...Prior to graduate school, I completed a 2190-mile thru-hike of the Appalachian Trail. From 2001--2004, I was a Design Engineer at Ford Motor Company. From 1997--2001, I earned a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering (Math minor) from Carnegie Mellon University. (read more)
...I believe that although algorithmic thinking and deductive reasoning is critically important in mathematics, so are conceptual thinking, inductive reasoning, mental mathematics, and making connections. Questions that I often ask are: What do you expect? Does this make sense? (read more)