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Gregory Clark

Biography

Gregory Clark is a math whiz. He took a year’s worth of math each semester his freshmen year in high school and since then has studied math at Calvin College. His teacher, Laurel Sanford, says Gregory not only has “exceptional math capability,” but also “great critical thinking skills and can use those skills in his writing.”

He is curious about a world outside of math too. He has learned how to knit, and this spring delved into philosophy courses at Calvin. For three summers, he helped build houses as a Habitat for Humanity volunteer. And partly because of financial support he was getting as a Young Scholar, he was able to tour Europe for three weeks as a student ambassador through People to People.

But Gregory’s greatest academic passion remains math, so much so that he gets agitated about “good” math students who memorize formulas rather than fully understanding the mysteries of math. Someday, Gregory would like to try to fix that habit, at least for his own students, as a professor, a career he hopes will allow him to pass along his own “genuine curiosity for mathematics.”

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