#He has among the least nerdy vibes I've seen a maths prof give off

[ante--meridiem]

Dynamical systems lecturer is apparently huge LoTR fan.

Choice quotes include "mathematicians are scientists who went into a cave too long with their models and became Gollum", "maths is a social endeavour, you're not Saruman making Urukhai in his tower", and "that was an obscure sentence, sometimes I speak the language of Mordor".