MB: So I teach a lot of math majors here.
MB:What's interesting is that when people arrive at college for the
first time, they think that math is all about computation; they
think it's all about calculating. They think that you're just going
to take four years of calculus, and you're just going to get better
and better at calculating. But that's not what a math major is
really about. The math major is really about finding logical
explanations, being able to prove the patterns that you observed.
That's I would say that's really at the heart of being a math major.
So those two, yeah, so yeah. For me, personally, in my research
career, there are about five or six questions that I'm thinking
about right now. Patterns that I've observed in different areas of
graph theory, and I'm trying to prove what I'm trying to prove,
trying to explain what I've observed, but I don't yet have the
explanations yet. I'm still trying to come up with explanations for
these patterns I've seen, and it's frustrating, but it's also kind
of fun. When you do find an explanation. It's the best feeling in
the world.