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When I was about thirteen, the library was going to get 'Calculus for the Practical Man.' By this time I knew, from reading the encyclopedia, that calculus was an important and interesting subject, and I ought to learn it.

I did not take a calculus course until my second year of college.

I don't believe anybody can really grasp everything that's even in one textbook.

I read one or two other books which gave me a background in mathematics other than logic.

Books have this function that help me to understand the work I've done, to wrap it up.

Science is cool! But it's easy for that to get lost in textbooks sometimes.

At Tenafly High, I was lucky to have some dedicated teachers; I'm especially indebted to my calculus instructor, Francis Piersa, who opened my eyes to the striking beauty of mathematics.

Newton, of course, was the inventor of differential calculus so his place in the tale is quite special.

I got an assistantship in physics at the University of Illinois, and I tore up my steno books.

I was more interested in skating and the girls and traveling than I was in calculus.