Victoria's Personal Page

"The Universe is a magical place, so don't be a muggle"

email: vgitman@nylogic.org

office: Namm 707

On Amrut's bike in Nagpur, India.

My family emigrated from Kiev, Ukraine (back then it was the Soviet Union) to the United States when I was 10 years old. We ended up in New York and have been here ever since. New York is a great place if you want to feel like you have traveled the world over by just taking the subway.

I completed my undergraduate degree in Mathematics at Brooklyn College, CUNY and my Ph.D. in Mathematics at the Graduate Center, CUNY under Joel David Hamkins.

I am married to the greatest guy in the world, Amrut. Amrut has a Master's degree from New York University in applied mathematics and is currently working for the firm of Cantor Fitzgerald as a financial analyst.

We are both great devotees of science and technology. He is an experimentalist and I am a theoretician. Our favorite pastimes are studying, cooking delicious food, discussing politics in candle light, and long walks. My favorite pastimes are learning or creating mathematics, reading, spending time with friends, shopping, and home decor.

Here is my all-time favorite quote:

Men fear thought more than they fear anything else on earth - more than ruin, more even than death.
Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible;
thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habits;
thought is anarchic and lawless, indifferent to authority, careless of the will - tried wisdom of the ages.
Thought looks into the pit of hell and is not afraid.
It sees man, a feeble speck, surrounded by unfathomable depths of silence,
yet bears itself proudly, as unmoved as if it were lord of the universe.
Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world and the chief glory of man.

....Bertrand Russell