Uploaded August 2022 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
I gave a talk at my high school today and it got me thinking again about my experience of being labelled "bad at mathematics" and eventually doing my PhD at the University of Cambridge.
Btw, just because I think people will be confused, my field (quantum computing) is cross disciplinary, but at Cambridge it was in the maths department. I never know whether to call myself a physicist or a mathematician.
I gave a talk at my high school today and it got me thinking again about my experience of being labelled "bad at mathematics" and eventually doing my PhD at the University of Cambridge.
Btw, just because I think people will be confused, my field (quantum computing) is cross disciplinary, but at Cambridge it was in the maths department. I never know whether to call myself a physicist or a mathematician.
