About the author

I’m interested in mathematics, science, and engineering. But really I’m interested in using reason to understand the world. I adamantly refuse to be more specific. In this blog, you’ll find a few of my feeble attempts to contribute some small iota to the sum total of human knowledge. Most of the time, though, I’m not trying to discover anything new, but rather convince myself of something that much smarter people already understand. I just don’t trust them.

Like me, you may be plagued or blessed with many questions. I’ve always felt that there are people who want to know the answer and people who want to understand how to get the answer. I am unabashadely and forever part of team that believes “how we get the answer is infinitely more important than any particular answer.”

I have an undergraduate degree in engineering and a master’s degree in mathematics, but not in that order. My academic research has focused on high performance computing and computational fluid dynamics, but I’m excited to see where things go next. Here’s an example from code that I wrote – blastwaves expanding in an inviscid compressible gas.