About Me

Hi, my name is Jake. I am a senior in high school this year. I am going to be writing this blog about The unsolved problems and conjectures of math. I am writing about this because I have always loved math. Math is a way of expressing and understanding everything, making it one of the greatest things to exist. I chose specifically the unsolved problems because, some people think that the math for everything has been solved, and that is simply not true. I also chose unsolved problems because that includes math for the sake of math. I mean that some of these problems once solved will not change physics or put cold fusion reactors in every home, it will not end world hunger. Instead some of these problems once solved will simply make sense of math, for math’s own gain.

If I have not already given you a good enough impression of my interest in math, some of my favorite movies include: Stand and deliver, The Good Will Hunting, and A Beautiful Mind. Which I highly recommend to anyone who has an interest in math. My non math related movie interests include Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure, Better off Dead, and Wayne’s World. All of which are 80’s comedy classics that you should own.

I also rather enjoy classic rock, that being everything from Bryan Adams to Metallica. I find that Van Halen and partial fractional decomposition work great together. In all seriousness though, I simply enjoy rocking out as I do my math homework. To give you a little more information my favorite bands include: Def Leppard, U2, Boston, ACDC, and Scorpions.

Outside of math, I am a running enthusiast. I participate in both track and cross country. I also have completed two Ragnars, and am planning to do a marathon this summer. I find it relaxing and a great way to get outdoors. I find that when I say some of these things to people, they look at me like I am crazy. There is a back to the future quote in which when doc brown tells some individuals that in the future people run for recreation, they burst out laughing. I am used to this response, and if you knew some of the 100 or even 200-mile foot races that people do in the their 70’s, you would find what I do mediocre.

I hope to an engineer one day. I am not entirely sure what kind of engineer I want to be, but there is a good amount a flexibility in that. Unfortunately, there is not a do whatever you feel interested in at the moment kind of engineer, or least one that pays well. So on top of math I also really enjoy physics. I was originally thinking about writing my blog about String theory, but I already wrote a 15-page paper about that last semester, and that would not get me anywhere. This way I get to mix it up a little.

That is about it for information about me, but I am not going to lie to you I hate writing. Unfortunately, colleges make it required for some reason I still do not understand, but I will still try my best to use this writing medium to communicate my math endeavors, and discoveries to my audience. At times I will probably lose some of you in the rambling of the enteral workings of some obscure equation, but I hope to improve on that, and spread the great subject that is math.