It never ceases to amaze me that sometimes in combinatorics the difference between an elementary school problem and a lifelong career in math is one additional sentence in a problem statement. Bal...

IMC 2024 problem 5 Every year the University College London hosts the International Mathematics Competitions for College Students (IMC), which is often hosted in Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria. I participa...

This post explores the solution of a problem I proposed to my undergrad students when I was a TA in a computational molecular biology course. It involves palindromes so readers who suffer from aibo...

This is post explores the basis for the wavefront alignment algorithm, a 2020 paper that finds the alignment between two sequences \(A\) and \(B\) in \(O((|A| + |B|)s)\), where \(s\) is the alignme...

The full source code for this post can be found on GitHub. This post was motivated by the following question: what would be the simplest problem we could formulate to introduce a computer science ...

I am configuring this blog if I want to communicate, write or document things using markdown and figures. This post is to test if I can write some code with syntax highlight and some math. Here’s ...