All right, you're a genius, I get it.

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Butcould you co-author a Theorem? And you seem to have a problem with actresses who use their fame to get into Universities. Here's news for you, schools consider Extracurricular activies. The real question is, why aren't you on a tv show or movie?

In the kingdom of the blind, you're the village idiot.

The OP might not be able to "co-author a theorem," but neither did Danica McKellar. She was a contributor to the paper, but using the term co-author implies that she had as much of a part as Chayes did in the paper. Since she was an undergrad I can guarantee you that all she did was some work on the math in the paper.

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She did co-author the paper, it's called the "Chayes-McKellar-Winn theorem". You have no idea, nor do I, of how much she contributed, so you must take it on face value. She is listed as an author (L Chayes, D McKellar and B Winn), no one gets to take that away from her list of accomplishments.

http://iopscience.iop.org/0305-4470/31/45/005

Do undergraduate and possibly some graduate work in mathematics, and then you can say that. You can write and use one quick computer code and you get your name on a paper.

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How do you know? Is your name on a paper? Did you half-ass it to get there?

I know because I'm working on a PhD in applied math. I've seen enough BS contributions to papers which resulted in getting someone's name on it. Now I'll ask you, have you done any post-secondary work in math?

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That is correct. Do you know how a PhD works? I have an advisor, but the work is primarily done by me. My advisor directs me in the area where the problem should go, but my name will be the one on the published work as the primary author.

When you work on a paper as an undergraduate, more often than not you are not the one doing most of the work. Generally the faculty member with whom you're working is doing the meat of the project and the students contribute. At least, that is expected to be the case when there are three names on the paper and her's is not first.

Contributing to a paper like that one is an impressive feat, but to call her a genius, as the OP obviously did, is ridiculous.


Edit: I never actually said that her contribution was BS. All I said was that she did not author a theorem or most likely write the paper.


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