After her famous role as Winnie Cooper in the legendary TV series The Wonder Years McKellar studied at UCLA, majoring in mathematics, and graduated in 1998.
As an undergraduate, she coauthored a Scientific Paper with Professor Lincoln Chayes and fellow student Brandy Winn. The paper proves a theorem in mathematical physics that could be called the "Chayes-McKellar-Winn Theorem".
This paper makes her one of the very few people, and perhaps the only full-time acting professional besides Natalie Portman, with a finite Erdős-Bacon number. Referring to the mathematical abilities of his coauthor students, Chayes was quoted in the New York Times as saying, "I thought that the two were really, really first-rate."
McKellar even provides free online math tutoring for her fans at her official internet website.
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