The Little Star - with Zvezdelina Stankova

The Numberphile Podcast

Brady Haran

Natural Sciences, Science & Medicine, Social Sciences, Educational Technology, Education

4.9 • 619 Ratings

🗓️ 13 January 2022

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Mathematician Zvezdelina Stankova was born in Bulgaria and is now a teaching professor at UC Berkeley. Zvezda's webpage - https://math.berkeley.edu/~stankova/ Zvezda videos on Numberphile - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLt5AfwLFPxWIbAPK1oJgRIpe0sWiPKkQ4 The Legend of Question Six - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y30VF3cSIYQ Berkeley Math Circle - https://mathcircle.berkeley.edu This episode was supported by G-Research, a world-leading quantitative finance research firm, hiring the brightest minds to tackle the biggest questions in finance - learn more at gresearch.co.uk/numberphile/ - https://www.gresearch.co.uk/numberphile/ You can support Numberphile on Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/numberphile Like these people - https://www.numberphile.com/patrons With thanks to MSRI - https://www.msri.org

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0:00.0	Today's guest is a regular and very popular contributor to our number file videos,
0:09.2	Zvezda Lena Stankover.
0:11.1	Zvezda, as most people call her, is based in Berkeley, where she's heavily involved
0:15.3	in helping the next generation of mathematicians through programs like
0:19.1	Math Circles and the Math Olympiad. Zvezda herself was a star
0:23.6	Math Olympian for her native country of Bulgaria, where she famously solved a fiendish problem that's been
0:30.8	written into folklore. But we'll come to that later. Let's start with your name, because I call you Zvezda, but that's not your full name.
0:42.4	No. My full name is Zvezelina.
0:45.2	Okay.
0:45.8	And that means little star.
0:49.0	Little star?
0:49.9	Yes.
0:50.6	I like it. All right. Tell us where you were born.
0:52.7	I was born in Russia in Bulgaria. It is. Tell us where you were born. I was born in Rousse, in Bulgaria.
0:55.2	It is a town on the Danube River.
0:58.6	That's where I grew up.
1:00.3	And what was childhood like in Bulgaria?
1:03.1	I've never even been to Bulgaria.
1:04.5	I have very sweet memories from my childhood.
1:07.8	Even though it was during the communist era, my parents were very involved with
1:14.0	us, the kids.
1:15.3	So what were you like as a little girl then?
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