News Headline
A Mathematician Who Decodes the Patterns Stamped Out by Life
Source
Quanta Magazine
Publication Date
2018-10-25
hen Corina Tarnita was a budding mathematician, she found her interest in mathematics flickering, about to burn out. As a girl she had stormed through Romania’s National Mathematical Olympiad — where she won a three-peat from 1999 to 2001 — then on to Harvard University as an undergraduate and straight into its graduate school to study questions in pure mathematics.