Word: mathematician
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...chair, casually draping his arm around the chair. He is barefoot, wearing a T-shirt and jeans. A pair of large round dark-rimmed glasses sits on his face, right below the broad expanse of his forehead. Short curly dark hair hugs tightly to his bulbous head. The quintessential mathematician...
...During freshman year, everyone was asking each other, 'Where are you from?' Now the question is 'Where are you going?' It seems oddly poignant and symmetric," remarks Kedlaya. "I'm a mathematician and I like symmetry, so that made an impression...
...American from the lovely garden state of "New Joisie," I found myself living with a wacky West Coast liberal from that mythical state of California--a place whose name can be loosely translated as "land of earthquakes and elective cosmetic surgery." Across the hall from us lived a brilliant mathematician from Ohio and a talented tenor from West Virginia. (Our friend from West Virginia was one of four Asian-American residents of his county--the other three being his father, his mother and his older sister...
Taylor, who calls himself a "pure mathematician" and has done work in number theory and representation theory, played a significant role in developing the recent solution to Fermat's last theorem, a problem that had baffled mathematicians since the seventeenth century...
Benedict H. Gross '71, professor of mathematics, commended Taylor's skills as an instructor as well as a mathematician...