McKella studied at UCLA and earned a Bachelor of Science with honours (summa cum laude) in 1998. As an undergraduate, she coauthored a scientific paper with Professro Lincoln Chayes and fellow student Brandy Winn entitled "Percolation and Gibbs states multiplicity for ferromagnetic Ashkin-Teller models on
". Their results are termed the 'Chayes-McKeller-Winn theorem'. Referring to the mathematical abilities of his student coauthors, Chayes was quoted in The New York Times as saying, "I thought that the two were really, really first-rate." McKellar's Erdos Number is four and her Erdos-Bacon number is 6. (source: wikipedia)
1. The Pi Episode - Join Danica McKeller as she explains the joys and mysteries of the wonderful world of Pi!
2. Math Head: DO MATH IN YOUR HEAD!
3. Binary Numbers. Danica McKeller demystifies the 1's and 0's of binary numbers
4. Percents: explains percents and the value they have in everyday life
5. World Math - Mathematical concepts may be universal, but the mathematics around the world varies.
6. Dance of the Sugar Pi Fairies - it's pi like you've never seen before! Look out for Simon Pegg...
McKellar has written a number of books on mathematics, mainly designed to pass on her love of mathematics to girls. Titles include: "Girls Get Curves: Geometry takes Shape", "Math Doesn't Suck", "Kiss my Math" and "Hot X: Algebra Exposed"
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