Muhammad Afifurrahman

Special Sessions

I gave three separate sessions in Institut Teknologi Bandung (December 2024), Universitas Diponegoro (January 2025), and Universitas Gadjah Mada (February 2025) on preparations for studying graduate mathematics overseas, especially for mathematical research. Tl;dr please do mathematics overseas.

The slides are available in Bahasa Indonesia.

Mettamatika Project

Mettamatika Project comes from Spearhead Circle, a pop-culture collective based in Indonesia, with backbones from my friends in ITB. The main mission of this project is to produce books that blend mathematical contents with pop culture references.

Being a part of the scripwriter team in Mettamatika Project (under nickname Furra), I have made a series of mathematical zines on statistical bias in Mettamatika vol 0.5 (2023), a calculus book for Mettamatika vol. 1 (2024), a zine on June Huh in Mettamatika vol 1.5 (2024), and a statistics book for Mettamatika vol. 2 (mid-2025). All materials are in Bahasa Indonesia.

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The books are mainly sold at Comic Frontier, the largest Indonesian pop culture market, held twice a year. I have helped the Spearhead Circle (and cosplayed…) during the 20th edition.

First off, I’m not interested in ordinary people. But, if any of you are aliens, time-travelers, or espers, please come see me. That is all! - Haruhi Suzumiya

morfID

With several of my Indonesian colleagues, we build morfID, a blog that caters undergraduate mathematical courses in Bahasa Indonesia. Besides founding and handling technicals of the blog, I am currently working on the Ennumerative Combinatorics and Elementary Number Theory course.

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Podcast Bebas Linear

Podcast Bebas Linear is a long-running mathematical podcast in Bahasa Indonesia, created and hosted by Muhammad Rizki Fadillah and Laurence Petrus Wijaya, two of my friends from my time in ITB. Both are currently PhD students in UAE and USA. The podcast covers various mathematical topics, including explanations of mathematical theorems, biographies of mathematicians, history of parts of mathematics and interviews with Indonesian mathematics students and academics.

I have been serving as a guest host since April 2025, for the following episodes:

Beforehand I have been invited to ten of their podcasts episodes, as follows:

Other Media Appearances

Indonesian PhD Student in UNSW

I was formerly the coordinator of the Community of Indonesian PhD students in UNSW, from June 2023 to December 2024. Outside Indonesia, UNSW probably has the largest number of Indonesian PhD students, with 130+ members (as of January 2025) from varied backgrounds in the corresponding chatgroups. B Picture: Some Indonesian UNSW PhD students, taken during the welcoming gathering in T2 2024.

Mathematical Olympiad

I have been active in mathematical olympiads as a participant since elementary school. Currently, whenever I am elgible, I also help arranging (mostly marking) the selection tests for the Indonesian IMO team. I sometimes propose problems for OSN Matematika, the major national Indonesian mathematical olympiads and part of selections for the IMO Team. In addition, I was the Observer A for the Indonesian team at IMO 2021, held online.

Outsides of national selections, I also propose problems for KTO Matematika, an Indonesian nonprofit mathematical olympiad community founded by Indonesian mathematical olympiad alumni. I was also formerly their head of social media from 2016-2018.

Selected Other Activities