I am a structural engineer that has spent a lifetime of using numbers to make buildings stand up and sometimes, to explain why they don’t! I enjoying seeing beauty in the world through striving to understand the analytical principles that underpin our life. As a hobby, I like to read mathematics and physics to underpin a deeper understanding of the analysis in the world. Rather than keep this learning to myself, I chose to inflict it on the world in this blog as motivation to keep learning.
I first enjoyed structural mechanics. Modelling elements in building to predict safe performance. Behind the scenes is the mathematics. In Engineering, we learn to use the mathematics, but as I learn more each day, the mathematics that we use has a deep and rich structure to it. A fascination with gravity led me through Newton’s work to Special Relativity and then to General Relativity. The mathematics that acts as scaffold, while difficult is fascinating. The more I learn, the more I realise that basic structures as more involved than ever I thought.
For a little more discourse, see this post.
“The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existence.”
— Albert Einstein
“Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas.”
— Albert Einstein
The writing here is in two general forms. The first are study articles that go from the foundation of mathematics, set theory, to the structures that are used in science and physics. The second, are posts on life observations where concepts form maths and science exist.
The site is a personal project to maintain a motivation in learning.