About me

I am a first-year graduate student at UCLA who aspires to be a number theorist. Obviously, I am yet to explore what kind of number theory I want to do, and I look forward to this long and exciting adventure.

I graduated from West Vancouver Secondary School, located at West Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. I completed my undergraduate degree at Dartmouth College, located at Hanover, New Hampshire. I majored in mathematics and graduated with High Honours.

My Erdős number is 2. The shortest path is Paul Erdős - Carl Pomerance - me.

Why number theory?

I was rather lucky that I could decide on my interest during my undergraduate years.
During my second year at Dartmouth College, I had a chance to take a fantastic course on elementary number theory, followed by an undergraduate-level (!) course on elliptic curves. Fascinated by number theory, I again engaged in a number theory project at an REU (Research Experiences for Undergraduates) hosted by Kansas State University (for results, see Rational linear spaces under Publications), and had a fantastic time there. My undergraduate honours thesis was also on number theory, written under the guidance of the wonderful mentor Prof. Carl Pomerance (for results, see Variant of a theorem of Erdős under Publications).

Besides my natural inclination to piddle around with numbers, the series of events during my undergraduate years (which is somewhat expected, given my love with playing around with numbers) led me to number theory.

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