About Me

I'm Finlay Whitton and a PhD student in Maths at Heriot-Watt University under the supervision of Prof. Lyonell Boulton and Prof. Beatrice Pelloni. I mainly work in Spectral Geometry but I'm interested more broadly in Analysis and PDEs. Feel free to email me.

Reading recommendations

Please enjoy this list of articles I've enjoyed reading:

• e: The Master of All
• You Can't Hear the Shape of a Drum
• A Mathematician's Lament
• On Proof and Progress in Mathematics
• A Balanced, Nuanced, and Comprehensive Review of Scientific English and its Relevance to Modern Scholarship
• Seven Deadly Sins of Numerical Computation

And here are some blog posts that have made me think a lot

• On Systems: Living a Life of Zero Willpower - Neel Nanda
• Half-assing it with everything you've got - Nate Soares
• Write a rapid prototype first - Terence Tao