Английская Википедия:Federico Ardila
Federico Ardila (born 1977) is a Colombian mathematician and DJ who researches combinatorics and specializes in matroid theory. Ardila graduated from MIT with a B.Sc. in mathematics in 1998 and obtained a Ph.D. in 2003 under the supervision of Richard P. Stanley in the same institution.[1] Ardila is currently a professor at the San Francisco State University and additionally holds an adjunct position at the University of Los Andes in Colombia.[2]
Early life and education
Ardila was born in Bogotá, Colombia. During his childhood Ardila showed great promise in mathematics, scoring the highest amongst his age group in the fourth grade.[3] While attending the college-prep Colegio San Carlos in Bogotá, Ardila represented Colombia in the International Math Olympiad, winning a bronze medal in 1993 and a silver medal in 1994.[4]
Prior to attending MIT, Ardila was already enrolled in another local university. Ardila had never heard of MIT, but a classmate told him that they offered financial aid to everyone, so he applied without knowing how competitive the school was.[3]
In addition to mathematics, Ardila enjoys making music and is a co-founder of the Oakland DJ collective La Pelanga.[5][3]
Career
Under his NSF CAREER grant, Ardila has worked to create a larger and more diverse community of members of underrepresented groups within mathematics.[6] Ardila follows certain principles geared towards cultivating diversity within his field of study, which he calls Axioms:[2]
- Axiom 1. Mathematical potential is distributed equally among different groups, irrespective of geographic, demographic, and economic boundaries.
- Axiom 2. Everyone can have joyful, meaningful, and empowering mathematical experiences.
- Axiom 3. Mathematics is a powerful, malleable tool that can be shaped and used differently by various communities to serve their needs.
- Axiom 4. Every student deserves to be treated with dignity and respect.[7]
As part of his SFSU-Colombia combinatorics initiative, Ardila has provided over 200 hours of lecture videos on YouTube with additional resources for free.[8][9] He is also well known for his appearances in the popular mathematics YouTube video series Numberphile.[10]
Awards
Ardila has received many awards, among which are:
- Deborah and Franklin Haimo Awards for Distinguished College or University Teaching of Mathematics (2020)[11]
- Simons Foundation Fellowship in Mathematics (2019-2020)[12]
- Premio Nacional de Matemáticas of the Colombian Mathematical Society (2019)[13]
- Fellow of the American Mathematical Society (2018)[14]
- National Science Foundation CAREER Award (2010-2016)[15]
Selected writings
- Lagrangian geometry of matroids (2020), with Graham Denham and June Huh
- CAT(0) geometry, robots, and society (2019)
- Hopf monoids and generalized permutahedra (2017), with Marcelo Aguiar
- Todos Cuentan: Cultivating Diversity in Combinatorics (2016)
References
External links
- Professional webpage at San Francisco State University
- Youtube channel
- Mathematics Genealogy Project
- Google Scholar citations
- Numberphile videos: Combinatorics and Higher Dimensions, The Cross Ratio, The Math (and money) of Soccer Stickers
- La Pelanga DJ Collective
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- 21st-century Colombian mathematicians
- 1979 births
- Living people
- Academic staff of the University of Los Andes (Colombia)
- People from Bogotá
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology School of Science alumni
- San Francisco State University faculty
- Fellows of the American Mathematical Society
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