Archive - Love, Truth, and Beauty

April 2025

"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 •

Aaron Mazel-Gee

"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 •

Aaron Mazel-Gee

"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 •

Aaron Mazel-Gee

"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 •

Aaron Mazel-Gee

March 2025

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