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Nobody challenges me. I challenge myself.
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Nobody
Challenge
Myself Challenges Me
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Numbers have life; they’re not just symbols on paper.
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Life
Numbers
Paper
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Numbers have life; they're not just symbols on paper.
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Numbers
Paper
Symbols
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You develop a sympathy for all human beings when you travel a lot.
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Sympathy
Travel
Human Beings
Humans
Beings
Develop
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Solving wits and puzzles, in a way, helps to develop wit and ingenuity.
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Ingenuity
Puzzles
Wit
Develop
Helps
Solving
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Students shy away from Maths, but in reality Maths is the best friend of man.
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Best Friend
Shy
Students
Maths
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I relax completely when I'm at rest. I don't think of numbers; I don't think of work.
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Numbers
Relax
Thinking
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What is mathematics? It is only a systematic effort of solving puzzles posed by nature.
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Effort
Mathematics
Puzzles
Systematic
Solving
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Immorality does not consist in being different. It consists in not allowing others to be so.
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Being Different
Doe
Immorality
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Why do children dread mathematics? Because of the wrong approach. Because it is looked at as a subject.
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Approach
Children
Dread
Mathematics
Wrong
Looked
Subject
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Primes are the important main ingredient of numbers, for every number is either a prime or a product of primes.
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Prime
Number
Ingredient
Main
Product
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I haven't had any formal education. Through the grace of god, I am gifted in mathematics and the English language.
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English Language
Formal
Formal Education
Gifted
Grace
English
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I have a particular affection for zero because it was some of my countrymen who first gave it the status of a number.
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Zero
Affection
Countrymen
Status
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Without mathematics, there’s nothing you can do. Everything around you is mathematics. Everything around you is numbers.
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Science
Math
Numbers
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Without mathematics, there's nothing you can do. Everything around you is mathematics. Everything around you is numbers.
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Mathematics
Numbers
Everything
Nothing
Around
You
Without
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The concept of zero is attributed to the Hindus. The Hindus were also the first to use zero in the way it is used today.
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Zero
Attributed
Hindus
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I cannot transfer my abilities to anyone, but I can think of quicker ways with which to help people develop numerical aptitude.
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Aptitude
Develop
Help People
People Help I Can
Numerical
Quicker
Transfer
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Education is not just about going to school and getting a degree. It's about widening your knowledge and absorbing the truth about life.
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Education
Knowledge
Truth
Degrees
School
Truth About Life
Just
Life Education Knowledge
Absorb
Going
Degree
Getting
Widening
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At three, I fell in love with numbers. It was sheer ecstasy for me to do sums and get the right answers. Numbers were toys with which I could play.
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Answers
Ecstasy
Numbers
Sheer
Three
Toys
Sums
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I don't even possess a car. I ride in auto-rickshaws because I like to be a part of the masses. I don't want to single myself out as someone up and above.
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Car
Single
Above
Masses
Possess
Ride
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If you do not use a muscle or any part of the body, it tends to become atrophic. So is the case with the brain. The more you use it, the better it becomes.
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Body
Brain
Use
Muscle
Case
Tends
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Knowing more about numbers and being acquainted with them will not only enrich our lives but also contribute towards managing our day to day affairs much better.
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Numbers
Our Lives
Acquainted
Affairs
Contribute
Enrich
Towards
Day Better Will
Managing
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I was performing at a New Jersey high school, and I asked a class of 2,000 students, 'How many of you love mathematics?' and only one hand went up. And that was the hand of the maths teacher!
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Teacher
Class
High School
Jersey
New Jersey
Performing
Asked
Hand
Maths
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I have written a book called 'In the Wonderland of Numbers.' It's about a young girl, Neha, who is very poor in mathematics, but in a series of illusory experiences, she becomes a great mathematician.
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Girl
Book
Illusory
Mathematician
Numbers
Wonderland
Young Girl
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Many go through life afraid of numbers and upset by numbers. They would rather amble along through life miscounting, miscalculating and, in general, mismanaging their worldly affairs than make friends with numbers.
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Numbers
Upset
Worldly
Affairs
Afraid
General
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I travelled round the world giving demonstrations of my talents. In every country, I performed for students, professors, teachers, bankers, accountants, and even laymen who knew very little, or nothing at all, about mathematics.
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Accountants
Professors
Talents
Demonstrations
Round
Performed
Travelled
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I have been running maths clubs for children completely free. In my building in Bangalore, I conduct maths clubs for several months, and every child who attended the club was poor in mathematics and is now showing brilliant results.
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Running
Brilliant
Clubs
Months
Poor
Child
Free
Attended
Club
Conduct
Maths
Several
Showing
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