Most importantly, I didn’t know what I wanted to do. I was a math major, but didn’t know if I wanted to be a mathematician. I scheduled a meeting with an academic adviser, who encouraged me to pursue ...

mathematician and reinvest the rest ... It’s a very forward-looking gift.” Thorp and his wife, Vivian, have created the Edward and Vivian Thorp Endowment with an initial gift of a little ...

In this week’s article, Vivian interviews Rona Wang ... MIT undergraduate Rona Wang shares about her high school and college experiences as a writer, mathematician, and computer scientist. This past ...