Chancellor Ceti

I'm Chancellor Ceti, reader of much and understand-er of little. Amateur mathematician, physicist, and Rust programmer( 🦀🚀).

I'm best at math and physics, but I dabble in all sorts of things so expect to be surprised.

Venting about college applications, talking about films, music, books, and poetry

Presenting the solution to my new favorite integral! Many cool tricks used, many special functions make an appearance, very elegant problem.

What the title says -- lots of differential equation magic, some trickery with complex variables, a cool-looking solution

Reviewing the novel 'A Fine Balance', one of my all-time favorites

Reviewing Citizen Kane, one of the classics of American cinema that is as powerful and relevant today as it was in 1941

Reviewing Oldboy, a horrifying, brilliantly-executed South Korean action thriller

I show how to derive the Dirac delta term in the formula for the electric field caused by a dipole. We use some cool tricks with spherical harmonics to derive the result in a fun way.

I show how to get improvements on Stirling approximation to any desired degree of accuracy using two Taylor series expansions and a handful of other nice tricks.

Solving a number theory problem about lattice points visible from the origin using an ingenious application of the Euler Product Formula and an integral derivation of the value of Zeta(2)

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