"My parents believed that education was the only avenue through which an African American man or woman could better th…"

"Some of my fellow graduate students did all they could to help and encourage me. They included me in most of their ac…"

"In short, my life in mathematics was, and still to a great extent is, shaped by opening doors. I have always taken ad…"

"The difficulties which arise from assuming a direct borrowing by the Greeks from India fall away on the assumption of…"

"Die Schwierigkeiten, die einer direkten griechischen Entlehnung aus Indien entgegenstehen, fallen bei der Annahme von…"

"I remember that the advanced calculus course was taught by a graduate student and met at 7 A.M. every morning, and no…"

"Was my vacuum created because I was black or female or both?"

"She just explained to me that this was the way the world was, and we had to accept it, and there was nothing we can d…"

"In the search for knowledge in science and engineering, the worst intellectual crime one can commit is to prejudice o…"

"Educational opportunities for most minority youth, and hence their educational attainments, lag behind the chances, c…"