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Chancellor Ceti

I'm Chancellor Ceti, reader of much and understand-er of little. STEM interests are physics, math, economics, and Rust programming(🦀🚀). Non-STEM interests are films, literature, music, history, politics (primarily US and Indian), and international relations. My posts here will mostly concern these topics, as well as occasionally griping about how painful life is.

See about page (top menu) for more details on who exactly created this train wreck of a website and specifics of what my interests are.

Recent Posts

2026-1-20 Life Update For January 2026

Some griping about school, summary of what I've been reading recently, update on language learning progress

Tags: personal rambling

2026-1-20 How Park Chan-wook’s 'No Other Choice' Creates a Devastating Picture of Korean Capitalism and Its Brutality

Lengthy, rambling analysis of the film and what it's saying about Korean capitalism, and also why this is the best movie of 2025

Tags: film reviews

2026-1-11 My Thoughts on Melita Maschmann’s 'Account Rendered: A Dossier On My Former Self'

I review the book, talk about some of the most interesting ideas, and discuss its relevance today.

Tags: book reviews

2025-12-08 Interesting Things I Did in the Week of 30 November

Summary of everything I read over the last week: Indian politics and Richard Lloyd Parry's 'In the Time of Madness'

Tags: personal rambling

2025-11-25 An Update on My Life -- Venting, Reading, Films, and Music Dump

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

Tags: personal rambling

2025-10-18 Solving the Coolest Integral Ever – Fourier Series, Gamma Functions, and the Riemann Zeta Function

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

Tags: math

2025-07-20 Solving an Epic Boundary Value Problem from J.D. Jackson’s 'Classical Electrodynamics' – Laplace’s Equation in Polar Coordinates!

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

Tags: math,physics,electrodynamics

2025-07-06 A Review of Rohinton Mistry's novel 'A Fine Balance'

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

Tags: book reviews

2025-06-19 Orson Welles’ Citizen Kane – An Exploration of Media, Power, and the Meaning of Happiness

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

Tags: film reviews

2025-06-14 A Review of Park Chan-wook's film Oldboy

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

Tags: film reviews

2025-04-20 Deriving the Dirac Delta Term in the Dipole Electric Field Formula

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.

Tags: math,physics,electrodynamics

2025-03-11 Improvements on Stirling’s Approximation using Taylor Series Expansions

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.

Tags: math

2022-10-21 Lattice Points Visible from the Origin using Euler Product Formula and Evaluation of Zeta Function

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)

Tags: number theory,math

2022-06-13 Matrix Exponentiation for n'th term of Linear recurrence

Explaining a common method for finding the n'th term of a linear recurrence in logarithmic time using binary exponentiation of matrices.

Tags: algorithm,project euler