On completing my degree, I started a Ph.D. in statistics, although I knew very little about the topic. My supervisor was Professor Harry Pitt, who was an excellent pure mathematician and probabilist.
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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.
Ultimately, my Ph.D. is in mathematical physics, focusing on quantum field theory and curved space-time, and I worked with Stephen Hawking.
I was a mathematics major and really into math.
Early in my career, I wanted to be a mathematician.
I was particularly good at math and science.
I spent 10 years working on a math Ph.D., and I finally got kind of good at it.
My interests started about in science and in mathematics; I always thought I was going to be a mathematician.
I studied economics and made it my career for two reasons. The subject was and is intellectually fascinating and challenging, particularly to someone with taste and talent for theoretical reasoning and quantitative analysis.
I was graduated in 1940 with a degree of Bachelor of Science in Social Science but a major in Mathematics, a paradoxical combination that was prognostic of my future interests.
My mother was an economics professor. I'm proficient in math, and statistics, game theory, symbolic logic and all of that.