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Terry Majewski: An Unlikely Social Scientist by Before the Abstract

Tim Taylor: The Right Lunch Box by Before the Abstract

Sandra López Varela: An Unexpected Life by Before the Abstract

From coming of age in a fascist dictatorship to leaving home for the first time to pursue a PhD in archaeology in the United States, Nuno shares his story of how he came to have the best of two very different worlds.

Stories about Math: Piper Harron by Before the Abstract

A surprising collaboration comes out of Daniele's dinner with 'one of the greatest names in the history of quantum physics.'

A mathematician's career is inspired by her family legacy.

Seth shares a story about the time he opened an "Ask a Mathematician" booth at Burning Man.

Ken Ono has a Eureka moment while working on one of Ramanujan's unpublished manuscripts.

Coming of age in 1970s Chile, an ecologist reflects on the social and environmental issues caused by the political climate, plus recounts how a near death experience impacted the course of his research.