I am in the senior year of my high-school education in India and I will graduate in 2026. Since June 2021, I am a protege of Yaashaa Golovanov at his premier program, AMMOC - an international math circle that has students drawn from over fifteen countries spread across six continents.
In retrospect, my journey into study of mathematics did not start as an aspiration, rather as a pathway to divert myself from excessive investment of time in playing computer games. Seeing my addiction to these games, my parents consulted Sarthak Dattatray Dhobale, whose father was friend of my parents since 2007. Sarthak Dhobale received [a full ride as a non-us international citizen] from the Princeton for major in Mathematics, class of 2029.
Nevertheless, Sarthak informed my parents that he was part of AMMOC, the newly founded USSR style virtual math circle, now one of the rarest program of its kind. In the first week of June, 2020, I and my parents did listen to Sarthak narrating his mathematical journey at AMMOC and were, thus, convinced to join this program. Despite having very difficult phase in the first two years and half, I stayed at AMMOC. I am very happy to share that today, when I am at the verge of completing four years at AMMOC, I have consolidated understanding of the core syllabus of the math competitions at the level of AIME and beyond. Under the tutelage, mentorship, and teaching of my mentor Yaashaa Golovanov, director-AMMOC, I have won over 40 international contests including AMC, AIME, CMM (Caltech), PUMAC (Princeton), SMT (Stanford), and BMT (Berkeley), AMC of Australian Math Trust, COMC of the Canadian Mathematical Society and over half a dozen international contests of the CEMC [University of Waterloo].
In addition to this, I have also undergone a apprenticeship in Abstract Algebra covering theoretical material [including solution to many exercises] from
Dummit & Foote for the Group Theory
Anthony W. Kanpp (Stonybrook) for Rings and Modules, and
Richard Elman (UCLA), Fields and Galois Theory, and
I am reviewing these materials in languages of category theory through additional accalerated seminars by my mentor, Yaashaa Golovanov.