They wanted me to play more sports because they were acutely sensitive to their children being one hundred percent American, and they believed that all Americans played sports and loved sports."
"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."
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