And this is why its very hard to name a famous Spanish (or Hispanic!) mathematician!
I can’t come up with one.
Maybe someone else can.
Everyone I try to come up with turns out to be Italian.
FWIW, began about a year ago. http://lathisms.org/
And this is why its very hard to name a famous Spanish (or Hispanic!) mathematician!
I can’t come up with one.
Maybe someone else can.
Everyone I try to come up with turns out to be Italian.
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*I* can name one, but she’s a mixed race family member of Hispanic descent, is a school teacher and shall therefore remain anonymous. At two years old this child ran into the house asking me for 5 popsicles. 5? when did this kid learn to count ...I’d raised her and hadn’t yet taught her to count! She’s only 2! So, I asked her who was out there and she named them all but one. Herself. So, I gave her 6 popsicles and out the door she went to distribute them.
At the time I was in college (non-traditional full time student) and I didn’t have a sitter for her, so I brought her along to two of my classes. Humanitites and Algebra. She sat like a tiny adult and never said a word. The algebra professor and I joked together about her becoming a math wiz later.
She went to kindergarten at a private school where she received the best education I’d ever seen in modern day. by grade one however, we had to place her in public school. Before the year was over, she was doing multiplication and long division. By 4th grade, her face was buried in my college textbooks...teaching HERSELF algebra.
She went on to become an award winning teacher and is now pursuing her masters degree. She plans to write math texbooks later. She’s always been brilliant...not just gramma boasting. She has the accomplishments and awards to prove it. She’s book smart and life smart, she’s awesome.
This child suffered 8 minutes without oxygen while being born. We knew she would either be profoundly retarded, or a genius. She did have a little bit of a speech impediment but she’s brilliant.