Blog of curiosities by Atiyab Zafar

Our minds are finite, and yet even in those circumstances of finitude, we are surrounded by possibilities that are infinite, and the purpose of human life is to grasp as much as we can out of that infinitude. (Alfred North Whitehead)

My Blog

Here is my Personal Blog that I will update with things I learn as I go through my PhD and with my thoughts occasionally.

Wrap up and analysis of my reading in 2024 5 March, 2025

Books read in first 4 months of 2025 and update to the books read at the end of 2024 3 March, 2025

Book Review: Ballad of Songbirds by Suzanne Collins 9 September, 2024

Book Review: Kindred by Octavia Butler 27 August, 2024

Thoughts on books read from April to July 2024 (Pride and Prejudice, Brazen, White Nights, ...) August, 2024

Book Reviews for March, 24 (The Forever War, The Seven Dials Mystery and Before the Coffee Gets Cold) August, 2024

Book Reviews for February, 24 (The Secret Adversary, Midnight Library and The Big Four) April 4, 2024

Book Review (Sleeping Murder by Agatha Christie) December 24, 2023

Book Review (Endless Night by Agatha Christie) December 4, 2023

Book Review (A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini) November 13, 2023

Book Review (Appointment With Death by Agatha Christie) October 1, 2023

Ecological Interactions, Basic Lotka Volterra September 10, 2023

Playground with digit sum September 5, 2023

Making Peace with Uncertainty (Ian Malcolm, Jurassic Park, Uncertainty and Science) August 28, 2023

Latexpy: script to generate multiple pdf with different variable values September 2, 2022

Network Science 101 July 24, 2022

Love Letters to Pi(III): Normality, Do you exist in Pi? (My Personal Favourite Post) March 14, 2021

Understanding Population Dynamics March 15, 2020

Love Letters to pi (II) Surprising places Where pi pops up March 14, 2020

Calculating Pi Recursively- Love Letters to Pi (I) July 03, 2019

The Eightfold Way Rememerbing Gell-Man and his innovative ways May 25, 2019

Understanding Entropy March 28, 2019

Books

Reading has always been a very important part of my life. I read while travelling, in my idle time, in between long simulations, when I need a break from research. I think I would not be able to survive my PhD without books. So this section is dedicated to my enjoyment of reading. As you can see the blog shows many posts about book reviews. A collection of few books I have read and enjoyed can be found using the following link: Books

Simulations

I love performing simulations!

  • Agent Based Modelling for Covid 19 : An agtent based model studying Disease Prevention Measures within Heterogeneous Communities and Studying Effect of Migration and lockdowns.

  • Most of my simulations are on github in private repositories. Need to work on publicly making them available. They will be slowly moved and posted here. Patience is appreciated.

Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas. (Albert Einstein)