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“The Day She Proved It” (at the Intelligencer!)
The story “The Day She Proved It” has been accepted to appear at The Mathematical Intelligencer, so now, after some few edits, you can read it over there!
The TikTok Exam
In my TikTok account, you can find a series of (comedy) videos that portray a student taking an incredibly difficult and confusing exam, which I call “the TikTok exam.” The exam is now available as a PDF, and can be found here! Enjoy.
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I am a Professor in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Connecticut. My research focuses on arithmetic geometry, which is at the cross roads of number theory and algebraic geometry.
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