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I'm a mix of things, a physicist by education, I earn my living as a mathematician and programmer working at Wolfram Research. I thoroughly enjoy learning and discovery process.

“Technical skill is mastery of complexity, while creativity is mastery of simplicity”
— Erik Christopher Zeeman

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Modular exponentiation by hand ($a^b\bmod c$)
Nov 11, 2011
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Expectation of the maximum of gaussian random variables
Dec 6, 2011
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Probability for the length of the longest run in $n$ Bernoulli trials
Aug 25, 2011
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Integral: $\int_{-\infty}^{\infty} x^2 e^{-x^2}\mathrm dx$
Sep 20, 2011
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Lebesgue measurable set that is not a Borel measurable set
May 4, 2012
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Why is $\Gamma\left(\frac{1}{2}\right)=\sqrt{\pi}$?
Oct 17, 2012
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Is the integral $\int_0^\infty \frac{\mathrm{d} x}{(1+x^2)(1+x^a)}$ equal for all $a \neq 0$?
Dec 2, 2011
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Calculation of the n-th central moment of the normal distribution $\mathcal{N}(\mu,\sigma^2)$
Dec 19, 2011
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Prove elementarily that $\sqrt[n+1] {(n+1)!} - \sqrt[n] {n!}$ is strictly decreasing
Feb 8, 2013
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Characteristic function of a standard normal random variable
Nov 27, 2011
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RandomVariate from 2-dimensional probability distribution
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Peirce's quincuncial projection
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What is the most efficient way to add rows and columns to a matrix?
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Plotting an Unreasonable Function

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