Mathematicians are fascinated by the elegance and beauty of the ideas behind mathematical theories. Their personal stories are equally important and interesting as their discoveries.
Visualizing mathematics can be difficult. Especially for non-mathematicians, who may only remember confusing formulas, the shape of a parabola, or a right-angled triangle with sides 'a', 'b', and 'c'. Marieke Drost teaches mathematicians how to communicate using storytelling.
Rafael Prieto-Curiel is a mathematician and a faculty member at the Complexity Science Hub in Vienna, Austria. His research focuses on crime, mobility, migration and urban dynamics. We interviewed Rafael to learn about his story.
Nelly Litvak is a participant of the Probability and Statistics of Discrete Structures (PSDS) program at the Simons-Laufer Mathematical Science Institute (SLMath), Spring 2025. This blog is part 3 in a trilogy of blogs. ‘So, what have you been doing 4 months in Berkeley?’ Accidentally, I bumped into an old friend on the last evening […]
Living in a "fraternity house" as a researcher? It is possible! Frank den Hollander writes about living together with Remco Van Der Hofstad and Shankar Bhamidi during the Probability and Statistics of Discrete Structures program at SLMath.
Remco van der Hofstad is the lead organizer of the Probability and Statistics of Discrete Structures program at the Simons-Laufer Mathematical Science Institute (SLMath), Spring 2025. This blog is part 1 in a trilogy of blogs. Yes, it’s happening! We have arrived at SLMath! How did we get here in the first place? We started […]
