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Usually, girls weren't encouraged to go to college and major in math and science. My high school calculus teacher, Ms. Paz Jensen, made math appealing and motivated me to continue studying it in college.

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

Mathematics was hard, dull work. Geography pleased me more. For dancing I was quite enthusiastic.

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.

My first degree came years before my second. I had wanted to be a physicist, but I flunked calculus.

I was a mathematics major and really into math.

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

I didn't think that college math was for me. I didn't think I'd be able to hack it. And that perception of math not being for girls, not being for girls who see themselves as socially well adjusted has got to change.

I was going to engineering school but fell in love with physics.

I was very slow in maths, geometry I actually enjoyed.