Writing

Below are some of the pieces I've written UConn's student newspaper, The Daily Campus:

Invisible Cities: This piece was inspired by Italo Calvino's novel of the same name, and measure theory.
On Pascal's Triangle: Here I wrote about one of my favorite things in math.
My Introduction to Agrarianism, An Agrarian Vocabulary, and An Agrarian View of Derangement are a series of pieces I wrote after reading Wendell Berry's The Art of Loading Brush and Amitav Ghosh's The Great Derangement.
Math and the Incommunicable Marvelous
On the Stories of Solutions: This was inspired by something my PDE professor said in lecture one day.
Cantor's Diagonal Argument, and Other Ways to Unravel Infinities
What Am I Missing?: This was during my Bob Dylan phase.
If You Have the Luxury of Monotony: Pandemic reflections, and an excuse to write about one of my favorite poets Rabindranath Tagore.
While Waiting: This was written on the week I learned that non-analytic functions exist! Which also happened to coincide with election week 2020.
Who is a College Student?: A piece I wrote about prison education.

Below is a poem I wrote that was accepted to the 2020-2021 Poetic Journeys, a collaboration between the UConn Creative Writing Department and the UConn Design Center.

Math and Literature: Some favorite quotes from that are either about math, or that reminded me of math or learning math when I read them.

"The equation on the page of his scribbler began to spread out a widening tail, eyed and starred like a peacock’s; and, when the eyes and stars of its indices had been eliminated, began slowly to fold itself together again. The indices appearing and disappearing were eyes opening and closing; the eyes opening and closing were stars being born and being quenched. "

James Joyce, "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man"

"...the sentences continue to move in vagueness, grayness, in a kind of no man's land of experience reduced to the lowest common denominator."

Italo Calvino, "If On a Winter's Night a Traveler"

"'Order' signifies the formal integrity by which a kind of creature or workmanship maintains its identity and remains recognizable even as it varies through time, adapting to difference and to change."

Wendell Berry, "The Art of Loading Brush"

"This is a landscape so dynamic that its very changeability leads to innumerable moments of recognition."

Amitav Ghosh, "The Great Derangement"

"O God, I could be bounded in a nutshell and count myself a king of infinite space, were it not that I have bad dreams."

Hamlet, Act II Scene II

"And in the poet's plangent dream I saw / no Lorelei upon the Rhone/ nor angels debarked at Marseilles / but couples [in] ... the sad water / in the ...spring / in an algebra of lyricism / which I am still deciphering."

Lawrence Ferlinghetti, "A Coney Island of the Mind" (Poems from "Pictures of the Gone World", 4)

"When one dives into endlessness...[She] must divide [her] universe in distances of a specific length, in compartments that repeat themselves in endless series...Let me give a more tangible example...Long before there were people on earth, crystals grew in the earth’s crust. One day a human being saw for the first time such a glimmering piece of regularity lying about, or he hit it with his stone pickax, and it broke off and fell in front of his feet and he picked it up and looked at it in his open hand and he was amazed. "