TEACHING & MENTORING
Teaching Experience
Teaching mathematics through problem solving, intuition, and clear mathematical reasoning. My experience includes undergraduate teaching assistance, academic tutoring, mentoring, and supporting students across mathematics, probability, statistics, and mathematical finance.
“A teacher is never a giver of truth — he is a guide, a pointer to the truth that each student must find for himself.” — Bruce Lee
EXPERIENCE
Teaching Portfolio
Selected teaching, tutoring, and mentoring roles.
Math 3338 · Probability
University of Houston
Instructor: Dr. Wenjiang Fu
Math 2413 · Calculus I
University of Houston
Instructor: Dr. Moses Sosa
MA5950 · Mathematical Finance
Indian Institute of Technology Madras
Instructor: Dr. Barun Sarkar
Mathematics & Statistics Tutoring
University of Houston
Center for Academic Support and Assessment (CASA)
Math Advancement Class on Sundays (MAC-S)
Indian Institute of Technology Madras
Mentored students in advanced undergraduate mathematics.
My Teaching Approach
I try to help students understand why a mathematical idea works before focusing only on formulas or procedures.
My goal is to make difficult concepts approachable by connecting formal mathematics with intuition, examples, visualization, and structured problem solving.
Math Materials
Linear Algebra
Grad / Undergrad Math Books
Analysis
- Real Analysis – S. Kumaresan
- Topology of Metric Spaces – S. Kumaresan
- Metric Spaces – P. K. Jain, Khalil Ahmad
- Real Analysis, Carothers –link
Against the common notion, "Rudin, Bartle-Shebert, Apostol" aren't of much use. Working with them is like admiring a masterpiece from a distance. To get closer and make your hands dirty, go out with books of average and amazing problems.
One would refer to the expository articles of Dr. S. Kumaresan:
Algebra
- Contemporary Abstract Algebra – J.A Gallian
- Abstract Algebra – Frank Ayres link
- Abstract Algebra – Gregory T Lee link
- Abstract Algebra – Khanna & Bhambri link
Same here — "Herstein, Dummit-Foote" are masterpieces for Modern Algebra, but make your hands dirty with Frank Ayres. Alongside, one can make use of video lectures like Benedict Gross (YouTube).
Linear Algebra
- Linear Algebra Done Right – Sheldon Axler link
- Linear Algebra – Lipson & Lipschutz – Schaum Problem Outlines
- Linear Algebra, A Geometric Approach – S. Kumaresan link
Complex Analysis
- Complex Variables Demystified – McMahon link
- Visual Complex Analysis – Needham (link)
- Complex Variables – HS Khasana link
- Complex Variables – Spiegel & Lipschutz – Schaum Outlines
- Intro to Complex Analysis – P. Duraipandian
Topology
- Topology Without Tears – SA Morris link
- Topology – J.R. Munkres
- Full Notes on Topology – link
- Notes on Topology: Prof. Veeramani (NPTEL) – link
ODE & PDE
- Differential Equations – Bronson – Schaum Outlines link
- Differential Equations – M.D. Raisinghania
- An Elementary Course on PDE – Amarnath (PDF)
To be honest, haven’t referred too many books for differential equations — hope this section gets updated in the future.
Functional Analysis
- Intro to Functional Analysis and Applications – Kriezig link
- Functional Analysis – B.V. Limaye
These two are the most common books in Functional — good ones but too long. After reading Functional, one could go through this article and book by Prof. S. Kumaresan. link
Highly suggested to refer to the articles and books of Dr. Kesavan, IMSc on applying Functional Analysis to Sobolev Space (PDE) — link
Measure Theory
- Measure and Integration – Inder K. Rana | Math4All Notes1 / Notes2
P.S: I highly appreciate this channel because of the work done for math aspirants: pkalika.in | Resource File
Data Science , AI & ML
Platforms to be familiar with
Github | Kaggle Notebooks | Geeks for Geeks | KDNuggets Blog | GateOverflow
Articles and Newsletters from kdnuggets.com are great resources to stay updated in Data Science and AI.
- Cheat Sheet for Complete Data Science (including Statistics & Math) — PDF (Link)
- Complete Cheat Sheet for ML — PDF (Link2) (great!)
- Excellent Materials for GATE DA — link
- Machine Learning for Beginners: An excellent resource that breaks down machine learning concepts clearly.
- Supervised vs. Unsupervised Learning: Key Differences explained with visuals.
- 7 Machine Learning Algorithms Every Data Scientist Should Know
Course: Intro to Machine Learning / Data Science Materials
- Python Intro — Workshop using Google Colab
- Visualize Neural Networks using TensorFlow Playground
Quantitative Finance
📚 Books for References
- Stochastic Calculus for Finance - Syllabus
- Stochastic calculus for finance (two volumes), Steven Shreve, C Mellon — PDF
- Monte Carlo Methods in Engineering, Glasserman, Columbia Business School — PDF
- Options, Futures and other derivatives by John Hull — link
- Stochastic Differential Equations by Øksendal (not for beginners) — link
📰 Articles
- Kaggle Notebook: Stochastic Process
- Stamatics IITK — Finance and Stochastic Process Project
- Financial Models / Gitcode
- Quant Finance Cheat Sheet (PDF)
- Math Finance Cheat Sheet (PDF)
- Quant Finance Overview (must look)
💻 Softwares and Websites
- TradingView, GoChart, Investopedia Simulator
- Bonds: Fixed Income by Tipson
- Futures and Options (FNO) — Grow, Zerodha (India)
📘 Beginners to Read
- What is Financial Mathematics? Courses, Books, and History
- Suggested Readings by Prof. A. Goswami (IISER Pune)
- First Step to Math Finance (Read This)
- Career Guide: Certificate of Quantitative Finance (CQF)
🏛️ Finance Courses and Universities
📂 My Projects and Git Resources
Probability / Statistics / Stochastic Processes
- Mathematical blog: almostsuremath.com by George Lowther
- Complete Probability course (link) by Hossein Pishro-Nik
- Elementary books
- Probability and Stat for engineers, Walpole.Myers.
- Basic Stochastic Processes: A Course Through Exercises, Springer
- Introduction to Probability by Bertsekas & Tsitsiklis
- Stochastic Calculus Teach materials
- Notes for Reference
- Probability and Statistics - Cheat Sheet
- Statistics - Cheat Sheet
- Excellent Lecture Notes: Note 1 | Note 2
Tools and Softwares
- Research tools Litmaps or Research Rabbit (Journal Seeker) ,Overleaf (LaTeX editor), LyX (Word editor), Chatpdf or Pdfdrive , Paperpal(paid) , Hypernotes or Notion , Enago plagiriazer , Mendeley & Mendeley Data.
- Numerical & Scientific Computing, MaTLAB online is the best.
- Probability & Statistics, R - Posit Cloud is much better than others .
- Python + VS Code + GitHub Google Colab ( jupyter notebooks), VS Code online , Codespaces in Git.
High School
- Set theory
- Sequence & Series
- Binomial theorem
- Permutation & Combination
- Matrices & Determinant
- Complex Numbers
- Quadratic Equations
- Trigonometry
- Coordinate Geometry
- Vector Algebra
- 3D Geometry
- Continuity & Derivatives
- Differential Calculus
- Integral Calculus
- Statistics & Probability
- Mathematical Reasoning & Logic
Undergraduate
Stage 1:
- Single Variable Calculus
- Classical Algebra
- Analytical Geometry
- Vector & Integral Calculus
- Number Theory
- Intro to ODE & PDE
Stage 2:
- Multivariate Calculus
- Fourier Series & Laplace Transform
- Probability and Statistics
- Mathematics for Physics
- Mathematics for Computer Science
- Operation Research
- Numerical Analysis
Stage 3:
- Real Analysis
- Complex Variables
- Linear Algebra & Applications
- Abstract Algebraic Structures
- Advanced Fourier & Laplace Transform
Graduate
Level 1:
- Real Analysis
- Advanced Linear Algebra
- Algebraic Structures
- Ordinary Differential Equations
- Discrete Mathematics
- Numerical Analysis & Computing
Level 2:
- Partial Differential Equations
- Complex Analysis
- Measure Theory
- Topology
- Probability theory
- Functional Analysis
Complete Syllabus link
These areas open up research interests in major fields: