Why did you want to become a mathematician in the first place ?

Question: Why did you want to become a mathematician in the first place ?
- Keywords:
  mathematician
Asked by anon-38498 on 12 Oct 2022.
- Harold Berjamin answered on 12 Oct 2022:
  
  Actually, I didn’t explicitly want to become a mathematician in the first place. It just happened out of a desire to learn new things!
- Emma Govan answered on 12 Oct 2022:
  
  I loved maths in school, and especially after reading a book by Simon Singh which talked about maths in the TV show the Simpsons, I thought it was so cool that we could use maths in so many places!
- Maja Popovic answered on 13 Oct 2022:
  
  Basically, because I loved maths at school.
  
  I even spent one month in a high school dedicated to biology and chemistry (which I started because I thought I would like to become a doctor), but then I missed maths very much so I changed.