Today's Spotlight features an image by Bryce Vickmark of Philippe Rigollet.
Philippe Rigollet was born in a rural French town with a population of only 365. His mother was a speech therapist, and his father taught grades two through five at the local elementary school. The 30-odd students in those four grades shared a single classroom, and during math class, Rigollet’s father would pose questions to each group in turn. “That’s where I got used to being good at math,” Rigollet says. “I would try to listen to the harder questions from the upper class.”
Read the full story on MIT News.
Philippe Rigollet was born in a rural French town with a population of only 365. His mother was a speech therapist, and his father taught grades two through five at the local elementary school. The 30-odd students in those four grades shared a single classroom, and during math class, Rigollet’s father would pose questions to each group in turn. “That’s where I got used to being good at math,” Rigollet says. “I would try to listen to the harder questions from the upper class.”
Read the full story on MIT News.