Vamshi Jandhyala
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Mathematical writing · Short Excursions

Contents

20 chapters. Shorter pieces gathered by topic: expository notes, solved puzzles and small computations, most also set as an A4 PDF.

  1. Geometry
  2. 1Inversion in Geometry
  3. 2The Apollonian Gasket
  4. 3Islamic Geometric Patterns
  5. 4Cozy Circles in Regular Polygons
  6. Probability
  7. 5A Faulty Traffic Signal
  8. 6Expected Distance of a Random Point from the Centre of a Regular Polygon
  9. 7Appeasing the Cherry Blossom Horde
  10. 8Charlotte's New Web
  11. 9Running Total of a Die
  12. 10Knights on a Chessboard
  13. Combinatorics and games
  14. 11Subsets of {1,…,n} with Exactly One Pair of Consecutive Integers
  15. 12One Hat Comes Home
  16. 13Chess Capture Digraphs
  17. 14Solving the Jumping Julia Maze
  18. Logic puzzles and solvers
  19. 15Solving the LinkedIn Queens Puzzle with Z3
  20. 16Building a LinkedIn Tango Solver with Z3
  21. 17Posidoku
  22. Physics and computation
  23. 18Maximising the Length of a Projectile Trajectory
  24. 19Orbits to Scale, and What an Eclipse Actually Is
  25. On mathematics
  26. 20Beautiful problems deserve beautiful typesetting