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What's great is that because math is such a universal language, really, our fans come in all shapes and sizes, all ages and genders and races and backgrounds and cultures.

Over the years, we settled into American life and embraced it fully. But having come from a different culture, I didn't know the boundaries of American culture. Which is that, as a girl, you didn't play football or soccer at lunch with the boys, and to be cool, you didn't get into math Olympiad.

Mathematics is a place where you can do things which you can't do in the real world.

Mathematics has beauty and romance. It's not a boring place to be, the mathematical world. It's an extraordinary place; it's worth spending time there.

We in science are spoiled by the success of mathematics. Mathematics is the study of problems so simple that they have good solutions.

Mathematics is written for mathematicians.

In American math classes, we teach a lot of concepts poorly over many years. In the Asian systems they teach you very few concepts very well over a few years.

For the things of this world cannot be made known without a knowledge of mathematics.

The mathematics of rhythm are universal. They don't belong to any particular culture.

Mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we are talking about, nor whether what we are saying is true.