SIMO Retiree Blog

(This is Yan Sheng.) In my mind, J. Kenji López-Alt is the greatest nerdsniper chef: he has made claims about cooking methods and techniques, based on experimental evidence, which have become the inspiration for later theoretical research.

(David here.) In this post I want to share a really interesting factoring algorithm that I learnt while taking an advanced cryptography class , and it will serve as a good springboard into talking about the mathematics and algorithms of lattices.

Wee Kean here. Happy New Years Eve! Lately, my only interaction with math has been through doing Project Euler. So... here's some cool things I've learnt! Unfortunately, there is hardly any structure to this blogpost so I apologize if this comes off as verbal diarrhea.

(This is Yan Sheng.) Today's blog post will be a change of pace from the usual contest math content: one day I was wondering to myself how many digits of $\sqrt2$ I could calculate by hand (who hasn't?). Math is more fun when you try stuff out for yourself, so here's some warm-up: