(Interview by Mireia Martínez i Sellarès) Anano Basilaia is a Mathematics student from Georgia, currently doing her master’s in Mathematical Sciences at Utrecht University. Since Georgia is going to be hosting the 10th edition of the EGMO in 2021 and Anano has competed in mathematical olympiads herself, we thought it …
(Interview by Mireia Martínez i Sellarès) Elena Paniagua is a Mexican mathematician who works in finance consulting. She got her Bachelor’s degree from the UNAM, the National Autonomous University in Mexico and did her Master’s in Finance Mathematics at Ulm University in Germany. She is currently living in the Netherlands …
(Interview by Mireia Martínez i Sellarès) Marithania Silvero Casanova is a Spanish mathematician from Huelva (Spain) who works in Knot Theory. She has been recently awarded with Premio Vicent Caselles, a Prize given by the Spanish Royal Society of Mathematics and the Foundation BBVA for her research in Mathematics. In …
(Text by Mireia Martínez i Sellarès) Dorothy Vaughan (née Johnson) was born on September 20, 1910 in Kansas City, Missouri and died on November 10, 2008 in Hampton, Virginia. She was an American mathematician and programmer who worked as a computer at the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA), the …
(Text by Mireia Martínez i Sellarès.) María Josefa Wonenburger Planells was born on July 19, 1927 in Montrove-Oleiros, Spain. Her family owned a foundry, so they wished for María to study engineering and continue with the family business. Yet, her family always respected her love for mathematics and supported her …
Last week, we introduced professor Marie Françoise Ouedraogo, a mathematician from Burkina Faso. She was so kind as to answer some questions from us via email, which we share in today’s post. EGMO 2020: What motivated you to do not only one, but two doctoral theses? What brought you to …
(Text by Jenneke Krüger) Marie Françoise Ouedraogo grew up in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. She enjoyed doing maths in primary and secondary school and obtained good results without too much effort. So she studied mathematics at the University of Ouagadougou, where she wrote her first doctoral thesis on Lie Superalgebras, with …
(Text by Mar Curcó Iranzo) Marie-Sophie Germain was born on April 1, 1776 in Paris. She was the daughter of a family of successful silk merchants and grew up into the Parisian bourgeois, one of the highest social classes of Paris at that time. Germain was introduced to political and …
(Interview by Marieke van den Wegen and Mireia Martínez i Sellarès) Utrecht, September 2019. We asked Karma to explain the field she works on and the sort of research she does, in words that can be understood by high school students. K: I am sitting in the Probability group but …
(Text by Mireia Martínez i Sellarès. Interview by Marieke van den Wegen and Mireia Martínez i Sellarès) Mathematician Karma Dajani was born in Lebanon, in the Middle East. She explains: “I went to American schools, so I had a good education.” Karma loved math from the beginning and she was …
