Interview with Adebisi Agboola

Adebisi Agboola is a professor in UCSB, working in number theory and arithmetic geometry. In this interview you get to hear non-standard opinions on many questions, such as encouragement to do math among minorities, working on a Millenium problem and the rules of doing mathematics. Bisi's homepage: https://web.math.ucsb.edu/~agboola/​ 0:00​ teaser 0:43​ hating math 5:45​ teaching math to small kids 9:38​ explaining your research to non-mathematicians 13:11​ following math talks 15:21​ the comfort of not understanding 20:33​ confronted with a problem you have no clue about 22:02​ lists of black mathematicians 26:41​ diversity measures in mathematics 32:46​ whether you have drive for math 35:29​ the only rule of doing math 38:01​ escaping math in a cinema 42:24​ weird reason for doing a job 44:46​ unexpected outcome of giving up 46:33​ working around a Millenium problem 49:39​ writing a research statement 53:24​ biggest misconception about math research 56:00​ people think mathematicians are crazy 58:36​ why mathematicians lack social skills 1:00:00​ find your own way