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

Introduction to a Renormalisation Group Method by Bauerschmidt, Brydges, and Slade.

Morse Theory by Milnor.

Lecture Notes on Quantum Algorithms for Scientific Computation by Lin.

2024

Lectures on Optimal Transport by Ambrosio, Brué, and Semola.

Algebraic Topology by Hatcher.

Fiction and Nonfiction

My Friends by Hisham Matar.

Five Ways to Forgiveness by Ursula LeGuin.

Mountains

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

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