I intend to put a witty few paragraphs
detailing how I came to be me, but that'll have to wait. For now,
a summary.
I was nerd and a dork in high school. For college, I went to the
Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, which at the time was an
all-male school. My junior year I went to study in Hungary, and
began a 3 year period of intense de-dorking. I was a Fulbright
scholar, and later dropped out of grad school, swearing to never
do math again, and moved back to Hungary for a couple of years.
Having become a suave man-of-the-world super-sybarite, I decided
to return to the world of the sane. A few years later I had a Ph.
D., child, wife, and mutt (acquired in reverse order).
After graduating in Illinois, I professed in San Diego for 3
years, and then moved to New York City in 2005. From 2005 through
the pandemic, I lived in or near New York City. During the
pandemic, I moved to Miami, which is my current permanent
residence. I frequently fly into to New York for math and
teaching.
Added Later: A
friend
has warned me that the
dictionary
defines 'mutt' as "a stupid or insignificant person". That isn't
what I intended! The second dictionary definition is "a mongrel
dog". That's what I meant. I swear, and she was the best dog ever.
