The Philosophy of Beauty
Exploring the elegant intersection of Mathematics and Physics
Mathematics and Physics... These two are really something I enjoy. Each time I read something of maths or physics, it really forces me to think how beautiful and elegant things are. How can something born from our mind describe this world so perfectly?
Image taken by my friend Subham Chakraborty
This fascination forces me to always try to find patterns and beauty in the theories. Through this website, I want to show others exactly how beautiful these fields can be.
Here is a map of different fields of physics, and I love to run around all the parts.
"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.
A Ode to Physics
In the realm of particles, small and grand,
Quantum Field Theory, a mathematical stand,
Group theory dances with symmetries bright,
Unraveling particles, in quarks their flight.
Lie algebras and representations intertwine,
Mapping the forces, a mathematical shrine,
Gauge symmetries weave through QFT's tale,
Unifying particles, in equations frail.
Through fields and groups, a new world appears,
Where mathematical beauty conquers all fears,
In quantum realms, symmetries hold sway,
QFT and group theory, their dance will stay.
Recently Published
Tree Codes: Recreating Hernquist (1987)
Recreating Hernquist's 1987 paper on the performance of Barnes-Hut tree codes, from scratch in Julia: the Plummer model, the leapfrog integrator, the multipole expansion and every timing and error test in the paper.
The Expanding Universe — with Cosmic.jl
A five-part tour through cosmology (Baumann, Chapters 2, 5 and 6): the homogeneous universe's geometry, kinematics, dynamics and thermal history, then how tiny perturbations grow into galaxies — with every result checked numerically against my Julia package Cosmic.jl.
Minkowski Functionals: Measuring the Shape of the Universe
A first-principles guide to Minkowski functionals: from 'what is shape?' through Hadwiger's theorem, curvature, the Steiner inflation formula, and the Hermite-ladder Gaussian predictions, to measuring non-Gaussianity in cosmology. Physical analogies (a flooding landscape), full derivations, symbolic checks in SymPy and WolframScript, numerical checks in Python and Julia, and an interactive 3D water-level widget.
Grassmann Algebra: Multiplying with Area and Orientation
A friendly, visual introduction to Grassmann (exterior) algebra: the wedge product, bivectors, orientation, multivector grades, and the tensor-algebra quotient definition — with runnable SageMath and SymPy code. The first part of a mini-series leading to Clifford algebras and spinors.
The Physics of Neutrinos: Chirality, Helicity, and Parity Violation
What chirality, helicity and parity violation actually mean, and where they come apart once the neutrino has mass: Weyl spinors and the gamma-5 projector, the (m/2E)^2 ~ 10^-17 gap between chirality and helicity, why the pion refuses to decay into an electron, V-A theory and the group structure behind it, and Dirac versus Majorana mass with the seesaw.
A Pedestrian's Guide to FORM for Particle Physics (via Julia)
Tutorial for learning FORM.