I am a first-year grad student at SUNY Albany, pursuing a PhD in math. Previously I attended Union College, a small college in upstate New York, where I started off majoring in computer engineering, but soon realized a love for pure mathematics and a bit of a dislike for the physical side of computers. Although I love computer programming, I’m much more interested in the theoretical side of computers–the intersection of computer science with math. By the time I decided to switch to a math major, I was only a few courses away from completing the computer engineering, so I spent a fifth year getting a double-major. Now I’m diving full-time into pure math and loving it. I also enjoy teaching mathematics, and I intend to stay in academia my whole life as a math professor.
I love mathematics with an almost religious passion, but my interests are quite broad and I expect to write about them all in due time on this blog. Among my favorites are nature and art, and increasingly these days I combine them as nature photography (two examples of which can be seen my header). I also combine mathematics and art (and sometimes even nature as well) in my knitting and crocheting. My work can be seen on deviantART, where I am fairly active.
The third major subject I intend to blog about is religion and philosophy. I am a passionate atheist, humanist, and skeptic, and one of my goals is to break the negative stereotypes and misconceptions many people have about atheists. My personal philosophy is positive, optimistic, and focused on helping others as well as myself. While I enjoy arguing with religious folks, I try not to pick fights and I am interested in these debates primarily as an intellectual exercise and a learning opportunity for both sides, rather than to “win”.
I am active in several online communities, among them deviantART, the Jasper Fforde Forum, H2G2, and Friendly Atheist Forums. If you’ve followed me here from any of them, stop and say hi! If you haven’t, go check them out!
I’ve seen your site, very professional and I might pop back to see what you are doing. Arith
I would like to put a link to your graph page, it is somewhat less formal than Wikipedia. I don’t know how to do it yet but it will complement my perverse introduction eluding to graph theory, and add breadth to my page.
Go for it, though my intro is extremely sparse and non-rigorous. I think the Wikipedia page is pretty decent, but it certainly is long. I like your site so far, and as long as you link to me I’m happy to contribute!
Your useful posts: I Believe in Ø, pt. I and I Believe in Ø, pt. II, links are broken.
Nevermind. Links are just funny.
Thanks, I was aware of the problem but I just keep forgetting to fix it. The links worked when I first set up that sidebar, but in the meantime WordPress seems to have eaten the urls for those posts (serves me right for putting fancy characters in the titles).
Well, it ends up sort of saying
which seems cute.
I wonder if I got the LaTeX. 50-50.
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