Danica Mckellar

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Danica Mckellar
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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

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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'

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Jimmy Kimmel Live

• http//www.youtube.com/watch?vGLk04HvPEo0

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'Chayes-McKellar-Winn theorem'

• Percolation and Gibbs states multiplicity for
  ferromagnetic Ashkin-Teller models on Z2
• 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

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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

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Sources

• http//terrytao.wordpress.com/2007/08/20/math-does
  nt-suck-and-the-chayes-mckellar-winn-theorem/
• http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danica_McKellar