About

Hey — welcome. This is a personal study site I built while taking the Modelling and Simulation course at TUM. The course was great, and the people running it — lecturer and tutors alike — were generous, helpful, and clearly into the material. That kind of energy makes you want to dig deeper than the syllabus strictly asks, so I figured I’d study it properly and leave something behind that might help whoever comes next.

None of this is here because the lectures don’t cover the material — they do, clearly and well. It’s more that some concepts I personally needed a second pass on, from a slightly different angle, before they clicked. Mostly on me, not the material. So I started adding things that helped me get there: interactive visualizations you can play with, and the occasional more informal explanation that comes at the same idea from a different direction.

It’s not a replacement for the course material. It’s a companion — open it alongside the lectures when you want another angle on a concept.

The Course

Lecturer

Tutors

Book

The course draws from a book by the same professor:

Who Made This

I’m Rameş. I study at TUM and build things on the side. This site is one of those things.

How It Was Made

The workflow: attend the lectures, study the slides, take my own notes on what’s confusing and where the intuition gaps are. Then feed the slide content and my notes into an AI, and iterate. A lot.

The iteration is what does the work. A first pass rarely teaches well — explanations skip steps, analogies don’t quite land, and the tone defaults to a kind of robotic “as we can see” register where plain spoken English would do better. The math itself is usually fine; AI is good at carrying formulas through accurately. What needs pulling apart is the way of talking about the math — the voice. So I push back, ask for different framings, swap analogies, check things against the source, and go again.

To be honest: yeah, an AI wrote most of the words on this site (even this one). What I shaped was the output — prompt, push back, swap analogies, iterate. That’s also how I studied the material: read the explanation, notice what didn’t click, push until it did. The pages here are the versions I ended up standing behind, even if I wasn’t the one typing them.

The shape of the site, though, is mine. The definition and theorem blocks, the expand blocks for tangents you can skip, the embed system that pulls a defined block inline where it’s referenced, the hover popups, the index, the focus mode — those are design calls I made about what a study site should feel like. Lots of small affordances meant to nudge you toward actually learning instead of just scrolling past.

It all looks right to me — but I’m not an expert, and errors can slip through. If you spot one, open a PR or file an issue on GitHub. There’s a button for that in the header.

A Note on Content

The explanations here follow the lecture structure closely — same sequence, often similar framing. Some definitions, theorems, and examples are reproduced or lightly adapted from the course slides — there’s often no good way to rephrase a formal definition anyway. The textbook is listed above because the course draws from it, but I worked from the slides and live lectures rather than the book itself. No past exams or graded assessments are included.

This site is non-commercial and intended purely as a study aid. All original course material remains the property of the respective authors and TUM.

License

The original parts of this site — written explanations, visualizations, and code — are licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. Content derived from the course slides or textbook is not covered by this license and belongs to the original authors.

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