User:Arvindn
Bio
I'm Arvind Narayanan, 21, studying comp. sci. in IIT Madras, India. Interests: programming, linux, math, chess, classical Indian music, evolution, anarchism, cryptography. Allergic to milk, dust mites and TV. Vegetarian, Hindu(though mostly atheistic), Tamil.
My homepage
Here's my blog (all my POV stuff goes there :)
Some notes that I've been taking in class. Eventually some of it will go into the 'pedia.
Stuff I've worked on
- How to solve the knight's tour
- Hamiltonian cycle
- Endgame
- Antichess
- Edouard Lucas
- Chess terminology
- Chennai
- Dillo
- Horse paradox
- Window system
- Cryptography/key length
- Minimax algorithm
- Alpha-beta pruning
- Evaluation function
- XBoard
- Block cipher modes of operation
- Ron Rivest, RC5, RC6.
- Stream cipher, Symmetric key algorithm
- Probable prime
- Illegal prime
- Infinitesimal
- Kinetic theory
- Parallel computing
- Error correction
- Hyperbola, Parabola
- Congruent
- Maxwell-Boltzmann distribution
- Indus Valley civilization
- Stellar evolution
- Z-transform
- International Mathematics Olympiad
- Cycloid
- Simulated annealing
- Flag of India
- UUCP
- Black hole, primordial black hole
- Playfair cipher
My Todo list
- AI
- Carnatic Music
- Biographies(chessplayers, mathematicians)
- Tamil literature
- Stellar evolution
- Hydrostatic equilibrium
- Hawking radiation
- Table of integrals
- Blindfold chess
- Simultaneous chess