“When I ‘decided’ to become a mathematician, it was not a decision. I could not do otherwise. You don’t decide to fall in love with somebody. It just happens.”

“A student desperately trying to evaluate a definite integral at wit's end shows up at von Neumann's office for any suggestion of an approach. Von Neumann thinks for a few moments and tells him the value of the integral. The student, amazed and dismayed at the absence of any details, respectfully requests that von Neumann ‘explain it a different way.’ Von Neumann thinks some more and cheerfully announces that both ways yield the announced value.”

my papers

the math papers i write will eventually live here; this summer ('26), i will write a fairly significant (by my standards) paper with the uchicago math reu ; this will likely remain empty until then.

my coursework

i denote the classes i particularly enjoyed with a ✦

  1. cmsc 28130; honors introduction to complexity theory (s26) (ongoing)
  2. stat 24500; statistical theory and methods ii (s26) (ongoing)
  3. math 23500; markov chains, martingales, and brownian motion (s26) (ongoing)
  4. math 20500; analysis in rn iii (s26) (ongoing)
  5. stat 24400; statistical theory and methods i (w26)
  6. math 20400; analysis in rn ii (w26)
  7. math 20300; analysis in rn i (f25) ✦
  8. math 20250; abstract linear algebra (f25)