Patterns first
Numbers and puzzles felt interesting before they felt like schoolwork.
Personal studio · India
A student learning mathematics, playing the piano, and following questions that do not have tidy answers yet.




I'm Shreyas Khaitan, currently in MYP 1 at Genesis Global School. I like subjects that reward patience—especially mathematics, music, science, and technology.
In Grade 5, I completed the Cambridge IGCSE Mathematics exam and scored 97%. It was a meaningful milestone, but mostly it encouraged me to attempt harder questions and stay open to ideas beyond the syllabus.
Away from equations, I spend time at the piano. Music gives me another way to think: precise, expressive, and never quite finished.
Try the studio pianoAsk Cadence, the AI that knows this corner of the internet.
Numbers and puzzles felt interesting before they felt like schoolwork.
Practice became a place to slow down. A scale is honest under the hands.
I study here, in a school that leaves room for questions as well as answers.
I completed Cambridge IGCSE Mathematics earlier than usual. It was a reason to keep going.
I'm in the first year of the IB Middle Years Programme, where questions are encouraged as much as answers.
Not a finished list—just a snapshot of what I am enjoying and learning about right now.
01Patterns, proofs, and the quiet moment when a hard idea finally clicks.
02Scales, harmony, and the patience of playing something slowly enough to hear it.
03Motion, sound, and the systems that explain why things behave as they do.
04Strategy, quick decisions, and making small playable things for the fun of it.
05Reading widely and being comfortable with not knowing the answer yet.
06Seeing how a simple idea can become something useful when it is built carefully.
Tap or glide across the keys, use your computer keyboard, choose a tone, or let the studio play Bach, a Clair de Lune motif, or a Fibonacci walk. Record a phrase of your own and hear it back.


A–; play · drag across keys for glissando · ⌘K quick actions
Two notes sound calm together when their frequencies form a simple whole-number ratio — while a real 88-key piano bends those ratios slightly using twelfth roots of two (2^(n/12)) so every key works.
The backbone of harmony. On a piano (2^(7/12)), it is shaved by 2 cents so all 12 keys stay playable.
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Built for a phone or a computer. A few remember your best score on this device; curiosity is the only requirement.
Describe any game you want to play — a nocturnal piano note catcher, a prime number space blaster, a zero-gravity runner, a reflex rhythm grid, or a custom quiz — and Cadence will build a playable version on the spot.
Glide across the nocturnal keyboard stage to catch falling musical notes that play a Debussy whole-tone scale while avoiding sharp static bolts.
Pilot the Gauss starfighter and fire pulse lasers at descending number asteroids. Prime numbers award triple points; watch out for stray meteors!
Pulse upward against gravity, thread your spark between oscillating resonance pillars, and collect golden harmonic orbs.
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