Weatherford’s 2004 book Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World lays out the history of the Mongol Empire and its legacy states. The book remains an acclaimed steady-seller two decades after its writing, a feat especially difficult for a history book.
I want to introduce an interesting problem that gives rise to an important idea in mathematics. It is, actually, a common problem in middle school physics and mathematics.
uv, the next-generation python package manager. I first tried it out a few days ago, mostly out of frustration regarding pip. I made the mistake (or rather, my brew dependency made the mistake) of downloading homebrew python, and pip refused to update packages due to an external installation.
I discovered the world of measure theory and the Lebesgue (pronounced la-BEG) integral, when I was told that some functions cannot be integrated with Riemann sums. A more general integral, which has Riemann integrals as its subset, goes down an incredibly deep rabbit hole in the study of the reals.
On December 6th I visited Geumsan-gun, the southern tip of Chungcheong province. Staying at my grandmother’s place, I planned an ambitious stargazing session, expecting crystal clear weather from the forecast.
The area of an ellipse is given by $\pi a b$, where a and b are half-width and half-height – straightforward enough. But what about the arc length of an ellipse? Faced with a problem infinitely more complex than that of a circle, here mathematicians’ problems begin.
MicroGNUEmacs (or mg) has recently replaced Emacs as my primary code editor. The actively maintained editor is a haven for editor minimalists.
Professor Susskind’s legendary Stanford lectures on serious introductory physics are being compiled and published into books one by one.
Last week I started my journey with the Wolfram Language… for free!
One of Korea’s oldest, largest, and most prestigious marathons is held in Chuncheon, Gangwon Province. This year I returned since last participating in 2019.
I made this simple pacman clone nearly three years ago, when I was still a novice python programmer.
Last Saturday, in the midst of autumn’s subtle takeover, I visited Yesan County for Korea’s National Calligraphy Competition.
Hi all, I am a student living in South Korea.
My goal is to appreciate my place in the universe. Little moments when I am synthesizing knowledge, reveling in beauty, or being lost amidst the vastness of the world add up to this. For me, those moments happen when I do math, physics, programming, stargazing, calligraphy, and reading.
In an attempt to hold on to those moments a little longer, I decided to write them down. To make those moments last forever, I decided to share them here.
Thank you for your presence. Warm greetings to you all.
