Simon Xiang

Blog

A collection of (mainly old) posts I've written.

  1. What I've Been Studying: Attack of the Categories9 min readmathematicscategory theorytopology
  2. All Voting Systems are Fundamentally Screwed5 min readmathematicsvoting theory
  3. My Experience With Graduate vs Undergraduate Level Courses4 min readmathematicseducation
  4. Math is Hard Because Our Short Term Memory Sucks3 min readmathematicsmathematical culture
  5. Linear Algebra and Its Applications, Part 2: Derivatives5 min readmathematicslinear algebra
  6. Algebra vs. Analysis: How do you eat your corn on the cob?2 min readmathematicsmathematical culture
  7. I'm Never Going to Finish Reading Infinite Jest2 min readbookspersonal
  8. Linear Algebra and Its Applications, Part 1: An Introduction2 min readmathematicslinear algebra
  9. Proving RSA Encryption: An Application of Group Theory (Part 3: Digital Signatures and Euler's Totient Function)2 min readmathematicscryptographynumber theory
  10. Proving RSA Encryption: An Application of Group Theory (Part 2: Fermat's Little Theorem and Ring Theory)7 min readmathematicscryptographynumber theory
  11. Proving RSA Encryption: An Application of Group Theory (Part 1: Asymmetric Encryption)4 min readmathematicscryptographynumber theory
  12. Topological Continuity: Simplicity in Abstraction3 min readmathematicstopology