About Me

About me

~Here's to Truth and here’s to Beauty~

Hello, my name is Reza. I’m in my early twenties, 21 to be specific. I grew up in a diaspora Iranian household, but I was born in in Singapore. Currently, I’ve moved abroad to Europe (to escape military conscription), and because I studied in two different countries in continental Europe for my bachelors and masters, I learnt a few languages here. Aside from doing my masters degrees (two at the same time: mathematics and theoretical physics), I don’t have a formal occupation, but I have in the past made digital formalizations of mathematical proofs in proof libraries, and aside from that, published a handful of original research in mathematical journals. I’d call myself a mathematician, but I don’t think it’s a label for a formal occupation nor an educational status; anyone who produces output in terms of research is a friend of mathematics. And I have a range of other hobbies and personal passion projects: I make a lot of simulations in the field of theoretical physics, and enjoy reading (and collecting) monographs from adjacent fields to my interests (I owned, at some point, an original edition of Fourier's Théorie Analytique de la Chaleur). I play and write orchestral and piano compositions (often inspired by Webern and Xenakis), I’ve studied music theory in depth; I experiment with electronics and observational astronomy, and so on. My best memory during the past 3 years was probably seeing and photographing the Perseid Meteor Shower on 13th of August 2026, high up in the Italian Alps in Valle d’Aosta, somewhat close to the observatory there — really, give it a try!

I was lucky to grow up in an environment that nurtured a lot of my passions, coming from an upbringing among academics. For example, I grew up with a full-fledged lab in my home and learned to use oscilloscopes as a child, I was in the Math Olympiads, and although I grew up in solitude I had a nice mentor who shared my combinatorics fixation, and I used to skip school and remember fondly the hidden second hand bookstore that educated me. Indeed I wouldn’t have lived another life if I had the chance — although all the world never gave me the things I was looking for. There a sense that the curiosities of my small life has always chased something enigmatic and far away, if only that something can click and make everything in the world fall into place. A form of Satisfaction, perhaps? That sense appears in my lived experience and when I sleepwalk at night (I'm a parasomniac). The sense of things falling into place and cogs aligning is why I've chased the Eureka of mathematics since my earliest days, the language of harmony — and in Grothendieck’s words, of innocence.

Indeed, I think all of our quests are animated by the harmony of mathematics — and as an extension of appreciating harmony in equations and universals, we appreciate the harmony between all creation. It is a creative force, one that speaks the language of the Gods and generates something from nothing. A capacity to lose myself while manifesting something in embryonic development, a channel for the flow of inspiration. If I can, I also hope my research can inspire those with the spirit to take it in, to raise the world to the harmony I see in what I do — and this mission is part of why I've been telling myself not to just run off to a retreat in the Swiss Alps forever. So here’s to Truth and here’s to Beauty!