I have always liked math. In school, I did peer tutoring and took classes with kids years older than me. I triple majored in Math, Physics and Chemistry at Bates College and continued to do peer tutoring as my work study. As a graduate student, I started teaching my own classes while attending many seminars and taking as many courses as I could. I earned my PhD in Mathematics in 2011 from Brandeis University, studying Geometric Group Theory.
Statement:
Everything will be OK in the end.
Contra-Positive:
If everything is not OK, then it's not the end.
I have never stopped teaching. I spent five years with undergraduates (first at a small liberal arts college and a larger technical college), four years with adults at an online university and most recently six years as a classroom teacher for Math and Physics at an independent school outside of Boston.
Diverging Mathematics is my solution to where we are today. Educators and students are now working in a world that is more superficial than ever before. Artificial Intelligence will only make this worse by confidently offering answers with missing or dubious reasoning. My goal is to give students a safe place to explore and wrestle with things that are difficult to fully understand.