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I wanted to become a mathematician, physicist or astronomer.

My interests started about in science and in mathematics; I always thought I was going to be a mathematician.

I was really quite geeky at school. At one point, I wanted to be prime minister or a mathematician.

I was a mathematics major and really into math.

I was never strong at maths, but I eventually got onto a university physics/astronomy course, and that led on to my Ph.D. and eventual employment.

I was going to go back to college and become a math teacher.

When I was little, I wanted to be an astronomer, but that didn't happen.

I had the idea that it would be wonderful to be a physicist or a mathematician maybe 500 years ago around the time of Newton when there were really fundamental things just lying around to be discovered.

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.