Estimating the doubling rate

If something is growing at a rate of 5% per year, how many years will it take until it doubles? Common wisdom suggests it’s approximately 70/5 = 14, but why?...

December 24, 2023

Solving Virginia Tech Regional Math Contest problems

Sharing my solutions to the Virginia Tech Regional Math Contest problems....

September 30, 2023

Derivation and intuition behind the quadratic formula

Let’s look at how we can solve the quadratic equation without using the memorized formula, and then derive the quadratic formula itself from scratch using our method of solving the quadratic equation....

May 28, 2022

Writing math with Hugo

Evaluation of KaTeX and MathJax, along with client-side rendering as well as static (server-side) rendering, trade-offs and feasibility, and a comparison of rendering and maintainability of the various options....

April 2, 2022