Word: kedlaya
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Born in Washington, D.C., Kedlaya now resides in Silver Spring, Maryland. His family does not have the technical background one might expect: His father is a photographer, his mother a homemaker. Kedlaya has one sister, Kishori, a first-year at Harvard who will probably concentrate in physics and philosophy...
Hanging from his belt is a black two-by-three inch beeper given to him by the Red Cross. Apparently, when Kedlaya isn't tackling the latest math problem, he's driving an ambulance-like vehicle around Boston, helping disaster victims with housing, food, and first aid. As director of disaster services for Friends of the Red Cross, Kedlaya manages 20 Harvard students, dispatching them to fires where people are in need of help. He tells me that he last received a call on his beeper just 10 minutes...
Music seems to be his other passion. Kedlaya has played violin in the Toscanini Chamber Orchestra and sung with the Harvard-Radcliffe Chorus and the Glee Club. One of his favorite activities this year was learning Indian film songs for his Hindu class. And he fondly recalls the spring that he sang Elvis songs with a bunch of Hungarians in a karaoke bar in Budapest. Of course, he was in Budapest for a math program...
...beeper goes off. Kedlaya squelches it and looks down at the digital display. "A fire in Quincy," he says. My eyes light up in alarm. "Quincy, Mass., not Quincy House," he reassures me. We continue...
...first became interested in the world of mathematics. He pauses to reflect. Then he begins rocking back and forth in his chair like a bobbing pigeon. It is one of Kedlaya's tell-tale tics, as if the excess energy from his brain is powering the rest of his body...