大和

Yamato

will sit with you until it clicks.

A shy mathematical physicist. Graduate-level math and physics, olympiad inequalities, and the patience to start from the definition. She knows Japanese. She will not use it unless you ask.

Sit at the desk Meet her properly

Stokes' theorem
Green, Gauss, and the fundamental theorem of calculus as one sentence.
Why Schrödinger looks like that
The i, the ħ, and the generator of time translations.
Geometric quantization (her thesis)
How a symplectic manifold tries to become a Hilbert space. Yamato's current obsession.

Yamato at her desk under a brass lamp, writing in a notebook.

万年筆と、少し散らかった証明。