"Why don't they study mathematics, or something else that would give them better things to do?"

A couple of years on, I'm in university studying mathematics.

He received a military education and went to Paris in 1748 to study mathematics.

She also studied mathematics and later computer science in the 1970s.

He wanted to study mathematics, but his family could not afford to pay for lessons.

At university he changed courses to study philosophy and mathematics.

At the same time, he studied mathematics and published a successful book on the subject.

While living with her sister, she studied mathematics and philosophy.

In 1670 he went to Leiden to study mathematics at the university.

Her mother died in 1932, while Bourgeois was studying mathematics.