Office Hours: Math and Wrath with Professor Ivan Contreras
Hosts Briana Bao ’28 and Rita Xing ’28 are joined by Associate Professor of Mathematics Ivan Contreras to discuss his research approach and advice for majors and non-majors alike.
Are you ever confused about the thunderous laughter reverberating through Seeley Mudd? Are your dreams infiltrated by math problems? Do you have math competition trauma? In this episode, Briana Bao ’28 and Rita Xing ’28 sit down with Associate Professor of Mathematics Ivan Contreras to discuss the highs and lows of his “complicated” but ultimately loving relationship with mathematics. The episode features his opinions on how students should position themselves toward math, suggestions for what courses to take as a non-major, and his various other exciting interests.
Episode notes can be found here.
Edited and produced by Briana Bao ’28 and Rita Xing ’28.
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