About me

I'm Carlos Raymond, a student researcher from Curitiba, Brazil. I fell for science the way some people fall for music — early, and completely. What began as curiosity about the night sky turned into astronomy olympiads, then mathematics, then the realization that every field I loved was really the same impulse: to look at something ordinary and ask why does it work this way, and could I prove it?

That question is what this site is about. I use it as a public notebook — a place to think out loud, in writing, at the standard I'd want a real researcher to hold me to. Every claim gets a reference. Every idea is open to correction. If I'm wrong, I'd rather find out here than carry the mistake forward.

I've been lucky to compete widely — three gold medals in the Brazilian Astronomy Olympiad, gold in the National Science Olympiad, medals in mathematics, and a winning project at a regional hackathon — but the competitions were never the point. They were how I found out how far a question can take you when you refuse to let it go.

Right now most of that energy is going into LIMIAR, a mathematical model of the best moment to stop studying. It started as a science-fair project and became something I genuinely can't stop thinking about.

I write in English because I want this work to travel. If something here interests you — or if you think I got something wrong — I'd love to hear it.