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Dr Holly Krieger Age, Husband, Married【 Wikipedia Bio 】Maths

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Name Holly Krieger

Age / How old / Birthday / Date of Birth / DOB November 19, 1983. As of 2024, she is around 41 years old.

Wedding & Marriage / Husband / Engaged / Spouse / Partner No confirmed information is available.

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Introduction :

Dr Holly Krieger is a mathematical genius & a university lecturer at a prestigious academic institute.

Personal Life, Parents and Family Details :

  • Holly was born on November 19, 1983, and was raised in Chicago.
  • Currently, she resides in Cambridge, England.
  • Dr. Holly was pregnant in 2021, and had her baby daughter around mid-2021. During her pregnancy, she posted a few pictures on her Twitter account.

Education : Qualifications, High School & College Info

  • When she was younger, Holly’s dad introduced her to a variety of different math & logic puzzles, deductive reasoning, and the proofs of early Euclidean geometry, which she enjoyed doing and excelled at.
  • In 2006, Krieger attended the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign and received her degree in Mathematics
  • Initially, she attended the university as a Biology student, but after experimenting with science, psychology, Italian, and computer science, she finally decided to pursue a degree in mathematics.
  • She described choosing mathematics as the feeling of ‘intellectual passion’ for the first time since the age of twelve when she was in geometry class.
  • When Holly decided to major in Mathematics, she made a conscious and intentional choice to work as a record store clerk & bartender to maintain her social life and be around ‘normal’ people that she found more interesting than her academic peers.
  • She went on to further her education and earned a Master’s Degree and Ph.D. in Mathematics at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC).

Career, Job, Salary and Net Worth :

  • Holly is now a Lecturer at the University of Cambridge, as well as the Director of Studies and Fellow in Maths at Murray Edwards College. Murray Edwards College is one of the few women-only colleges in Cambridge.
  • Her current research interests are in the ever-growing field of arithmetic dynamics, which involves the studies of the relationship between dynamics of one complex variable and the arithmetic geometry of abelian varieties.
  • Holly has been invited along to speak at a number of public talks – in 2016, she was a panel member for ‘The Man Who Knew Infinity’ discussion at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
  • She also did a talk for LMS Girls on Mathematics Day and was Project Leader for ‘Women in Numbers 4’ in Banff, Canada.
  • In 2017, she spoke at the John Adams Institute in Amsterdam.

Height of Social Media Fame :

  • Krieger has appeared in several episodes on the YouTube Channel ‘Numberphile,’ an entire platform dedicated to numbers and mathematical revelations. The channel has a whopping subscriber count of more than 3-million.
  • Two of the episodes, she starred in were called ‘The Mandelbrot Set’ and ‘63 and -7/4 Are Special,’ which each went on to gain over one million views.
  • Holly has over 15,000 followers on her Twitter (now called X) Profile.

Awards and Achievements :

  • The Emily Mann Peck Scholarship in Mathematics from 2005-2006
  • A postdoctoral fellow for a semester in model theory, arithmetic geometry, and number theory in Spring 2014
  • The NSF Mathematical Sciences Postdoctoral Research Fellowship from 2013-2016 and the Isaac Newton Early Career Support Scheme in 2018.

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