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My father was really good with math. It's a funny thing, I don't remember my father or my mother being so mechanical-minded. My father always wanted to be a doctor, but he came from a really poor family in Georgia, and there was no way he was going to be a doctor.

I was a mathematics major and really into math.

I did math in school, obviously. And I loved all my math teachers.

My father had very little formal education.

Math was always hard for me, but my dad would come up with ways of making it fun. I remember playing 'Number Munchers' on our old Mac... That counts as math class, right?

My father would not pay for me to study anything but engineering or math in college.

My dad was an English professor.

I was particularly good at math and science.