Many characters in our movies and articles are based on real-life characters, whom we had the honour to talk to. They were gracious to allow us to record their views on mathematics. Here we would like to share with you their real-life stories and comments!

  • Ping
    Appeared in articles:     Thermodynamics and Traffic Jam, How mathematicians think
    Malaysian. 3rd year medical student
    “Mathematics trains you to quantify the problem at hand, looking past all that jargon and complexities of any field...”

     

  • Fahmi
    Appeared in articles: How mathematicians think
    Singaporean, 3rd year engineering student
    “Maths is absolutely essential to produce working devices and predict their behavior. Without it, plain judgment would be the only other alternative, and this would make a total mess of things.”

     

  • Kim
    Appeared in movies: Restaurant, Love
    Malaysian, 4th year engineering student
    “Despite my future career goal of being an engineer whose indisputable best friend is math and logic, I actually only began appreciating and enjoying math several years ago. Back when I was in junior high, it was one of my most dreaded and disliked subject (I was terrible at it). Fast forward a couple of years later with the aid of a great math teacher I met in high school, I am now on track to be an engineer who uses math in almost everything.”

     

  • Hesavan
    Appeared in movies: Restaurant, Love
    Sri Lankan, 4th year engineering student
    “As a signal processing engineer, needless to say, I use mathematics everyday at work. One does not have to be a genius to understand and apply mathematics, I believe that the more mathematics one knows, the better solutions you can find to a problem and hence would make your job more interesting and rewarding.”

     

  • Kit
    Appeared in movies : Restaurant
    Indian, 4th year engineering student
    “No, in real life I'm not Hesavan's girlfriend! I worked in the same research group with Hesavan over a summer project. Yes, as a signal processing engineer, I use a lot of mathematics at work. Though I enjoyed mathematics in school, I never fully realized its importance until I started university. It is amazing where mathematics takes you...”