My self-summary
I'm a talkative nerd/geek. If I hadn't gone into math professionally I'd probably have gone into something in the biological sciences. I'm culturally Jewish. Depending on my mood I'm generally either an agnostic, agnostic leaning atheist, or an atheist.
I don't have strong preferences for what I'm looking for aside from that I prefer to be around people who are as smart or smarter than I am. (This requires a disclaimer that I think there are a lot of different types of intelligence. One person can be smarter than someone else in one way while the other is smarter in some other way.) Ideally, someone should have a lot of background in various geeky subcultures but this isn't a major preference.
I don't have strong preferences for what I'm looking for aside from that I prefer to be around people who are as smart or smarter than I am. (This requires a disclaimer that I think there are a lot of different types of intelligence. One person can be smarter than someone else in one way while the other is smarter in some other way.) Ideally, someone should have a lot of background in various geeky subcultures but this isn't a major preference.
What I’m doing with my life
I'm a math grad student at Boston University, focusing on algebra and algebraic number theory. I intend to go into teaching or research after that. The longer I can stay in academia the better.
I’m really good at
Analyzing. This isn't always good though since sometimes I overthink or overanalyze things that don't need analysis.
Debating and discussing.
Remembering obscure sources or claims that I saw a long time ago.
Being honest with people.
Debating and discussing.
Remembering obscure sources or claims that I saw a long time ago.
Being honest with people.
The first things people usually notice about me
Physically, first thing to notice is that I'm short and look slightly like Harry Potter. If people spend time talking to me apparently people say that they notice that I know a lot of random facts and that I'm likely to mention them when they are only tangentially related to whatever subject is at hand.
Favorite books, movies, shows, music, and food
Movies: Casablanca. Field of Dreams. It's a Wonderful Life. The Godfather. Then anything that's really bad. (My movie interest has a strong bimodal distribution.)
Books: Foucault's Pendulum. An Introduction to the Theory of Numbers (Hardy & Wright). The Copernican Revolution. So You Want to Be a Wizard. Mistborn. Algebra (Serge Lang). Godel, Escher, Bach.
Food: Anything that has tomato, basil and mozzarella. Bonus points if the basil is fresh.
TV: The original Twilight Zone. Firefly. Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
Games: Illuminati. Zendo. Chess. Cylindrical Chess.
(I know that using full periods to list things is stylistically bad, but a lot of the items in question have commas in their names, and I really don't like using semicolons as object separators, so this seemed like the best solution to a poor situation.)
Books: Foucault's Pendulum. An Introduction to the Theory of Numbers (Hardy & Wright). The Copernican Revolution. So You Want to Be a Wizard. Mistborn. Algebra (Serge Lang). Godel, Escher, Bach.
Food: Anything that has tomato, basil and mozzarella. Bonus points if the basil is fresh.
TV: The original Twilight Zone. Firefly. Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
Games: Illuminati. Zendo. Chess. Cylindrical Chess.
(I know that using full periods to list things is stylistically bad, but a lot of the items in question have commas in their names, and I really don't like using semicolons as object separators, so this seemed like the best solution to a poor situation.)
The six things I could never do without
1. My Kindle
2. My Laptop.
3. Friends, especially those who know interesting things that I don't.
4. Friends who are smarter them me; in practice this set has a large intersection with the set from #3.
5. Tasty foods.
6. Books.
2. My Laptop.
3. Friends, especially those who know interesting things that I don't.
4. Friends who are smarter them me; in practice this set has a large intersection with the set from #3.
5. Tasty foods.
6. Books.
I spend a lot of time thinking about
Math. Politics. Philosophy. Dungeons and Dragons.
On a typical Friday night I am
Generally at Shabbat dinner first and then possibly going out. The Shabbat dinner is due to cultural upbringing rather than any theological belief.
The most private thing I’m willing to admit
This is a curious question. Naively, I would think that if something is private then one would not admit it in public. Therefore, I am tentatively interpreting this question as asking what is the thing that is most frequently considered private that I am willing to admit. However, standards of what are private vary a lot even within seemingly homogeneous cultures. Therefore, the signals from listing a single thing here could easily be inaccurate. This question thus requires further thought and will be most likely answered when I have time with a list of multiple things that could be plausibly put into this category.
For now, an incomplete list follows:
1) Sometimes when I walk through an automatic door I pretend that I'm using the Force to open the door.
2) I have a short list of human males whose existence makes me sure I'm completely I'm a 0 on the Kinsey scale. The list works like this: people on the list are really smart, really accomplished, and very goodlooking. So if I had even any minimal inclinations away from 0, I'd have massive crushes on them. Since I don't, I conclude that I'm a 0.
3) Sometimes when I learn a neat fact, I think to myself about possible ways that fact could turn out to be useful in real life. They almost never do.
For now, an incomplete list follows:
1) Sometimes when I walk through an automatic door I pretend that I'm using the Force to open the door.
2) I have a short list of human males whose existence makes me sure I'm completely I'm a 0 on the Kinsey scale. The list works like this: people on the list are really smart, really accomplished, and very goodlooking. So if I had even any minimal inclinations away from 0, I'd have massive crushes on them. Since I don't, I conclude that I'm a 0.
3) Sometimes when I learn a neat fact, I think to myself about possible ways that fact could turn out to be useful in real life. They almost never do.
You should message me if
As of right now, I have a girlfriend so this profile will be both out of date and not active. Hopefully that will work out. So right now, I'm not currently looking for anyone.
You live near Boston and this profile triggers your interest (I think of "near" Boston as more or less from Boston to New York. However, I don't have a car which is potentially a slight complicating factor.)