About Me
Hi,
I’m Brian and I am currently a sophomore here at Harvard that’s majoring in Mathematics, which is the science of order. Mathematicians seek to identify instances of order and to formulate and understand concepts that enable us to perceive order in complicated situations. The most important concept of mathematics perhaps is that of function, which provides us with the means to study dependence and change.
The concentration in Mathematics is designed to acquaint the student with the most important general concepts underlying the three branches of modern mathematics: calculus, algebra, and geometry. Because so many disciplines now rely on the mathematical sciences, a concentration in mathematics provides a valuable background for many different careers.
Besides being a mathematician, I am also a break-dancer. Break-dancing is a style of street dance that originated among African American and Puerto Rican youths in New York City during the early 1980s. Break-dancing is typically danced to hip-hop, funk music, and especially breakbeats, although modern trends allow for much wider varieties of music along certain ranges of tempo and beat patterns.
Besides the range of music, there’s also a diversity in the amount of variation available in the dance. However, break-dancing consists of four kinds of movement: toprock, downrock, power moves, and freezes. My favorite is freezes, which are stylish poses that require the breaker to suspend himself or herself off the ground using upper body strength in poses such as the pike. They are used to emphasize strong beats in the music and often signal the end of a b-boy set. Freezes can be linked into chains or “stacks” where breakers go from freeze to freeze to freeze in order to hit the beats of the music which displays musicality and physical strength. In order to get the freezes down, you need to have precise timing and incredible rhythm.
My name is Brian, and I am a boy-b mathematician at Harvard, who specializes in freeze movements and calculus.
Anthony Tham, a friend of mine created this page. He is a marketing assistant at Argopoint LLC, a legal consulting firm that specializes in Legal Operations.