I missed my chance to be a math major some 20 years ago, scared away by the rigid formalisms I saw looming ahead of me in Real Analysis. During those 20 years, I have still loved math, though, slowly teaching myself the rest of an undergraduate degree, but skirting the proofier subjects and treatments, preferring instead to explore.

Having just started to interact with math.stackexchange, I (yet again) revisited my aversion to formalisms. I have begun to wonder if the math I have loved to this point is akin to being a power user -- loving a new piece of machinery, what it can do for me, and what I can do with it. But building that machinery? That takes logic and proof. Mathematicians are more tool makers than tool users. With that shift in understanding, I may finally be able to follow my desire into deeper math.

Research interests include the Euler-Mascheroni constant and its representation in Laplace space, the Riemann zeta function, the polygamma function, and the trigonometry of infinite series treated as vectors.