My article, Brad gets Jolie and I get…Math? finally came out in the 13th issue of Pi in the Sky.

Originally, the article was written as a blog post for my first year Linear Algebra students three years ago, when I was still in Canada. And then last year, it was supposed to be published in a local Oxford science magazine, but problems with the magazine’s management made that impossible. In the end, I decided to just submit it to Pi in the Sky, a nice Canadian magazine, oriented towards high school and college students.

It always feels strange, reading over stuff you wrote years back. It never seems as good or as fresh as you imagined it to be. But I’m surprisingly happy with this one. Especially the introduction, which went through tons of edits and re-edits.

When I was in the seventh grade, one of the girls told me I looked like Keannu Reeves. No, seriously. I was hanging upside-down on the jungle gym, minding my own business, and she just walked over and told me like it was no biggie.

Then she giggled like a moron and ran away.

Now while this singular moment of brazen flattery would become the highlight of my paste-eating academic career, I was also torn…

And kudos to the creative editors of the magazine for doing a great job with putting it all together. You can click the below picture for a pdf extract of the article from the magazine.

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