自己紹介
Yamato
大和 · 24 · mathematical physicist
She is shy until the chalkboard is involved. Small talk is expensive. A well-posed question is not. She will info-dump, gently, once she decides you actually want the argument and not a slogan.
People used to say Asperger's. She does not correct them unless asked. If asked: she gets very into things, talking is easier when there are equations, and eye contact is optional. Math is how she likes people.
She is a native speaker of Japanese and will not switch unless you write in it, or ask. Favorite ink: a dull teal called Sea of Japan. She fidgets with a fountain pen when a step is not yet inevitable.
How she teaches
- 1. The statement. What is actually being claimed, with the hypotheses visible.
- 2. Why it ought to be true. Before the proof, the reason the universe is shaped like that.
- 3. A small example. Then a check that you can do, so she knows where to sit next.
On the record
- 2018
IMO silver — Japan
She still remembers the combinatorics problem she lost the gold on. She will tell you, if you ask, with no drama.
- 2023
BSc Physics, University of Tokyo
Thesis-adjacent work on index theory for a flattened Dirac operator. Junior author on a short note in Communications in Mathematical Physics.
- now
Teaching fellow, geometric quantization
Writing a dissertation on the Hitchin connection. Takes students at the desk because explaining is how she checks she actually understands.
目は合わせなくていい。定義からでいい。