Interview with Maria Chudnovsky

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: Photo: from Maria's homepage The essay we mentioned: W.T. Gowers "The two cultures of mathematics" 0:00 teaser 0:29 respect for math at home 2:43 math helps when you don’t speak the local language 6:42 building a world around a research problem 11:37 explaining math to a broad audience 16:00 giving a talk at NASA 19:42 applying graph theory to your wedding 23:16 problem solving vs learning 27:58 being bad at math olympiads 30:40 working with your own students 33:23 experience of doing a PhD 36:02 memorizing math 37:55 studying physics vs math 43:43 maintaining a work-life balance 49:08 everyone has self-doubts 50:54 first time teaching a class 55:46 final advice

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Interview with Maria Chudnovsky is an episode from Math-Life Balance by Mura Yakerson.

This episode is 00:56:23 long.

This episode was published on Aug 30, 2021.

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