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"On Life and Math", Chapter 4: Bonn Hiver (Part 3 of 3)
After my summer conference travels, I felt even more desolate.
May 11, 2025
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Aaron Mazel-Gee
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"On Life and Math", Chapter 4: Bonn Hiver (Part 2 of 3)
That summer found me on a whirlwind 2.5-month tour of math conferences around Europe — traveling (from Bonn, natürlich) to Austria, France, Denmark…
May 4, 2025
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Aaron Mazel-Gee
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"On Life and Math", Chapter 4: Bonn Hiver (Part 1 of 3)
Starting in the winter of my second year of grad school, I spent a year stationed at the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics (MPIM) in Bonn, Germany…
Apr 27, 2025
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Aaron Mazel-Gee
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"On Life and Math", Chapter 3: A Big Berkeley Ocean (Part 2 of 2)
It was at Berkeley, though, that my math-bestness began to slip.
Apr 20, 2025
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Aaron Mazel-Gee
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"On Life and Math", Chapter 3: A Big Berkeley Ocean (Part 1 of 2)
In my final year of undergrad, I applied to just four grad schools, all of them top-ranked: Harvard, Yale, Princeton, and MIT.
Apr 13, 2025
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Aaron Mazel-Gee
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"On Life and Math", Chapter 2: A Little Brown Pond
When it came time to apply to college, I got the same question over and over: “It’s great that you’re so good at math, but what do you want to do with…
Apr 6, 2025
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Aaron Mazel-Gee
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"On Life and Math", Chapter 1: The Best Beginnings
I was always the best at math.
Mar 30, 2025
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Aaron Mazel-Gee
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"On Life and Math", Chapter 0: Introduction
… and so, despite my intense and undying love for mathematics, I decided to leave academia.
Mar 23, 2025
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Aaron Mazel-Gee
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