Danica Mckellar

Acting
► Her biggest role was
when she played Winnie
Cooper on the TV show
“The Wonder Years”
► After “The Wonder
Years,” Danica had
several small roles of a
number of TV shows
 Math
► While acting Danica decided to attend UCLA
► It is there that she fell in love with math
► Professor Lincoln Chayes ask Danica and a
classmate, Brandy Winn, to assist with a
scientific paper.
► The results were the 'Chayes-McKellar-Winn
theorem'
 Jimmy Kimmel Live
► http://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=GLk04HvPEo0
 'Chayes-McKellar-Winn theorem'
► “Percolation and Gibbs states multiplicity for
ferromagnetic Ashkin-Teller models on
Z^2”
► It has to do with heating an iron magnet to
a certain temperature which makes the iron
bar stop magnetizing and when it cools, it
continues to magnetize
► This theorem proves what that temperature
is on a certain model for magnetism
 Current Activity
► Since graduating, Danica has continued her
acting career
► She has also published two books, Math
Doesn't Suck and Kiss My Math, that helps
young girls try to relate to math
► Both of them spent time on the New York
Times children's bestseller list
 Sources
► http://terrytao.wordpress.com/2007/08/20/
math-doesnt-suck-and-the-chayes-mckellar-
winn-theorem/
► http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danica_McKella
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