Files & Books

Notes

Ongoing

Completed

• Fractal Notes for UChicago REU 2021 - I've found fractals to be very helpful for thinking about complexity.
• STAT 24400 - Winter 2020, taught by Dr. Rina Barber
• STAT 24500 - Spring 2021, taught by Dr. Chao Gao
• STAT 34300 - Autumn 2022, taught by Dr. Rina Barber
• STAT 26100 - Autumn 2022, taught by Dr. Wei Bao Wu

Papers

• (in progress) How Stedi Uses Automated Reasoning for Access Control Policy Verification
• An Exploration of Transaction Set Identification
• Evolutionary Game Dynamics: Finite Populations
• Overview of The Multifractal Model of Asset Returns - UChicago REU 2021
• Equivalent Notions of Entropy Under Ergodicity - UChicago REU 2020

Books

Completed - 2022

• The Origin of Wealth: The Radical Remaking of Economics and What it Means for Business and Society - Eric D. Beinhocker
• Global Capitalism: Its Fall and Rise in the Twentieth Century - Jeffrey A. Frieden
• The Courage to be Disliked - Ichiro Kishimi & Fumitake Koga
• The Wandering Earth - Cixin Liu
• Debt: The Last 5,000 Years - David Graeber (dropped)
• The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
• The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World - Niall Ferguson
• Animal Spirits: How Human Psychology Drives The Economy, and Why It Matters For Global Capitalism - George A. Akerlof & Robert J. Shiller
• The Perfectionists: How Precision Engineers Created The Modern World - Simon Winchester

Completed - 2021

• The Innovation Delusion: How Our Obsession with the New Has Disrupted the Work That Matters Most - Lee Vinsel & Andrew L. Russell
• 101 Things I Learned in Architecture School - Matthew Frederick
• The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger - Marc Levinson
• Leonardo da Vinci - Walter Isaacson
• What Has Passed Shall in Kinder Light Appear - Baoshu (Li Jun)
• The Psychology of Money: Timeless Lessons on Wealth, Greed, and Happiness - Morgan Housel
• Samsung Rising: The Inside Story of the South Korean Giant That Set Out to Beat Apple and Conquer Tech - Geoffrey Cain
• The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and The Age of Amazon - Brad Stone
• Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed - James C. Scott
• Normal People - Sally Rooney
• Warfighting - U.S. Marine Corps
• Upheaval - Jared Diamond
• The (Mis)behavior of Markets - Benoit Mandelbrot, Richard Hudson
• The Biggest Bluff: How I Learned to Pay Attention, Master Myself, and Win - Maria Konnikova
• On China - Henry Kissinger