Danica McKellar
UCLA Alumna and former "Winnie Cooper" of the Wonder Years TV program,
featured in two magazine articles:
Summary of Articles:
- "New Math: Danica McKellar could star in 'Good Will Hunting 2' - the former "Wonder Years" head-turner is a real-life math whiz," Entertainment Weekly, Posted March 12, 1999. Article also features UCLA Mathematics Dept. Professor L. Chayes and alumna, Brandy Winn.
- "Wonder Woman: Ex-TV cutie Danica McKellar now wows 'em as a math whiz," People, Printed version, 9/21/98, p. 149.
Danica McKellar played "Winnie Cooper," on the television program, "The Wonder Years" from 1988 to 1993 and also graduated from the UCLA Mathematics Department in June 1998. McKellar worked with fellow alumna, Brandy Winn and Professor L. Chayes on the paper, Percolation and Gibbs State Multiplicity for Ferromagnetic Ashkin-Teller Models in Two Dimensions. The work was published in Britain's "Journal of Physics A: Mathematics and General." McKellar is working on a math CD-ROM for kids while pursuing her acting career.
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