So much working, reading, thinking, living to do! A lifetime is not long enough.
Sylvia Plath
Feynman's integration technique
04 August 2025
How does differentiating under the integral sign work for simple integrals?
826 May 2025
Numbers with only one prime number each as factors
10Forward-mode and reverse-mode autodiff in python featuring dual numbers and graph traversals
1126 March 2025
Masaki Kashiwara for contributions to algebraic analysis and representation theory
17On the products of $n$ consecutive numbers
21 November 2024
Why is the product of $n$ consecutive numbers always a multiple of $n.$
23New + Mersenne + Largest Prime Found
21 October 2024
After six long years, and for the first time using GPUs
28An Elliptic Curve with Rank $\ge$ 29 has been found
31 August 2024
more math news from Mathstodon
31On the sums of multiples of two numbers
23 August 2024
A pattern that has evaded explanation for a long time, so I'm posting it here.
32$x^n/n!$ and Stirling's Formula
15 August 2024
What is the size of the shift between two successive curves and how do you show that they intersect at integer points?
33A very nice ruler and compass geometry puzzle
14 June 2024
Find the shortest route between two points in a circle by touching the circumference along the route.
38International Women in Mathematics Day
12 May 2024
Remembering 2014 Fields Medallist Maryam Mirzakhani
4129 April 2024
Some fun questions I've been trying to solve on and off this month
4311 April 2024
Avi Wigderson for foundational contributions to the theory of computation.
4731 March 2024
A discontinuity paradox
4921 March 2024
Michel Talagrand for contributions to probability theory and functional analysis
5005 February 2024
My notes while trying to make sense of the Navier Stokes problem
5524 January 2024
Some notes on rod-cutting, LCS, and 0-1 Knapsack...
5807 January 2024
explicit constructions of sets with more unique pairwise sums than differences
6003 November 2023
a very elegant proof that I learnt after many hours of toil
6622 September 2023
Analysis of Entry A004207 in the OEIS
72A Variation of the Four Fours Problem
05 September 2023
Streaming while doing math
74Seam Carving — Energy Function
01 September 2023
Live Coding Seam Carving Part 2
76Conway's Game of Life is omniperiodic!
22 July 2023
A very good thread (with an unexpected Alexander crossover) from Mathstodon
8621 July 2023
an elegant problem with an even more elegant solution
87Einstein Summation Notation Exercises
13 July 2023
Exercises in faster and more intuitive tensor notation for deep learning.
89John Conway's Doomsday Algorithm
12 July 2023
This is a very good party trick to learn
90Faster Factorial Approximations
02 July 2023
Comparing factorial computation times vs. approximation as exponentiation, gamma functions, and Stirling's approximation.
92Convergence of an Arithmetic Mean Series
14 May 2023
Prove that a series where each term is the arithmetic mean of the previous two terms converges.
9521 March 2023
How I work with $\LaTeX$ locally instead of using OverLeaf
99Root Finding with Newton's Method
18 December 2022
Testing whether Newton's method decays updates exponentially
104Exercises in Number Theory [UFO]
05 December 2022
Proofs and solutions from "Elementary Introduction to Number Theory" by Calvin Long
10507 November 2022
One of these is not like the other
106Seam Carving — Intuition and Ideas
30 October 2022
Live Coding Seam Carving Part 1
10719 October 2022
some solutions I wrote up
10907 July 2022
Is it right?
11705 July 2022
number theory, sphere packing, and chromatic polynomials
11920 June 2022
The inbuilt ceil function was being very unwieldy. I prefer defining my own inline function now.
12023 January 2022
Storing a few results here for future use
132How Many Recursive Calls Does a Recursive Function Make?
17 January 2022
a wild fibonacci appears
133So, you think you're bad at math...
15 January 2022
A video from Prof. Courtney Gibbons I revisit a lot
13430 June 2020
Fermat's Last Theorem, Essay Writing and the return of La Liga and Serie A.
14131 May 2020
A revision of first principles and more mathematics
143Proof that $\exp(x)=\displaystyle\lim_{n\rightarrow\infty}\left(1+\frac{x}{n}\right)^{n}$
14 May 2020
A math-heavy but super elegant proof that I learnt
14530 April 2020
Mathematics mostly, with some code sprinkle-tossed in. Solving puzzles never felt more exhilarating.
14614 April 2020
Analysis and Solutions for the 2020 edition of Google's annual Code Jam competition.
14719 November 2019
Notes for a lecture I gave as an undergrad
151