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