About the Site
Math is dynamic, visually interesting, and accessible to all. Down the Mathhole is an accumulation of my math-adjacent interactive curiosities, written in p5.js. I want to share them in case they inspire others to play with math and gain enlightenment.
About the Author
I have been using computers to visualize math since 1993. Written in Apple Basic, my first visualization displayed my personal returns in the Stock Market Game. In high school, I wrote programs on my TI calculator to solve and visualize math and physics problems. I majored in math and physics at a top US university, where I participated in Putnam, dabbled in high-energy particle physics research, and tutored math and physics (often in an impromptu setting using chalk on walls and sidewalks). I completed my PhD in physics with a research focus on co-evolution and emergent phenomena in spiking neural nets, but my true love was teaching courses and tutoring physics. I used MATLAB to visualize networks for my research and conduction electrons for my students. After grad school, I was a professor at a small college for several years, which felt uncomfortably confining, before I made a transition into the ed-tech industry.
License
This site is licensed under a MIT License.
Acknowledgments
A special thanks to all of the excellent teachers who influenced me, and the p5.js and KaTeX communities for making this possible