Shihan Kanungo
Hello there! I’m Shihan—thanks for stopping by. I live in Palo Alto, CA. I am deeply fascinated by mathematics, physics, language, and music. I play the violin, compose with my MPK Mini Plus, and have a music taste that defies genre (and occasionally logic). When I’m not actively immersed in one of these pursuits, there’s a good chance I’m sitting very still, appearing contemplative—while secretly daydreaming about my next snack. I aspire to nurture my passions and use them to make meaningful contributions to the world ... ideally with a bit of joy, curiosity, and the occasional pastry along the way.
Recent news: The Fields Medal 2026. The 2026 Fields Medals have been awarded to Yu Deng, Hong Wang, John Pardon, and Jacob Tsimerman, recognizing four remarkable advances spanning analysis, geometry, topology, and number theory. Deng resolved long-standing questions in kinetic theory and Hilbert's Sixth Problem; Wang made groundbreaking contributions to harmonic analysis, including the Kakeya conjecture in three dimensions; Pardon transformed geometric topology through his work on minimal surfaces, Floer theory, and knot theory; and Tsimerman reshaped modern arithmetic geometry with his proof of the André–Oort conjecture and fundamental advances in Shimura varieties.
Currently reading: Bring Up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel, and The Early History of Rome by Titus Livy.
Recent Movies: The Fabelmans (d. Steven Spielberg), and The Odyssey (d. Christopher Nolan)
Current Music Recs: We Stay Ugly 'Til The Pretty Decays by Mara Calder (Spotify), and Remain In Light by Angelique Kidjo. Also, these playlists, with one song each from my favorite albums from 2025: pop and jazz.
Song of the day (Thu Jul 23)
