KHANG AND MATH
When did my love for mathematics begin? Perhaps it started with family tradition, as my father, mother, uncles, and sister were all once math students at prestigious specialized schools in Vietnam, such as Quoc Hoc Hue High School for the Gifted, Lam Sơn High School in Thanh Hóa, and Le Quy Don High School in Vung Tau.
But maybe my love for mathematics became clearer when I started attending Mathnasium, a Thinking Math program from the United States, when I was still very young. There, I not only learned math but also played math-related games.
I achieved many accomplishments in mathematics during my primary and secondary school years, but I just enjoyed it without fully understanding why—until the moment when…