About
I am a student of mathematics and economics, drawn equally to the precision of a well-formed proof and the friction of an unresolved idea. This site collects essays written slowly — on things I find beautiful, difficult, or worth arguing about. Nothing here is finished. Everything here is meant.
You can reach me at elia@example.com.
Articles
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Wigner's famous phrase has aged into a cliché without losing its edge. Why should the Fourier transform, born from the study of heat, end up governing signal processing, quantum mechanics, and the shape of galaxies?
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Capital is stored time — the residue of past labour crystallised into something that can generate more of itself. Understanding compound growth is not merely a financial exercise; it is a meditation on patience, inequality, and the strange arithmetic of the future.
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The Stoics were not cold. They were precise. Their project was not the elimination of feeling but the cultivation of right judgement — a discipline as demanding, and as quietly revolutionary, as any mathematical proof.
Other
Reading
- Gödel, Escher, Bach — Hofstadter
- Capital in the 21st Century — Piketty
- Meditations — Marcus Aurelius
- What Is Mathematics? — Courant & Robbins
Listening
- Bach — Goldberg Variations
- Arvo Pärt — Spiegel im Spiegel
- Ravel — String Quartet in F