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I abandoned chemistry to concentrate on mathematics and physics. In 1942, I travelled to Cambridge to take the scholarship examination at Trinity College, received an award and entered the university in October 1943.


John Pople


#award #cambridge #chemistry #college #concentrate

Reading music is something that's inherently hateful to me. It makes music like mathematics.


Robert Quine


#inherently #like #makes #mathematics #me

In my schooling through high school, I excelled mainly in chemistry, physics and mathematics.


James Rainwater


#excelled #high #high school #i #mainly

It is not of the essence of mathematics to be conversant with the ideas of number and quantity.


George Boole


#ideas #mathematics #number #quantity

For scholars and laymen alike it is not philosophy but active experience in mathematics itself that can alone answer the question: What is mathematics?


Richard Courant


#alike #alone #answer #experience #itself

I read one or two other books which gave me a background in mathematics other than logic.


Stephen Cole Kleene


#books #gave #i #logic #mathematics

I went to Princeton from Amherst, where I split my interests between mathematics and philosophy.


Stephen Cole Kleene


#between #i #interests #mathematics #philosophy

Thus, in a sense, mathematics has been most advanced by those who distinguished themselves by intuition rather than by rigorous proofs.


Felix Klein


#been #distinguished #intuition #mathematics #most

An early fascination with higher mathematics at the university level blossomed into speculative thinking that could provide a basis for dealing with economic issues.


Lawrence R. Klein


#blossomed #could #dealing #early #economic

The completion of my undergraduate training at the University of California (Berkeley) provided just the needed touches of rigor at advanced levels in both economics and mathematics.


Lawrence R. Klein


#berkeley #both #california #completion #economics






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