{"id":608,"date":"2024-11-17T20:22:20","date_gmt":"2024-11-17T20:22:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/newmath2025\/?p=608"},"modified":"2025-07-16T20:45:38","modified_gmt":"2025-07-16T20:45:38","slug":"prof-dan-margalit-and-isaiah-williams-25-unravel-mysteries-of-math","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/math\/2024\/11\/17\/prof-dan-margalit-and-isaiah-williams-25-unravel-mysteries-of-math\/","title":{"rendered":"Prof. Dan Margalit and Isaiah Williams &#8217;25 Unravel Mysteries of Math"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new video made by the College of Arts &amp; Science communications team aims to answer some of the frequently searched questions about mathematics. Prof. Dan Margalit, Chair of Mathematics and Stevenson Chair, along with undergraduate Isaiah Williams, class of &#8217;25 fielded questions and answered them in the madcap video made by Liz Chagnon. The two previously worked together during Summer &#8217;24 on an undergraduate research project about the virtual braid group. \u00a0The format is inspired by similar videos about celebrities on YouTube, such as Vogue&#8217;s 73 questions series. \u00a0The video is available here: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=-Gf3ZhbR08s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=-Gf3ZhbR08s<\/a><\/p>\n<p>According to reputable sources, this was Vanderbilt&#8217;s #3 social media of 2024: <a href=\"https:\/\/news.vanderbilt.edu\/2024\/12\/12\/best-of-vanderbilt-social-media-2024\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/news.vanderbilt.edu\/2024\/12\/12\/best-of-vanderbilt-social-media-2024\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The busier reader might prefer the Instagram version: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reel\/DDQNn8gB9UJ\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reel\/DDQNn8gB9UJ\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Williams summed up the experience by saying &#8220;This is clearly the highlight of my life so far, and probably my entire lifetime.&#8221; \u00a0Margalit agreed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new video made by the College of Arts &amp; Science communications team aims to answer some of the frequently searched questions about mathematics. Prof. Dan Margalit, Chair of Mathematics and Stevenson Chair, along with undergraduate Isaiah Williams, class of &#8217;25 fielded questions and answered them in the madcap video made by Liz Chagnon. The&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":74,"featured_media":924,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,3],"tags":[5],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/vu-cas\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/69\/2024\/11\/24135826\/Untitled.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/math\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/math\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/math\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/math\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/74"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/math\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=608"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/math\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":609,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/math\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608\/revisions\/609"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/math\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/math\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/math\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/math\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}