Country Quote by William Klein

I was fortunate to grow up in a middle-class home with two hardworking parents who enjoyed both reading and mathematics.

— Freeman A. Hrabowski III

I travelled round the world giving demonstrations of my talents. In every country, I performed for students, professors, teachers, bankers, accountants, and even laymen…

— Shakuntala Devi

My brother is a genius. When we went to Italy, he was on the local television channel as a prodigy, who could solve very…

— Pavel Durov

By the end of an intense four years at UCLA, I had co-authored a new math proof, which the media, in fact, loved. As…

— Danica McKellar

I noticed there were so many people, especially women, who would come up to me having recognized me from TV and say, 'I heard…

— Danica McKellar

Mathematics was hard, dull work, I thought; geography pleased me more. For my other studies, as well as for dancing, I was quite enthusiastic.

— John James Audubon

I went to an all-girls Catholic high school. The three things that they focused on were reading, writing, and arithmetic. My goodness, this is…

— Ursula Burns

I was very lucky to be born into a very academic family. I was well-read, well-trained in mathematics. I had lots of advantages to…

— Abhijit Banerjee

Certainly the best times were when I was alone with mathematics, free of ambition and pretense, and indifferent to the world.

— Robert Langlands

In fact, I barely missed being number one in France in both schools. In particular I did very well in mathematical problems.

— Benoit Mandelbrot

You know, I loved math. My mom was a math teacher.

— Joan Cusack

I have met a lot of women who are good at math.

— Arundhati Bhattacharya