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Demetri Spanos, Ph. D.
Independent Computational Mathematics Research
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You can reach me by email for business discussions, on Twitter/X for Math/AI commentary, and SubStack for project updates.
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Client Research and Development Projects
I have designed and built custom AI/ML and mathematical computing applications for over twenty five years, in over one hundred client engagements. These have ranged from garage startups, to scientific research labs, to many of the Fortune 100, as well as US State Government agencies.
Projects typically ship within three months, and have spanned LLMs, Vision, Radar, Drones, Mining, Energy, Radiology, Pharmaceuticals, Logistics, 3D Visualization, Numerical Computing, Quantitative Finance, Marketing/Election Campaigns, and many other applications.
If you would like to discuss a project, please contact me using one of the methods above.
Mathematics Course and “Book”
Math for the Working Programmer (MFTWP)
This project-based course constructs mathematics concepts as programs, while building useful software applications along the way, all derived from twenty-five years of applied mathematical computing work. It treats programming literacy as a first-class mode of thinking, and teaches through programming constructs as much as possible. It starts from early pre-calculus foundations, and reaches all the advanced mathematics a student would need to read, understand, implement, and improve contemporary research papers in computing, AI, graphics, simulation, and related fields (roughly first-year graduate level applied mathematics).
The curriculum is complete and I am now producing the lectures and course materials. The first project is scheduled to be ready Q1/26, and will continue with weekly content until the curriculum is complete (I estimate about 18 months).
No Royal Road (NRR)
Mathematics textbooks have held their current form for over two thousand years, going back to Euclid. I am trying to find what comes next, starting with the foundations of modern touch devices, enormous interactive computing power, search, AI, non-linear traversal (think wikis), progressive refinement, and many other things we have learned in the last thirty years of computing, networks, visualization, games, and simulation technology. It will manifest as a desktop and tablet application, and is what I hope my children will use to learn the family business.
This is a much more unpredictable project than MFTWP, but I hope to have something in early access for Q3/26 (famous last words).