Thomas Galindo

My adoration of mathematics has been always been a driving force; even to this day where I am currently writing a paper using mathematics to analyze the human experience, entitled "Humanics". At the moment only a few pages/proofs in, but I presume it to ultimately be my thesis for a Ph.D.. As I continue my journey within my studies, I always find myself in awe of the complex yet intuitive nature of the subject and I've always enjoyed passing on this love to those who have yet to find that appreciation or even been turned away from the subject by past experiences, hence why I am looking towards the mathematics education field as a career.

Aside from my academic and career life, I am an athlete very familiar with team structures and management. I played soccer and baseball for about 12 years, then switched to football in high school, and most recently played rugby at a collegiate level at UCR where I became one of the captains my final season in the Spring of '23. Because of my athletic career, it has become almost second nature not only to be easily taught and learn from others, but as well as know how and when to be a leader. I credit my leaderships skills that I apply in my work environments to my decades of being apart of a team structure.

A research paper using mathematical structures to analyze the human experience. At the moment mainly dealing with set theory but I foresee the paper moving more towards the general abstract algebra field.

It seems rather meaningless and obvious at first glance to say that one's reality is defined by how and what they perceive; however, in the same way 1+1=2 is not as straightforward as most people think, it takes more than just what one assumes to be an obvious to prove such statement is true. If we view every aspect of our existence, being our thoughts, actions, even objects or entities as elements in sets, we can critically analyze the human experience using mathematical structures to concretely define aspects of the human experience. In order to critically analyze something as complex as our own realities and perceptions, we must start at the very basic idea of, for lack of more direct wording, things existing and stuff happening; however, even before that we must define what it means for something to exist and what it means for something to happen. It is quite clear now that a seemingly clear and straight forward statement in which makes "obvious" sense can get very complex when we attempt to analyze it. As of now, the paper revolves around defining a concrete basis of what a "perception" is, what an "incident" is, what it means "to occur" as well as a proof under these definitions for "an incident can occur if and only if something exists". Ultimately the goal of the paper is to see how deeply can I analyze the human experience using mathematical concepts and potentially use this idea for a dissertation.

Rugby Club at UCR: 2019-2023

>Vice President and treasurer 2021-2023

>Captain 2023