Rule 5 Saturday - The Wonder - Danica McKellar

This Rule 5 post was prompted by this news article on how Danica McKellar, best known for starring as Fred Savage's junior high and high school squeeze, Winnie Cooper, in "The Wonder Years" (1988-1993) was starring in a new Avril Lavigne video, and dressed in fishnet stockings (right).

Winnie Danika has been working pretty steadily ever since, in both feature films and TV.  However, she took the time along the way to explore some different paths, going to UCLA and studying mathematics. 

McKellar studied mathematics at UCLA, graduating summa cum laude in 1998. As an undergraduate, she coauthored a  with Professor Lincoln Chayes and fellow student Brandy Winn entitled "Percolation and Gibbs states multiplicity for ferromagnetic Ashkin-Teller models on z2." Their results are termed the 'Chayes–McKellar–Winn theorem'.Referring to the mathematical abilities of his student coauthors, Chayes was quoted in The New York Times as saying, "I thought that the two were really, really first-rate." McKellar's Erdős number is four. She is one of the few people with an Erdős–Bacon number, which combines an Erdős number with a Bacon Number (as in the game Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon) since she also has a Bacon number of 2, making her Erdos-Bacon number a 6.

Not bad!  Still, though, she seems to have rejected the high life of mathematics for the mundane world of Hollywood, starring in such high budget films as "Tasmanian Devil", (2013) which I watched recently on SciFi on a windy afternoon.  While not quite to the level of Sharknado! in campiness, I must say that she filled out the Tasmanian Ranger outfit quite nicely.