Word: mathes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Kedlaya does not live for math alone...
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...
...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...
...suggestion of one of his teachers, who recognized his talent, Kedlaya entered his first math contest in fifth grade, a Maryland state competition meant for eight graders...
...idea that there was competitive math like the soccer team. I had no idea that there was something like the math team," he says...