I was very much on the mathematical side, where you probably do your best work before you're forty-five. Having passed that significant date, I thought I would do something else.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I don't feel any different than I did when I was 40. But I realize mathematically, I'm equidistant between that and 80. I'll keep doing this for a while, but I'm not going to be one of these people who hang on just for the sake of being on the air.
Almost 50 years old now, some 30 years after graduation, I look at my Caltech classmates and conclude that math whizzes do not take over the world.
I spent 10 years working on a math Ph.D., and I finally got kind of good at it.
I was at my best at a little past forty, when I was a professor at Oxford.
By seventh grade, I was committed to mathematics.
I stayed away from mathematics not so much because I knew it would be hard work as because of the amount of time I knew it would take, hours spent in a field where I was not a natural.
Mathematics is as old as Man.
I wasn't that good at science, and I gave up on math long before I should have. I like to think if I were in school today that would be different.
By all means, have you give great attention to your arithmetic, as its advantages are so many and important.
Plus, I was a math and science whiz from my first introduction to the subjects.
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