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I had a liberal arts education at Amherst College where I had two majors, mathematics and philosophy.

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.

My early education was in the public school system of Omaha, where, retrospectively, I realize that my high school training served me in good stead for the basic subjects of mathematics, English, foreign languages and history.

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

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

Everyone knows what a curve is, until he has studied enough mathematics to become confused through the countless number of possible exceptions.

I was fortunate to find an extraordinary mathematics and applied mathematics program in Toronto.

Many who have had an opportunity of knowing any more about mathematics confuse it with arithmetic, and consider it an arid science. In reality, however, it is a science which requires a great amount of imagination.

We must always emphasize research and development of science and mathematics, and I can think of no better way to achieve this than through our future in space.

Consequently he who wishes to attain to human perfection, must therefore first study Logic, next the various branches of Mathematics in their proper order, then Physics, and lastly Metaphysics.

But however measurable, there is much more life in music than mathematics or logic ever dreamed of.

Music at times is more like perfume than mathematics.

Being exposed to theory, stimulated by a basic love of concepts and mathematics, was a marvelous experience.

My interest in the sciences started with mathematics in the very beginning, and later with chemistry in early high school and the proverbial home chemistry set.

The mathematics of rhythm are universal. They don't belong to any particular culture.

It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort to mathematics, though she is still forbidden to resort to physics or chemistry.

We especially need imagination in science. It is not all mathematics, nor all logic, but it is somewhat beauty and poetry.

I did not have a very literary background. I came to poetry from the sciences and mathematics, and also through an interest in Japanese and Chinese poetry in translation.

But mathematics is the sister, as well as the servant, of the arts and is touched by the same madness and genius.

Mathematics are the result of mysterious powers which no one understands, and which the unconscious recognition of beauty must play an important part. Out of an infinity of designs a mathematician chooses one pattern for beauty's sake and pulls it down to earth.