alt Hacker NewsWhat I love most is that Hannah Fry didn't get into the Cambridge undergraduate(?) math program (maths programme for you Brits) but became a math professor at Cambridge. Go Hannah!
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mi_lk • today at 8:17 AM
Seems to happen to most top universities, or is there some context I'm missing?
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mttch • today at 8:51 AM
I know another professor where this is also the case!
hunnovi • today at 12:33 PM
She is great at popularity regarding mathematics, but her achievements do not seem to be primarily within hardcore mathematical research, more within popularity and communication.
> She is the first Professor of the Public Understanding of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge,
I am not sure that she is a "math professor", but that she is a "professor of the public understanding of mathematics". The latter seems softer.
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She went to UCL which is also a tier one university, though.