Hello, I'm Arvind! I'm a high school junior with interests in math, music, physics, and CS (not necessarily in that order).
I find myself particularly drawn to the intersection of these fields, such as applying math to music via musical set or transformational theory, or using CS to model and analyze mathematical, biological, or physical processes.
I spend a lot of my time building small (open source) projects, learning various niche topics that I eventually realize are too complex for me to understand, composing/performing music, and doing homework (often times in that order).
Principles
I believe in the Free Software Foundation's philosophy surrounding free and open source software. My system thus minimizes proprietary code (and I've avoided NVIDIA like the plague), and I have tried to maximize my open source contributions and documentation.
I'm also an Arch Linux user (btw). I value simplicity, efficiency, and practicality above all else. Thus, I am also a Rustacean and program and use Rust projects when possible (e.g. Typst, Tauri, Helix).
In terms of my academic interests, I value intuition over formalism. Often, it's been the gaps in my intuition that motivate me to investigate topics and discover new ideas and ways of thinking.
Lastly, I'm a composer and musician, and thus music to me is not "organized sound". For me, it is a medium for communicating meaning through sound. Hyper-theoretical and overly complex music means nothing without a central message or theme, but sound that conveys such meaning, to me, at least, is music.1
Things I Like
Here are some texts/books/things/objects that I liked/am currently reading/exploring:
- Silence: Lectures and Writings, by John Cage
- Introduction to Classical Mechanics, by David Morin
- "Dialectal Variation and Mutual Intelligibility of Hindi in Delhi" , by Isha Bhola
- "Speaking out: A mathematical model of language preservation" , by Maria Díaz & Jennifer Switkes
Springer-Verlag Graduate Text in Mathematics
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If I were a Springer-Verlag Graduate Text in Mathematics, I would be Bela Bollobas's Modern Graph Theory. I am an in-depth account of graph theory, written with the student in mind; I reflect the current state of the subject and emphasize connections with other branches of pure mathematics. Recognizing that graph theory is one of several courses competing for the attention of a student, I contain extensive descriptive passages designed to convey the flavor of the subject and to arouse interest. Which Springer GTM would you be? The Springer GTM Test |
1 See 4'33" for an example of such music.