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"In my schooling through high school, I excelled mainly in chemistry, physics and mathematics."
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"Mathematics is a game played according to certain simple rules with meaningless marks on paper."
"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."
"To those who ask what the infinitely small quantity in mathematics is, we answer that it is actually zero. Hence there are not so many mysteries hidden in this concept as they are usually believed to be."
"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."
"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."
"Everyone knows what a curve is, until he has studied enough mathematics to become confused through the countless number of possible exceptions."
"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."
"I was fortunate to find an extraordinary mathematics and applied mathematics program in Toronto."
"The longer mathematics lives the more abstract - and therefore, possibly also the more practical - it becomes."
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"My father, who had previously been a civil engineer, died in the great influenza epidemic of 1918."
"The research included neutron resonance spectroscopy, the angular distribution of pion elastic and inelastic scattering on nuclei with optical model fitting."
"In my schooling through high school, I excelled mainly in chemistry, physics and mathematics."
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