Danica Mckellar
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Danica McKellar studied at UCLA where she earned a Bachelor of Science degree summa cum laude in Mathematics in 1998. As an undergraduate, she co-authored a scientific paper with Professor Lincoln Chayes and fellow student Brandy Winn titled "Percolation and Gibbs states multiplicity for ferromagnetic Ashkin–Teller models. Their results are termed the "Chayes–McKellar–Winn theorem". Later, when Chayes was asked to comment about the mathematical abilities of his student coauthors, he was quoted in The New York Times, "I thought that the two were really, really first-rate." For her past collaborative work on research papers, McKellar is currently assigned the Erdős number four, and her Erdős–Bacon number is six
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Danica McKellar played Winnie Cooper in the television show The Wonder Years, and later wrote four non-fiction books: Math Doesn't Suck, Kiss My Math, Hot X: Algebra Exposed and Girls Get Curves: Geometry Takes Shape, which encourage middle-school and high-school girls to have confidence and succeed in mathematics. McKellar, 39 divorced from her husband in 2013.
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** FILE ** In this photo from Sun., Feb. 26, 2012, actress Danica McKellar arrives at the Elton John AIDS Foundation Academy Awards viewing party in West Hollywood, Calif. McKellar, who starred in the ABC series "The Wonder Years," filed to end her three-year marriage to composer Michael Verta on Monday, June 4, 2012, in Los Angeles. (Associated Press)
