George FaneApr 4, 20206 min readPolynomial IntegratorMaybe a week or two ago, I was wondering how to make a program that would output eigenvalues for an inputted matrix. To do that, I would...
George FaneMar 15, 20205 min readRevisiting Black-ScholesAt the end of February, I started going on the Corporate Finance Institute website again. It offered new certifications with new video...
George FaneFeb 27, 20203 min readZeta Function ApproximationsThe Riemann zeta function has many applications, but I wanted to focus on approximating its outputs. I had read a quite neat proof that...
George FaneFeb 18, 20204 min readSolving and Inverting MatricesIntroduction My summer internship was coming to an end; in its last week, I knew I would miss the other interns, my supervisors, and the...
George FaneFeb 3, 20203 min readPrime FrequencyWhile creating my fourth version of a Prime Number Finder, I didn't start by using massive numbers under which to find primes. I started...
George FaneNov 28, 20194 min readBetter Prime Finding MethodsProgramming prime-finders is fun for me because it is a constant test to improve. First I divided a potential prime by all of its factors...
George FaneNov 8, 20193 min read"Reverse Goldbach" and Highly Summable NumbersOnce I created a Goldbach Conjecture program to find even numbers as sums of primes, I wanted to go the other way around: find sums of...
George FaneNov 7, 20195 min readUBI and Income DistributionJust between the end of my sister's sophomore year in college and the beginning of her summer research program, our whole family went out...
George FaneSep 23, 20194 min readUlam SpiralAccording to the story, Stanislaw Ulam was bored during a lecture, sometime after his work on the Manhattan Project. He began doodling: a...
George FaneSep 14, 20194 min readTwin Prime ConjectureIt has been posited that there are an infinite number of primes that come 2 after some other prime. This pair of (n-1, n+1), where both...
George FaneSep 11, 20193 min readPrime Number Finder v2 and Goldbach ConjectureThese programs mark the deeper dive into Number Theory that I mentioned in my Factors and Prime Numbers article. Prime Number Finder v2...
George FaneSep 9, 20194 min readBase ConverterUnusually, I cannot remember why I wanted to create a Base Converter. With all my other programs, I can easily identify its intrigue:...
George FaneSep 8, 20192 min readFactors and Prime NumbersI watched a Numberphile video (goodness, I love that channel now) about encryption. Dr. James Grime began by reading an incredibly long...
George FaneAug 28, 20193 min readBlack-Scholes Option Valuation and Implied VolatilityI probably first saw the Black-Scholes Formula for option valuation a few weeks ago. I had just finished up the CFI's video series on...
George FaneAug 28, 20196 min readNet Present Value and Internal Rate of ReturnIn addition to watching a video series on fixed-income securities and writing programs that perform bond valuations, I also watched a...
George FaneAug 25, 20192 min readCumulative Distribution FunctionI saw the Black-Scholes formula for option valuation and wanted to develop a program to calculate it, but first I must learn to code a...
George FaneAug 19, 20194 min readBond ValuationLast Wednesday at my GTB internship, I met with an employee in the Finance Department. She told me about the Corporate Finance Institute,...
George FaneAug 12, 20193 min readRelearning C++Every program tells a story. Euler's Number/Compound Interest https://onlinegdb.com/HkdassKXH Note: this is a newer version that allows...