What Happens to the Kid Who Places 400th
Selection systems are designed around the people they select. This one produces roughly a hundred thousand participants and thirty selections, and has no answer …
Read →Mathematics
Olympiad Math Rewards Solving. Research Rewards Asking.
Competition trains you to find the answer to a question someone else guaranteed has one. Research requires deciding which question is worth asking and whether …
Read →India Selects Its Mathematicians Too Late
The funnel starts at roughly one lakh students and ends at six. The problem is not that it is narrow, because it has to be. The problem is where it starts and …
Read →A Short History of How Mathematicians Started Pricing Risk
Bachelier to Black-Scholes to microstructure, and the point somewhere in the last twenty years where the field stopped receiving new theory and started fitting …
Read →Differences Between Olympiad Math and Research Math
A reflection on the differences between olympiad math and research math, and what each prepares you for.
Read →IITBMO 2026: A Day of Quiet, Problems, and Perspective
Reflections from participating in the IIT Bombay Mathematics Olympiad 2026.
Read →