Reading

As a I begin my PhD, I aim to catalogue the books and survey papers that I read (at least in part). At the bottom of this page, you can also find some fiction and nonfiction that I’ve enjoyed recently.

2025

A Guide to Feynman Diagrams in the Many-Body Problem by Richard Mattuck.

Log-Concave Sampling by Sinho Chewi.

A Short Introduction to the Lindblad Master Equation by Daniel Manzano.

The Self-Avoiding Walk by Neal Madras and Gordon Slade.

The Quantum Many-Body Problem: Methods and Analysis by Michael Lindsey.

Principles of Quantum Mechanics by Ramamurti Shankar.

Introduction to Quantum Mechanics by David J. Griffiths.

Statistical Field Theory by David Tong.

Galois Theory by Emil Artin.

A Mathematical Introduction to Electronic Structure Theory by Lin Lin and Jianfeng Lu.

Introduction to a Renormalisation Group Method by Roland Bauerschmidt, David C. Brydges, and Gordon Slade.

Morse Theory by John Milnor.

Lecture Notes on Quantum Algorithms for Scientific Computation by Lin Lin.

2024

A Mathematical Guide to Operator Learning by Nicolas Boullé and Alex Townsend.

Lectures on Optimal Transport by Luigi Ambrosio, Elia Brué, and Daniele Semola.

Algebraic Topology by Allen Hatcher.

Fiction and Nonfiction

The Tsar of Love and Techno by Anthony Marra

A Constellation of Vital Phenomena by Anthony Marra

Ishmael by Daniel Quinn

A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini

i have wrestled with the way clouds weep by Judy Nahum

The Myth of Sisyphus by Albert Camus

Hiroshima Notes by Kenzaburō Ōe

American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer by Kai Bird & Martin Sherwin

Saints and Villains by Denise Giardina

My Friends by Hisham Matar

Five Ways to Forgiveness by Ursula LeGuin

Mountains

This immensely impressive description of a family’s circumnavigation of Mt. Olympus in Washington’s Olympic Mountains.

This compelling report of climbing all of Wyoming’s remote 13ers by Eli Boardman.