From Russia with caviar: a meal fit for a maths student

When my mum whisked the family to Moscow for a maths gathering, we ended up with far too many roubles. So we spent them on caviarA thing you should know about pure mathematicians is that they are like blue whales – there aren’t a lot of them around, so they have to travel vast distances to spawn ideas. Every four years there is a global gathering, to which they all converge for the spawning. One year, they converged on an atomic weapons research station outside Moscow. This being the