It sounds like intellectually thorny stuff, but Kimber laughs at the suggestion. She thinks success in mathematical science has more to do with hard work, genuine interest, and with making good use of interaction with colleagues. M.D. Anderson, Rice, and Baylor are all here. Much of the time in science you collaborate. I don't think of it as a discipline in which you only work alone.
People learn from each other.
It's important to communicate. A researcher gets so much further that way. I want to understand how things work. Cooperating with biological scientists helps me create better and more applicable mathematical models. I try to make a model that clarifies the abstruse.