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Gödel, Turing, and the Mathematics of Horror

The Formal Foundations of Cosmic Dread

Lovecraft’s cosmic horror resonates because it taps into something formally provable: complete knowledge is impossible.

Not as a practical limitation. Not as epistemological humility. As a mathematical …

Philosophy

Mathematical Elegance in Software Design

The best software I’ve written has mathematical elegance—not because it uses advanced math, but because it embodies mathematical principles of abstraction, composition, and invariants.

What Mathematical Elegance Means

In mathematics, elegance …

Mathematics Master's Complete: Post-Mortem on Three Years

I defended my mathematics thesis yesterday. It’s done.

Three years. Two degrees. Stage 3 cancer. And now: MS in Mathematics and Statistics from SIUE.

October 13, 2023: Defense complete.

Time for a post-mortem on what worked, what didn’t, …

Why I'm Pursuing a Second Master's in Mathematics

I’ve decided to pursue a second master’s degree—this time in Mathematics and Statistics at SIUE.

People ask: “You already have an MS in Computer Science. Why go back?”

The Honest Answer

Computer science gave me tools. …

The Beauty of Mathematical Abstraction

I’ve been thinking more about mathematics lately—not just as a tool for computation, but as a mode of thought.

There’s something deeply satisfying about mathematical abstraction. The way a good theorem compresses complex phenomena into a …