Assistants Quote by Theodore Kaczynski

I was a mathematics major and really into math.

— Mary Callahan Erdoes

I always like to make explicit the fact that before I went off not too long ago to fight in the trenches, I was…

— Tom Lehrer

I've been an entrepreneur, a writer, a food correspondent. I might have been an architect - but I'm bad at maths.

— Prue Leith

I was never strong at maths, but I eventually got onto a university physics/astronomy course, and that led on to my Ph.D. and eventual…

— Alastair Reynolds

My mother was an English teacher who decided to become a math teacher, and she used me as a guinea pig at home. My…

— Freeman A. Hrabowski III

I'm a mathematician, basically. What I do is look around for problems where I can find useful applications for mathematics. All I do, really,…

— Freeman Dyson

I worked in a number of high schools in New York, and I wound up at Stuyvesant High School, which is known nationally for…

— Frank McCourt

By keenly confronting the enigmas that surround us, and by considering and analyzing the observations that I had made, I ended up in the…

— M. C. Escher

After college, I became a geologist, mapping what lay beneath the earth's surface. I thought I had my life pretty figured out and all…

— John Hickenlooper

Early in my career, I wanted to be a mathematician.

— Jerry Buss

I spent 10 years working on a math Ph.D., and I finally got kind of good at it.

— Jerry McNerney

I had accepted a job being a math teacher for Teach For America. So, that's what I would have done at least in the…

— Chris Baio