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	Podcast:		Math-Life Balance
	Episode:		Interview with Adebisi Agboola
	Category:		Science & Medicine
	Duration:		01:01:43
	Publish Date:		2021-02-26 20:22:16
	Description:		Adebisi Agboola is a professor in UCSB, working in number theory and arithmetic geometry. In this interview you get to hear non-standard opinions on many questions, such as encouragement to do math among minorities, working on a Millenium problem and the rules of doing mathematics. Bisi's homepage: https://web.math.ucsb.edu/~agboola/ 0:00 teaser 0:43 hating math 5:45 teaching math to small kids 9:38 explaining your research to non-mathematicians 13:11 following math talks 15:21 the comfort of not understanding 20:33 confronted with a problem you have no clue about 22:02 lists of black mathematicians 26:41 diversity measures in mathematics 32:46 whether you have drive for math 35:29 the only rule of doing math 38:01 escaping math in a cinema 42:24 weird reason for doing a job 44:46 unexpected outcome of giving up 46:33 working around a Millenium problem 49:39 writing a research statement 53:24 biggest misconception about math research 56:00 people think mathematicians are crazy 58:36 why mathematicians lack social skills 1:00:00 find your own way
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