What if math could help you find your dreams? | Judith Zeilinger, PhD | TEDxGraz
TEDx Talks·2025-12-18 16:19

Few things in life make one feel quite as heroically unaccomplished as having to move back in with your parents. But that's exactly the situation I found myself in in early 2022. Until then, I had been working as a research mathematician, which means contract after contract, moving around the globe wherever the grant would take me.So, this one day, I'm sitting at my desk racking up yet another research contract, trying to figure out where the heck my next paycheck would come from, when suddenly it dawns on ...