Word: mathematician
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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...
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...
...able to offer him advice on his immigration problems. That led to a seven-year correspondence. From November 1988 to November 1995, Ted wrote to Sanchez as often as eight times a year in neatly penned, grammatical Spanish. Ted wrote mostly of his poverty and isolation. With a mathematician's precision he described his finances down to the penny. "As to my poverty, I have $53.01 exactly, barely enough to stave off hunger this winter without eating rabbits." At Christmastime 1994, Ted sent Sanchez an intricately carved wooden tube marked with a Latin motto, Montana Semper Liberi (Mountain...