About

I am a self-taught mathematician. But what I taught myself wasn’t exactly the conventional mathematics that mathematicians are familiar with. For instance, I discovered, after a long trial-and-error process, that I should start from very basic layers of mathematics, where even natural numbers are not available and should be constructed. But since I had started from scratch, I could construct anything, not restricted by the set theory mentality, and as a former architect, that was simultaneously a curse and a blessing.
Not only did I discover how to do mathematics after a long period of search, but I discovered mathematics itself, in some ways unpredictably, in the midst of my explorations. Of course, I knew mathematics and had studied it in high school and college, but I never thought imagination was the pillar of mathematical construction. My first point of contact with the strange world of mathematics was when I was studying FT for signal processing for artistic purposes. I encountered the idea for the first time that waves could be considered dimensions of some space, instead of the boring perpendicular straight lines we experience in the 3-D real world. I was thrilled. I was then introduced to real and imaginary numbers, infinity and many more concepts that would bend my imagination.
I decided to set up this website and upload my writings, not because I’ve reached a coherent structure but because this is a journey that will take a long time. So I upload my writings gradually as I’m exploring the interesting world of mathematics.