Dr. Neil Hindman is a Professor Emeritus at the Department of Mathematics, Howard University, Washington, DC. As of October 20, 2021, Dr. Hindman has authored and co-authored 205 scientific papers (if we counted correctly) and directed 20 doctoral dissertations. With Donna Strauss, he co-authored the book "Algebra in the Stone–Čech compactification – theory and applications."

In a conversation with students from Simon Fraser University, Payal Payal, Stephen Ng, Harleen Kaur, and Knute Hardin, Dr. Hindman talks about his first experiences with mathematics, shares his experience of being a graduate student and a research mathematician, and talks about how he proved the famous Hindman's theorem.