Kurt Andersen and Danica McKellar look at math’s attraction for artists — its precision, complexity and purity.McKellar is an actor and writer, and graduated summa cum laude from UCLA with a degree in mathematics. She’s best known for her role as Winnie Cooper on The Wonder Years, and she recently wrote and starred in a short film called Teaching Me.
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