hi!

Jessamyn (rhymes with specimen) is a mathematician with a non-traditional background. After a ten-year career in knitting and textiles, they returned to school in summer 2018 to pursue an interest in mathematics; they graduated in August 2023 with a Bachelor of Arts and a minor in education.

Jessamyn can leap small ottomans in a single bound. Contact them at [firstname dot lastname at rutgers.edu]

math is for everyone

I ascribe to these four axioms of mathematics, from Federico Ardila:

Mathematical potential is distributed equally among different groups, irrespective of geographic, demographic, and economic boundaries.
Everyone can have joyful, meaningful, and empowering mathematical experiences.
Mathematics is a powerful, malleable tool that can be shaped and used differently by various communities to serve their needs.
Every student deserves to be treated with dignity and respect.

currently

sock knitting during a lecture at Connecticut Summer School in Number Theory

It's fall! You can find me:

I graduated! I'm now teaching middle and high school in an alternative school setting
Trying to learn cat theory with cats in my lap
Thinking about Picard lattices of K3 surfaces as part of ongoing research with my Rethinking Number Theory group

getting some help on my Polymath Jr. summer project in solvable lattice models