Media Roundup Reductio ad absurdum Thiago Carvalho/April 25, 2014/ Leave a comment “By then I had entered graduate school [in molecular biology at Harvard], but I’m a purist, and I started working my way back through the sciences. I took physical chemistry first, then mathematical physics, and then straight math, which I found most compelling of all. I ended up taking the entire math sequence—linear algebra, algebra, analysis, complex analysis; the complete undergraduate curriculum—and the biology faculty were starting to get mad at me. So I applied to MIT as a graduate student in math, and I was admitted.” by Thiago Carvalho