Mathematics Was HARD, Dull WORK. Geography Pleased Me More. For Dancing I Was Quite Enthusiastic.

The ABSTRACT Analysis Of The WORLD By MATHEMATICS And PHYSICS Rests On The Concepts Of Space And Time.

If Mathematics Is To Be Understood Widely, We NEED To Emphasise Its Elegance And Its Applications. SOMETIMES It Seems That Universities Want To Emphasise How DIFFICULT It Is!

I Chose To Deal With The Science Of Cryptography. Cryptography Began In Mathematics. Codes Were DEVELOPED, Even From Caesar's Time, Based On Number THEORY And MATHEMATICAL Principles. I DECIDED To Use Those Principles And Designed A Work That Is Encoded.

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.

There's Something Uniquely INTERESTING About Buddhism And Mathematics, PARTICULARLY About QUANTUM PHYSICS, And Where They Meet. That Has Fascinated Us For A Long TIME.

In LIBYA, I Did Well At School Because I Was Clever. In Egyptian Public School, I GOT The Highest Marks For The Basest Of REASONS. And In The American School, I Struggled. Everything - Mathematics, The Sciences, Pottery, SWIMMING - Had To Be Conducted In A Language I Hardly KNEW And That Was Neither Spoken In The Streets Nor At Home.

I Think You Can Get BETTER In Mathematics On A School Level, But When You're Talking About Being A Mathematician, I Think That's Definitely A GIFT Of Genes Or WHATEVER, You KNOW? Whatever Your POOL Is.

It Is Not Of The ESSENCE Of MATHEMATICS To Be Conversant With The IDEAS Of NUMBER And QUANTITY.