Other Writing
This page collects some of my writing on miscellaneous topics that don’t fit naturally onto any of the other pages, sorted roughly chronologically. Some of the longer documents are consequences of my tendency towards procrasti-writing, where I find it much easier to make progress writing about less consequential topics rather than the homework problems, research papers, or referee reports I’m supposed to be generating.
- Mathematics Job Market Notes.
- Detailed commentary about my experiences applying for academic jobs in mathematics in the US. Also includes links to some resources developed for Math 581.03 at WSU, which is a professional development course for graduating students.
- Cribbage-Poker Rules.
- A modified ruleset for the game of Cribbage that my wife and I developed. It adds a betting phase and several categories of bonus points to speed up play.
- Pickleball Notes and Diagrams.
- Some strategy thoughts about the game of pickleball, as well as a collection of diagrams for drills typeset with tikzlings. The .pdf also contains some detailed point breakdowns from a recorded 2016 Atlantic Regionals match. A flask app I maintain for running pickleball leagues and tournaments can be found here, and a widget for computing pairings for 4-24 player rotating partner round robin tournaments is here. This short analysis compares some different King's Court methods for rec play.
- Pan Galactic Solitaire.
- A Python version (compiled for Windows) of Pan Galactic Solitaire as introduced by Peter Doyle in the context of set-theoretic division without choice.
- Applied Mathematics and Network Science.
- This is a short piece describing my personal philosophy of applied mathematics and addressing the differences between graphs and networks.
- The Written Qual Book (with D. Freund).
- This is a 274 page book containing solutions to all of the written qualifying exam problems that were given in the Dartmouth Math Department from 2012-2017. In addition to the solutions, we included 20 pages of expository material on how to survive graduate school and many helpful appendices. There are also 60 pages of notes, commentary, and context to supplement the formal solutions.