TL/DR: I became a mathematician because I was a socially awkward five-year-old and things just kind of snowballed from there. The early days My mathematical career started in kindergarten. Until I was five years old I stayed home with my mom and two younger siblings, even though a free full-day pre-school and kindergarten program was available from age three, and… Read more →
Family and parenting
Having a baby: nothing like I imagined
I promise I won’t turn this into a mommy blog, but I think I owe a follow-up to the previous post. So here is how the first month of parenthood turned out. I’ll still call my spouse Pink and I’ll call our baby Pixie (it’s a bad translation of the nickname I call him in Hungarian). Day 0: labour and… Read more →
Pregnancy: nothing like I imagined
I will call my spouse Pink from now on. There’s no deep reason for this other than that he wore pink to our wedding. I don’t know how I’m supposed to choose pseudonyms. On to the actual post: From about age four to 34, I went through many episodes of the baby fever. They varied in severity and some were… Read more →
My wealthy poor childhood
As a child I was enrolled in music lessons, after-school art classes, swimming, ballet and ballroom dancing lessons, and math and chemistry coaching for competitions. My parents would sign me up for anything I showed interest in. We had season tickets to the opera, the ballet and the symphony. From age 10 to 18 I went to a prestigious school… Read more →