YUKARI ITO
Sylvie Paycha and Yukari Ito
At Nagoya University, I started a women’s lunch [and] we met one hour
a week […]. We didn’t necessarily discuss mathematics. We felt the
need to meet because we had less information than men who had more
opportunities to communicate with each other, and had so much more
information. […] We women in the field, not just mathematics, could not
get the same level of information, so we would meet up at this lunch and
share information, talk about our experiences, how we felt.
I’m happy that I get to do mathematics. I can think freely, and I’m very
happy when I discover new things. It’s also very interesting to have
different ideas than other people. These are the joys of mathematics.
Teaching math is also interesting. It makes me very happy when I see
that change in my students’ eyes or expressions, when they understand
something.