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Photo by Andrew George on Unsplash Out running errands the other day, I saw someone wearing a t-shirt that said “My working on a theory of everything shirt.” I struck up a conversation. He was a software engineer, like me. He was working on a physics theory of everything and said if it succeeded, I’dContinue reading “Staying Motivated on Independent Projects”

Photo by Roman Mager on Unsplash In high school, math is largely pattern matching: if the polynomial’s highest exponent is two, use the quadratic formula. As an undergraduate, the game changes. There’s a bigger element of problem solving. You now have a whole collection of tools, and it’s not obvious what you should use. IntegrationContinue reading “The Inspiration for Mathematician’s Assistant”