I appreciate a lot the beauty of mathematical ideas and I love talking about mathematics.
I appreciate a lot the beauty of mathematical ideas and I love talking about mathematics.
We formed a platform called Matematiğin Peşinde (In the Pursuit of Mathematics) with Utku Aytaç and Ezgi Kantarcı Oğuz right after the İstanbul Mathematics Festival in 2019, to continue with such projects. We organized summer schools, public workshops, mathematics festivals, courses, translated books and websites (mathigon.org) to Turkish, started a YouTube channel, published weekly mathematics bulletins, ...etc with many volunteers, and for free. You can find the details at https://matematiginpesinde.com/projeler/.
In 2025 we became a non-profit association, and since summer 2026 we offer activities at our new location in İstanbul. Details at etkinlikler.matematiginpesinde.com.
In May 2019 , we organized a Mathematics Festival at Galatasaray University in İstanbul, Turkey which took place on May 4-5 with a group of 50 volunteers, and a big support from Prof. Meral Tosun. The event attracted around a thousand people, even from surrounding towns. You can read more about it at the festival's webpage.
I started to organize a one-day celebration event dedicated to mathematics on USC campus, a Mathematics Festival, in 2015. You can read more about our 2016 Mathematics Festival on this Daily Trojan article, about our 2017 Mathematics Festival on this USC Dornsife article and about our 2018 Mathematics Festival on this Daily trojan article.
There is a youtube channel dear to my heart: Pythagoras run by the one and only Haluk Memili. He is doing an amazing job by providing high quality, reliable mathematics content. I also wanted to contribute my share:
There is a village dear to my heart: Nesin Mathematics Village. I have been visiting this amazing place since 2008. It is a hidden paradise at the mountains of Şirince, İzmir where mathematicians from all over the place gather. Here are the videos of two courses I gave there, one on representation theory of the symmetric groups, other on history of mathematics:
We had to stop our face-to-face activites with the start of the Covid19 pandemic in March 2020, so we started a YouTube channel. We streamed over 100 videos, each about 1 hour long, on various topics in mathematics. Many of the videos are actually interviews with Turkish mathematicians, on their career paths and active research areas.