Archive
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Life
- Ending 2025 in HK: Exotericism/esotericism
- An Autumn in Hong Kong: Input/output
- Finding English Classics in HK and Shenzhen
- Final term at Oxford: Truth-seeking and Storytelling
- An Easter in UK and HK: Bookshops and Cinemas
- Tenth Term at Oxford: Fleeting Present
- A Summer in Hong Kong: Adapting to Change
- Third Year at Oxford: Exams
- Third Easter in Oxford: Extended Essay
- Eighth Term at Oxford: Reading and Thinking
- Third Christmas in Oxford: Professional vs Personal
- Seventh Term at Oxford: Maths Applied
- Second Summer in Oxford: Bristol and Cambridge
- Second Year at Oxford: Ring binders
- Second Easter in Oxford: Writing and Walking
- Fifth Term at Oxford: 9 to 5
- Second Christmas in Oxford: Walking
- DIY Pin Board of Tools and More
- Fourth Term at Oxford: Lectures and Routines
- First Summer in Oxford: Sunlight and Heatwaves
- First Year at Oxford: Urgency and Importance
- Second Term at Oxford: Skipping lectures
- First Term at Oxford: Work, work, work
Reviews
- Norwegian Wood - Haruki Murakami
- War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
- Intersection - Liu Yi Chang
- From Immigrant to Inventor - Mihajlo Pupin
- A Brighter Summer Day
- Perfect Days
- The Creative Act - Rick Rubin
- Networking to network - Phil Agre
- I Want to be a Mathematician - Paul Halmos
- The Art of Doing Science and Engineering - Richard Hamming
Career
- Opportunities learning maths beyond the syllabus in HK
- Tackling Oxford Mathematics Interviews (Undergraduate)
- Making a mathematics personal statement personal
- Tackling the Oxford MAT
- Choosing a college at Oxford (Undergraduate)
- Applying to Oxford Mathematics (Undergraduate)
Tech
- Catan Probability Calculator
- Read text nicely
- Stock Game
- Font sizes from 4px to 99.9px
- Calculator Programming
- Effort vs Quality
- Using Zoom / Google Meet with OBS
Personal
- A collection of music videos that I like
- Running a mathematics society in secondary school
- On Stun-locks
Meta
- Technical aspects of tobylam.xyz
- Audience and Tone of tobylam.xyz
- Inspirations for tobylam.xyz
- Why start a website?
Tools
- Surface plotter that lets you sketch on surfaces
- Complex function plotter
- Compilation of miscellaneous tools
Research
Maths
- A circle and a hyperbola living in one plot
- Taylor series raised to a power
- Alternate notation for topology
- The Gudermannian
- A physical interepertation of trigonometric substitution
- Using matrices to understand polynomials
- Visualising bifurications
- Visualising linear dynamical systems directly
- Visualising invertibility and diagonalisability of matrices
- Partial derivatives of the radius
- Understanding the hyperbolic plane with refraction
- Understanding potential wells
- Understanding Green's theorem
- Another visualization of the second fundamental theorem of calculus
- Calculus of inverse functions: Inverse function theorem and the Legendre transformation (Part I)
- Graph sketching techniques
- Generalising function plots to topological spaces
- Pedagogically weaker notions of continuity
- Constructing homotopies using gravity
- Geometry of curves and projectile motion
- Euclidean algorithm and GL(2, Z)
- Understanding the dual space
- Understanding linear fractional transformations
- Understanding the Jordan Normal Form
- Visualising composition series
- Visualising the group isomorphism theorems
- Three ways of thinking about matrix multiplication
- Levi-Civita Symbol (Part II)
- Structures closed under unions
- Levi-Civita Symbol (Part I)
- Structures closed under intersections
- Extending sequences into smooth functions using trignometric functions
- Interiors, closures and boundaries of topological spaces
- Compilation of miscellaneous ideas
- HKDSE Physics and M2 (Part III)
- HKDSE Physics and M2 (Part II)
- HKDSE Physics and M2 (Part I)
- Euler's formula and compound angle formulae
- Showing preservation of properties under multiplication via difference of squares
- Another example of pointwise but not uniform convergence