Math-Life Balance
Math-Life Balance
Mura Yakerson
Interview with Maria Chudnovsky
56 minutes Posted Aug 30, 2021 at 5:55 am.
teaser
respect for math at home
math helps when you don’t speak the local language
building a world around a research problem
explaining math to a broad audience
giving a talk at NASA
applying graph theory to your wedding
problem solving vs learning
being bad at math olympiads 
working with your own students
experience of doing a PhD
memorizing math 
studying physics vs math
maintaining a work-life balance
everyone has self-doubts
first time teaching a class
final advice
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Maria Chudnovsky is a professor at Princeton University, working in graph theory and combinatorics. In this interview, Maria shares her personal experiences: learning Hebrew from math lessons, giving a talk at NASA, using math at her own wedding, and many more!
Maria's homepage: http://web.math.princeton.edu/~mchudnov/
Photo: from Maria's homepage
The essay we mentioned:
W.T. Gowers "The two cultures of mathematics"
https://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/~wtg10/2cultures.pdf