Student at the University of Alberta
I am delighted to welcome you to my website, where a static instance of myself resides night and day.
This instance will take you through my various projects, experiences, and works, all of which are either visible on this website, or are otherwise linked.
Above all, I hope you find something that gives you joy.
- AA
I am a student at the University of Alberta, pursuing a BSc Honors degree in Applied Mathematics, with a minor in Computing Science.
Is there any knowledge in the world which is so certain that no reasonable man could doubt it?
Of all the things one learns in education, two strike me as most important: Just how little we know, and how much effort it took to get us here.
Even that which we do know of our real world is at constant risk of being rendered inaccurate, and it is always possible that we will have to go back to square one.
This is, it seems, the one thing we do know for certain.
In certain areas, the quest for knowledge seems to be a Sisyphean one, in that, to quote Albert Camus,
"The struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a man's heart."[2]
In other words, though there may not be a guarantee that a given piece of knowledge is true, its discovery makes it rewarding.
Through this portfolio, I invite you to take a peek into how I have started my journey.
[1] Russell, Bertrand. “Appearance and Reality.” The Problems of Philosophy, Prometheus Books, 1988, p. 7.
[2] Camus, Albert. The Myth of Sisyphus, translated by Justin O'Brien, Penguin Classics, 2000, p. 89.