VT College of Science Magazine Annual 2014 | Page 4

Calculating the future
sons follow in
M anysome daughters.their fathers’ footsteps – and so, too,
do

When Yuriko Renardy was born in Sapporo, Japan, her father
was a mathematician in functional analysis, or what Renardy says he described as a “pure math.” He took the family
to the United States when she was a toddler to spend two
years as a Fulbright