Robert "The Bobby Yaga" McNees @mcnees.bsky.social · 21/12/2024Cécile worked on whatever she found interesting, and she was famous for having a seemingly inexhaustible supply of thesis-level problems for curious students. (15/n) 1261
Robert "The Bobby Yaga" McNees @mcnees.bsky.social · 21/12/2024She had a "problem drawer" in one of her file cabinets — it may very well have been one of the drawers visible in this photo from the first tweet. When Cécile met with a new student, she'd pull something from the drawer for them to work on. (16/n) 1272
Robert "The Bobby Yaga" McNees @mcnees.bsky.social · 21/12/2024Many of my grad school friends (I did my PhD at UT-Austin, in an office around the corner from her) worked with Cécile and wrote papers on problems pulled from her drawer. (17/n) arxiv.org/abs/math-ph/... 1220
