I'm a mathematician who likes to travel. I try not to take myself too seriously.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

Just here to meet people when traveling/working abroad.

Interests

• cooking
• meditation
• history
• mathematics
• linguistics
• buddhism
• taoism
• murakami

Music, Movies, and Books

Some books I've enjoyed recently:

1. The Tao Te Ching and the Zhuangzi (Laozi, Zhuang Zhou).
2. Every book by Haruki Murakami (Murakami).
3. One Hundred Years of Solitude (Marquez).
4. Generation P (Pelevin).
5. Portnoy's Complaint (Roth).
6. My Promised Land (Shavit).
7. Every book by Bill Bryson (Bryson).
8. The Caliph's House + In Arabian Nights (Shah).
9. A History of the World in 6 Glasses (Standage).
10. Hokkaido Highway Blues (Ferguson)
11. What the Buddha Taught (Rahula)
12. Differential Topology (Guillemin and Pollack)

Music: I like a lot of Post-Rock (e.g. Mogwai, TWDY,etc.), Indian classical music, Israeli Hip-Hop, Classical Music (esp. Chopin), and those awful 'chill beats to study/relax to' YouTube videos.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Nothing I'd consider 'amazing'.

Countries I’ve Visited

Canada, China, Colombia, Czech Republic, England, France, Georgia, Germany, Hong Kong, Hungary, Indonesia, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Luxembourg, Malaysia, Mexico, Morocco, Netherlands, Nicaragua, Poland, Scotland, Singapore, Spain, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Israel, United Kingdom, United States