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complex sums and symmetries, Pi Day 2026"><span class=bloglist-title >Fun with Pi, complex sums and symmetries, Pi Day 2026</span></a><span class=post-date >14 March, 2026</span></p> <p><a href="/Blog/2026/juliatutorial/"><img src="/Blog/2026/images/lorenzchaos.png" class=bloglist-img  alt="Differential.jl: A tutorial with Lorenz system and Generalised Lotka Volterra"><span class=bloglist-title >Differential.jl: A tutorial with Lorenz system and Generalised Lotka Volterra</span></a><span class=post-date >3 March, 2026</span></p> <p><a href="/projects/NetLogoEconomic/"><img src="/assets/images/NetLogoScreenShot.png" class=bloglist-img  alt="An agent based model for a catalysed economy"><span class=bloglist-title >An agent based model for a catalysed economy</span></a><span class=post-date >26 February, 2026</span></p> <p><a href="/Blog/bookreviews/2025WrapUp/"><img src="/Blog/bookreviews/images/storygraph-wrap-up-2025.png" class=bloglist-img  alt="Wrap up and analysis of my reading in 2025"><span class=bloglist-title >Wrap up and analysis of my reading in 2025</span></a><span class=post-date >23 February, 2026</span></p> <p><a href="/Blog/2025/google/"><img src="/Blog/2025/images/Centrality.svg" class=bloglist-img  alt="Interesting Finds: Google"><span class=bloglist-title >Interesting Finds: Google</span></a><span class=post-date >3 September, 2025</span></p> <p><a href="/Blog/bookreviews/2024WrapUp/"><img src="/Blog/bookreviews/images/Wrap.png" class=bloglist-img  alt="Wrap up and analysis of my reading in 2024"><span class=bloglist-title >Wrap up and analysis of my reading in 2024</span></a><span class=post-date >5 March, 2025</span></p> <p><a href="/Blog/bookreviews/books/"><span class=bloglist-title >Books read in first 4 months of 2025</span></a><span class=post-date >3 March, 2025</span></p> <p><a href="/Blog/bookreviews/BalladOfSongbirds/"><span class=bloglist-title >Book Review: Ballad of Songbirds by Suzanne Collins</span></a><span class=post-date >9 September, 2024</span></p> <p><a href="/Blog/bookreviews/Kindred/"><img src="/Blog/bookreviews/images/Kindred.jpg" class=bloglist-img  alt="Book Review: Kindred by Octavia Butler"><span class=bloglist-title >Book Review: Kindred by Octavia Butler</span></a><span class=post-date >27 August, 2024</span></p> <p><a href="/Blog/bookreviews/April_July24Books/"><span class=bloglist-title >Thoughts on books read from April to July 2024</span></a><span class=post-date >1 August, 2024</span></p> <p><a href="/Blog/bookreviews/March24Books/"><span class=bloglist-title >Book Reviews for March 2024</span></a><span class=post-date >1 August, 2024</span></p> <p><a href="/Blog/bookreviews/February24Books/"><img src="/Blog/bookreviews/images/SecretAdversary.jpg" class=bloglist-img  alt="Book Reviews for February 2024"><span class=bloglist-title >Book Reviews for February 2024</span></a><span class=post-date >4 April, 2024</span></p> <p><a href="/Blog/bookreviews/SleepingMurder/"><img src="/Blog/bookreviews/images/SleepingMurder1.jpeg" class=bloglist-img  alt="Book Review: Sleeping Murder by Agatha Christie"><span class=bloglist-title >Book Review: Sleeping Murder by Agatha Christie</span></a><span class=post-date >24 December, 2023</span></p> <p><a href="/Blog/bookreviews/EndlessNight/"><img src="/Blog/bookreviews/images/EndlessNight.jpeg" class=bloglist-img  alt="Book Review: Endless Night by Agatha Christie"><span class=bloglist-title >Book Review: Endless Night by Agatha Christie</span></a><span class=post-date >4 December, 2023</span></p> <p><a href="/Blog/bookreviews/AThousandSplendidSuns/"><img src="/Blog/bookreviews/images/AThousandSplendidSuns.jpg" class=bloglist-img  alt="Book Review: A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini"><span class=bloglist-title >Book Review: A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini</span></a><span class=post-date >13 November, 2023</span></p> <p><a href="/Blog/bookreviews/ChristieAppointmentWithDeath/"><img src="/Blog/bookreviews/images/AppointmentWithDeath.jpeg" class=bloglist-img  alt="Book Review: Appointment With Death by Agatha Christie"><span class=bloglist-title >Book Review: Appointment With Death by Agatha Christie</span></a><span class=post-date >1 October, 2023</span></p> <p><a href="/Blog/ecology_relationships/ecology_relationship/"><span class=bloglist-title >Ecological Interactions, Basic Lotka Volterra</span></a><span class=post-date >10 September, 2023</span></p> <p><a href="/Blog/digitsum/sum_digits/"><img src="/Blog/digitsum/UlamSpiral10e5.png" class=bloglist-img  alt="Playground with digit sum"><span class=bloglist-title >Playground with digit sum</span></a><span class=post-date >5 September, 2023</span></p> <p><a href="/Blog/uncertainty/uncertainty/"><img src="/assets/images/JurassicPark.gif" class=bloglist-img  alt="Making Peace with Uncertainty"><span class=bloglist-title >Making Peace with Uncertainty</span></a><span class=post-date >28 August, 2023</span></p> <p><a href="/Blog/latexpy/"><span class=bloglist-title >Latexpy: script to generate multiple PDFs with different values</span></a><span class=post-date >2 September, 2022</span></p> <p><a href="/Blog/network/NetworkScience101/"><span class=bloglist-title >Network Science 101</span></a><span class=post-date >24 July, 2022</span></p> <p><a href="/Old_blog/2021-03-14-pi/pi3/"><img src="/Old_blog/2021-03-14-pi/images/PiNeverEnds2-1-1024x764.png" class=bloglist-img  alt="Love Letters to Pi (III): Normality"><span class=bloglist-title >Love Letters to Pi (III): Normality</span></a><span class=post-date >14 March, 2021</span></p> <p><a href="/Old_blog/2020-03-15-understanding-the-dynamics-of-disease-spreading-part-1-basic-population-dynamics/disease/"><img src="/Old_blog/2020-03-15-understanding-the-dynamics-of-disease-spreading-part-1-basic-population-dynamics/images/population-dynamics-introduction-7-638-1.jpg" class=bloglist-img  alt="Understanding Population Dynamics"><span class=bloglist-title >Understanding Population Dynamics</span></a><span class=post-date >15 March, 2020</span></p> <p><a href="/Old_blog/2020-03-14-love-letters-to-pi-surprising-places-where-pi-pops-up-celebrating-pi-day/pi2/"><img src="/Old_blog/2020-03-14-love-letters-to-pi-surprising-places-where-pi-pops-up-celebrating-pi-day/images/PiNeverEnds2-1-1024x764.png" class=bloglist-img  alt="Love Letters to Pi (II): Surprising places where Pi pops up"><span class=bloglist-title >Love Letters to Pi (II): Surprising places where Pi pops up</span></a><span class=post-date >14 March, 2020</span></p> <p><a href="/Old_blog/2019-07-03-calculating-pi-recursively-love-letters-to-pi/2019-07-03-calculating-pi-recursively-love-letters-to-pi/"><img src="/Old_Blog/2019-07-03-calculating-pi-recursively-love-letters-to-pi/images/04-Fascinating-Facts-Behind-the-Mystery-of-Pi-760x506-1.jpg" class=bloglist-img  alt="Calculating Pi Recursively — Love Letters to Pi (I)"><span class=bloglist-title >Calculating Pi Recursively — Love Letters to Pi (I)</span></a><span class=post-date >3 July, 2019</span></p> <p><a href="/Old_blog/Gell-Man/"><span class=bloglist-title >Gell-Mann’s innovative thinking| The Eight Fold Way</span></a><span class=post-date >25 May, 2019</span></p> <p><a href="/Old_blog/2019-03-28-understanding-entropy/2019-03-28-understanding-entropy/"><img src="/Old_blog/2019-03-28-understanding-entropy/images/entropy-4-1024x683.jpg" class=bloglist-img  alt="Understanding Entropy"><span class=bloglist-title >Understanding Entropy</span></a><span class=post-date >28 March, 2019</span></p> </div> <div class=page-foot > <div class=copyright > &copy; Atiyab Zafar. 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