Satvik Saha

I’m a PhD student in the Department of Statistics at Columbia University.

Here you’ll find some mathematical notes, programming projects, and other experiments I’ve enjoyed working on.

Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Writing

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On k-bonacci numbers

A natural generalization of the Fibonacci sequence, and an elegant Binet-like formula for its terms.

27 July 2020 Mathematics Exploration

Projects & Experiments

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CSokoban

Building on the work done in CSnake, I wrote an implementation of the classic game sokoban for the terminal, written in C.

Sokoban running in a terminal.

Command-Line Game C

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Conway’s Game of Life

I wrote an implementation of Conway's Game of Life for the terminal in python. This was my first time using the curses library.

The animated cellular pattern in the Game of Life.

Command-Line Simulation Python

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My Bookshelf

  • The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
  • The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
  • The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
  • His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman
  • Reaper Man by Terry Pratchett
  • The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne
  • A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
  • Gödel, Escher, Bach by Douglas Hofstadter