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Essays

Short writing and reading notes

A concise home for unfinished mathematical writing and reading notes.

Popular exposition · Probability

Self-Avoiding Walks: Geometry, Polymers, and Criticality

How one local prohibition connects polymer geometry, combinatorial growth, critical exponents, and SLE.

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Popular exposition · Statistical mechanics

From Plus and Minus Signs to Phase Transitions: A Century of the Ising Model

How a two-state lattice model connects magnetism, critical phenomena, conformal invariance, and long-range interactions.

Ising model phase transition long-range Read essay
Mathematical Notes

Measure Theory Notes

Self-compiled notes, currently in progress.

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