Adebisi Agboola is a professor in UCSB, working in number theory and arithmetic geometry. In this interview you get to hear non-standard opinions  on many questions, such as encouragement to do math among minorities, working on a Millenium problem and the rules of doing mathematics. 

Bisi's homepage: https://web.math.ucsb.edu/~agboola/​

0:00​ teaser

0:43​ hating math

5:45​ teaching math to small kids

9:38​ explaining your research to non-mathematicians

13:11​ following math talks

15:21​ the comfort of not understanding

20:33​ confronted with a problem you have no clue about

22:02​ lists of black mathematicians

26:41​ diversity measures in mathematics

32:46​ whether you have drive for math

35:29​ the only rule of doing math

38:01​ escaping math in a cinema

42:24​ weird reason for doing a job

44:46​ unexpected outcome of giving up

46:33​ working around a Millenium problem

49:39​ writing a research statement

53:24​ biggest misconception about math research

56:00​ people think mathematicians are crazy

58:36​ why mathematicians lack social skills

1:00:00​ find your own way