People / Priyaa Varshinee Srinivasan

Postdoctoral Researcher (Alum)

About

Priyaa Varshinee Srinivasan is a compassionate mathematician at Topos. Along with research in category theory, she is interested in creating pathways to make math communication user-friendly and approachable – from math in school to mathematical research. She is inspired by works of Tai Danae Bradley, Eugenia Cheng, John Baez, Pawel Sobocinski, Bob Coecke and many others in this area. Her research experience includes categorical quantum mechanics, linearly distributive categories and currently polynomial functors.

Personal website

https://slibkind.github.io/

Blog posts

Rethink math talks

Can we build a tradition of math talks which invites the audience to engage not only with the speaker but also with each other? That is, a seminar that starts as a lecture and ends as a conversation. In this post, Sophie and Priyaa discuss how such a seminar might look based on previous…

Sophie Libkind, Priyaa Varshinee Srinivasan

2024-08-02

How to write a fantastic book in four months, Part III

In the third post of this series about Relational Thinking: from abstractions to applications, we look at the story-telling approach that we took in writing the book.

Priyaa Varshinee Srinivasan

2024-07-09

How to write a fantastic book in four months, Part II

In the second post of this series about Relational Thinking: from abstractions to applications, we look at the technologies used to build the book.

Priyaa Varshinee Srinivasan

2024-07-04

How to write a fantastic book in four months, Part I

In the first post of this series, we introduce the freely available online book Relational Thinking: from abstractions to applications, starting with the story of how it came into being and giving a brief overview of its contents.

Priyaa Varshinee Srinivasan

2024-06-28

Solving problem-solving

Our physical world is incredibly complex. Surviving life is a lot about problem-solving, be it waking up in morning and finding your way to the bathroom or solving a math problem for research. We constantly abstract information back and forth from the physical plane to our mental plane for solving…

Priyaa Varshinee Srinivasan, David Spivak

2023-11-13