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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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"I have in later years taken to Euclid, Whitehead, Bertrand Russell, in an elemental way."
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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."
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"The study of mathematics, like the Nile, begins in minuteness but ends in magnificence."
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"I was on the mathematics faculty at M.I.T. from 1951 through until I resigned in the spring of 1959."
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"In mathematics we have long since drawn the rein, and given over a hopeless race."
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"The flowering of geometry."
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"The square root of I is I."
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"The definition of a good mathematical problem is the mathematics it generates rather than the problem itself."
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"Mathematics doesn't care about those beyond the numbers."
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"I tried to fit it in with some previous broad conceptual understanding of some part of mathematics that would clarify the particular problem I was thinking about."
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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."
Being
"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."
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"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."
Parents
"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."
Sports
"About 1900 my parents came to the United States as children from what was then the Polish area of Russia."
Children
"I learned quickly, as I tell my graduate students now, there are no answers in the back of the book when the equipment doesn't work or the measurements look strange."
Work
"I was also interested in chemistry, but my parents were not willing to buy me a chemistry set."
Parents
"My parents regarded school teachers as higher beings, as did many immigrants."
Parents
"Natures' curriculum cannot be changed."
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"Going to school and working for good marks, indeed working for very good marks, was a serious business."
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