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AmericanBorn Danica Mae MCKELLAR

American actress, mathematics writer, and education advocate

Born on January 3, 1975 in La Jolla, California , United States (50 years)

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McKellar was born in La Jolla, California. She moved with her family to Los Angeles when she was eight. Her mother Mahaila (nee Tello) was a homemaker; her father Christopher is a real estate developer. She is of paternal Scottish, French, German, Spanish, Dutch descent and her mother is of Portuguese origin via the Azores and Madeira islands.



McKellar studied at the University of California, Los Angeles where she earned a Bachelor of Science (B.S.) degree summa cum laude in Mathematics in 1998. As an undergraduate, she coauthored a scientific paper with Professor Lincoln Chayes and fellow student Brandy Winn titled "Percolation and Gibbs states multiplicity for ferromagnetic Ashkin–Teller models on Z 2 {\displaystyle \mathbb {Z} ^{2}} \mathbb {Z} ^{2}." Their results are termed the "Chayes–McKellar–Winn theorem". Later, when Chayes was asked to comment about the mathematical abilities of his student coauthors, he was quoted in The New York Times, "I thought that the two were really, really first-rate." For her past collaborative work on research papers, McKellar is currently assigned the Erdos number four, and her Erdos–Bacon number is six.

...   McKellar was born in La Jolla, California. She moved with her family to Los Angeles when she was eight. Her mother Mahaila (nee Tello) was a homemaker; her father Christopher is a real estate developer. She is of paternal Scottish, French, German, Spanish, Dutch descent and her mother is of Portuguese origin via the Azores and Madeira islands.



McKellar studied at the University of California, Los Angeles where she earned a Bachelor of Science (B.S.) degree summa cum laude in Mathematics in 1998. As an undergraduate, she coauthored a scientific paper with Professor Lincoln Chayes and fellow student Brandy Winn titled "Percolation and Gibbs states multiplicity for ferromagnetic Ashkin–Teller models on Z 2 {\displaystyle \mathbb {Z} ^{2}} \mathbb {Z} ^{2}." Their results are termed the "Chayes–McKellar–Winn theorem". Later, when Chayes was asked to comment about the mathematical abilities of his student coauthors, he was quoted in The New York Times, "I thought that the two were really, really first-rate." For her past collaborative work on research papers, McKellar is currently assigned the Erdos number four, and her Erdos–Bacon number is six.



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