Enoch Yu
Hello! Thank you for visiting my website. I am Enoch Yu, a rising high school junior in South Korea. I retain keen interests in numerous fields including pure math, machine learning, and quantitative finance.
Currently I am...
- Preparing for the upcoming national math olympiad
- Studying a specific transformer architecture for modular tasks
- Running Nanum Learn
- Configuring my setup for the infinite productivity loop
Selected Honors & Awards
Academic
2026 AP Scholar with Distinction
Issued by College Board • Jul 2026
The college board award is given to students who scored at least a score of 3 on at least 5 exams and have accumulated average of 3.5.
2026 Korean Mathematical Olympiad Stage II Qualification
Issued by Korean Mathematical Society • Jun 2026
Approximately 400 students with outstanding score on the first stage of Korean Mathematical Olympiad are invited to compete in the second stage of the olympiad for national team selection for the International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO).
2026 MathCON Finalist
Issued by MathCON • Apr 2026
Participants who scored in top 1% to 2% are invited to the final round of MathCON in Chicago.
2025 AMC 10 Top 10%
Issued by Korean Gifted Students Evaluation Association • Jan 2026
The honor is accoladed to students who scored in top 10%.
2025 Korean Mathematical Olympiad Stage I Honorable Mention
Issued by Korean Mathematical Society • Jun 2025
Honorable mentions are awarded to students who scored in approximately top 300 in South Korea.
2024 AMC 8 Honor Roll
Issued by Mathematical Association of America • Feb 2025
Honor Roll is awarded to students who scored in top 5%.
2023 AMC 8 Honor Roll
Issued by Mathematical Association of America • Feb 2024
Honor Roll is awarded to students who scored in top 5%.
Volunteering
2025 Gyeonggi Province Volunteering Certificate of Commendation
Issued by Chairman of Gyeonggi Province Volunteer Center • Dec 2025
The certificate is awarded to around four people per quarter who dedicated their time and effort in improving the community.
2024 Gyeonggi Province Volunteer Center Chairman Award
Issued by Chairman of Gyeonggi Province Volunteer Center • Nov 2024
The award is accoladed to around four volunteers per quarter, who dedicated their time and passion for their community.
Publications
2026
Enoch's Notebook: An Introduction to Linear Algebra (Read More)
Aug 2026 • A free 173 pages book on essence of linear algebra
Enoch's Notebook: An Introduction to Linear Algebra is a free book that contains the essence and foundations of linear algebra. The book initially started as a course notes and was published with free PDF and Amazon.
Experience
Leadership
Nanum Learn
Aug 2026 - PRESENT • Founder & President
Nanum Learn is an educational initiative that aims to accelerate open learning by providing original and accessible resources such as books, classes, and handouts with permissive license. The initiative is in beta and hosted in nanumlearn.enochyu.com.
ChungManHan Holy Phil Orchestra
Jan 2017 - PRESENT • Concertmaster
ChungManHan Holy Phil Orchestra is a church orchestra comprising over 100 members. As the concertmaster of the orchestra, I serve as the primary assistance of the conductor and leader of First Violin.
Internship
DNA Math Academy
Jun 2024 - PRESENT • Instructor
To share the beauty of math, I occasionally tutor math in DNA Math Academy in South Korea. Moreover, I quarterly lead sessions for math competitions and Olympiads such as AMC and national Olympiads.
Projects
~ Present
LibreNotebook (Read More)
Giant and free notebook
LibreNotebook is a giant and free notebook that anyone can read and modify. The purpose is to inspire and accelerate open education as a way of returning the blessings that we received from public educational resources. PDF of the most recent draft is available.
Problem of the Day - 100 Problems for 100 Days (Read More)
YouTube videos explaining 100 math olympiad problems
As the name suggests, the project contains 100 problems from diverse sources, where I made a video for the problems. The playlist to the explanation videos are available here! The solutions are mixed works of my personal solutions, solutions founded by community, and official solutions.
2026
Daygraise
A CLI tool to manage your task and visualize productivity
Please visit here for more information.
JavaScript Mini-Projects (Read More)
Fun websites that I made while learning web development
As an ardent high school sophomore who loves math and programming, I decided to create mini-projects with JavaScript. The purpose of this project is to document my learning journey and to actively engage in learning different programming languages on my own. Total of three mini-projects are created each with detailed explanation, demonstration, and source code.