Stony Brook student earns prestigious Churchill Scholarship
Kevin Sackel, a senior at Stony Brook University, was recently named one of 14 Churchill scholars and will get an all-expense paid master's degree education at the University of Cambridge in England. Videojournalist: Jessica Rotkiewicz (Feb. 15, 2013) (February 19, 2013 5:53 AM)
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Kevin Sackel has long seen beauty and elegance in a complex math theorem.
In middle school, the Bethpage native learned 4th-century Greek mathematician Euclid's proof that there are infinitely many prime numbers, and he was hooked.
"I was astounded at how pretty it was," said Sackel, 21. "That really turned me on to math."
A graduating senior at Stony Brook University with a double...
