Shakil Mahmud Research Monographs & Offprints

Publications & Monographs

Comprehensive, publication-grade academic research monographs synthesizing theoretical physics, cosmic evolution, the history of mathematics, computational architecture, consciousness, macroeconomics, and Bengal civilization. Each 20-part collected work is available in open-access vector PDF and reflowable EPUB editions.

The Epic of Human Civilization
20 Parts • Complete Series
World Civilization 20 Parts • 50 Pages Open Access

The Epic of Human Civilization

From the megalithic sanctuary of Göbekli Tepe and the cradles of Sumer and the Nile to the Indus, Athens, Rome, the Silk Roads, the Industrial Revolution, and modern planetary civilization.

PDF (8.9 MB) EPUB (6.7 MB)
The Evolution of Money & Markets
20 Parts • Complete Series
Economics & Markets 20 Parts • 49 Pages Open Access

The Evolution of Money & Markets

From cowrie shells, Mesopotamian credit tablets, and Lydian electrum to Amsterdam shares, the gold standard, Bretton Woods, and CBDCs.

PDF (8.5 MB) EPUB (5.4 MB)
The Story of Consciousness
20 Parts • Complete Series
Mind & Consciousness 20 Parts • 47 Pages Open Access

The Story of Consciousness

From ancient trepanation and Cartesian dualism through Cajal’s neuron doctrine and split-brain neurology to qualia, quantum mind, and AI sentience.

PDF (6.5 MB) EPUB (4.3 MB)
The Story of Physics
20 Parts • Complete Series
Physics & Spacetime 20 Parts • 48 Pages Open Access

The Story of Physics

From Galileo’s kinematics and Newton’s gravity to Maxwell’s electromagnetism, Einstein’s relativity, quantum mechanics, and the quest for quantum gravity.

PDF (6.0 MB) EPUB (4.0 MB)
The History of Bengal
20 Parts • Complete Series
Bengal History 20 Parts • 51 Pages Open Access

The History of Bengal

A comprehensive 20-part historical journey from prehistoric Gangaridai and classical citadels to the 1971 Liberation War and the 2026 digital horizon.

PDF (9.9 MB) EPUB (7.3 MB)
The History of Computing & AI
20 Parts • Complete Series
Computing & AI 20 Parts • 46 Pages Open Access

The History of Computing & AI

Tracing the evolutionary architecture of thought from ancient tally sticks and Babbage engines to transformers, reasoning models, and the threshold of AGI.

PDF (6.8 MB) EPUB (4.0 MB)
The Evolutionary Odyssey
20 Parts • Complete Series
Evolution & Biology 20 Parts • 50 Pages Open Access

The Evolutionary Odyssey

From prebiotic thermodynamics at deep-sea hydrothermal vents through the Cambrian explosion and dinosaur dominance to the speciation of Homo sapiens.

PDF (18 MB) EPUB (5.8 MB)
The Universal Chronicle
20 Parts • Complete Series
Cosmology & Universe 20 Parts • 52 Pages Open Access

The Universal Chronicle

The epic 13.8-billion-year chronicle of reality: from cosmic inflation and stellar nucleosynthesis to planetary intelligence and cosmic horizons.

PDF (52 MB) EPUB (15 MB)
The Great Equations
20 Parts • Complete Series
Mathematics & Logic 20 Parts • 49 Pages Open Access

The Great Equations

A rigorous first-principles journey through the 20 most profound mathematical equations that shaped human understanding of reality, spacetime, and information.

PDF (10 MB) EPUB (7.6 MB)
The Story of Chemistry
20 Parts • Complete Series
Chemistry & Materials 20 Parts • 48 Pages Open Access

The Story of Chemistry

From primordial elemental philosophy and Islamic alchemy to the periodic table, quantum orbitals, molecular machines, and two-dimensional nanomaterials.

PDF (8.2 MB) EPUB (5.6 MB)
The Story of Genetics
20 Parts • Complete Series
Genetics & Molecular Biology 20 Parts • 50 Pages Open Access

The Story of Genetics

From Gregor Mendel’s monastery garden and the double helix to the genetic code, Sanger sequencing, the Human Genome Project, CRISPR-Cas9, and synthetic life.

PDF (8.5 MB) EPUB (5.8 MB)
The History of Philosophy
20 Parts • Complete Series
Philosophy & Epistemology 20 Parts • 50 Pages Open Access

The History of Philosophy

From the pre-Socratic Milesian dawn and the Athenian dialectic to medieval scholasticism, Cartesian doubt, Kantian aesthetics, and existentialism.

PDF (8.6 MB) EPUB (5.9 MB)
Game Theory & Mechanism Design
20 Parts • Complete Series
Game Theory & Mechanism Design 20 Parts • 52 Pages Open Access

Game Theory & Mechanism Design

From von Neumann minimax and Nash equilibria to subgame perfection, evolutionary ESS, auction design, the VCG mechanism, and cryptographic consensus.

PDF (8.8 MB) EPUB (6.0 MB)
Statistical Mechanics & Thermodynamics
20 Parts • Complete Series
General 20 Parts • 50 Pages Open Access

Statistical Mechanics & Thermodynamics

From Carnot engines and Boltzmann entropy to partition functions, Bose-Einstein condensation, non-equilibrium fluctuation theorems, and black hole holography.

PDF (10 MB) EPUB (5 MB)
The Epic History of Artificial Intelligence
20 Parts • Complete Series
General 20 Parts • 50 Pages Open Access

The Epic History of Artificial Intelligence

From ancient automata, Leibniz’s calculus ratiocinator, and the 1956 Dartmouth workshop to the AI winters, connectionism, Deep Blue, ImageNet, Transformers, and the threshold of AGI.

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Foundations of Machine Learning & Statistical Theory
20 Parts • Complete Series
General 20 Parts • 50 Pages Open Access

Foundations of Machine Learning & Statistical Theory

From PAC learning and VC dimension to loss geometry, convex optimization, SVM margins, kernels, ensemble variance reduction, boosting, and Bayesian graphical inference.

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Deep Learning Architectures & Representation Theory
20 Parts • Complete Series
General 20 Parts • 50 Pages Open Access

Deep Learning Architectures & Representation Theory

From backpropagation and universal approximation to CNNs, ResNets, Transformers, self-attention, rotary embeddings, VAEs, contrastive learning, and state-space models.

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Large Language Models & Generative AI
20 Parts • Complete Series
General 20 Parts • 50 Pages Open Access

Large Language Models & Generative AI

From subword tokenization, scaling laws, and distributed Megatron/ZeRO clusters to FlashAttention, LoRA, RLHF, DPO, diffusion ODEs, and multimodal foundation systems.

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Frontier AI: Autonomous Agents, Alignment & The Road to AGI
20 Parts • Complete Series
General 20 Parts • 50 Pages Open Access

Frontier AI: Autonomous Agents, Alignment & The Road to AGI

From reinforcement Markov decision processes and Monte Carlo tree search to autonomous tool-using agents, test-time compute scaling (o1/o3), mechanistic interpretability, and AGI alignment.

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Relativistic Astrophysics & Cosmology
20 Parts • Complete Series
General 20 Parts • 50 Pages Open Access

Relativistic Astrophysics & Cosmology

From the Einstein field equations and Kerr black hole thermodynamics to gravitational wave interferometry (LIGO), kilonovae, cosmic inflation, and the final fate of spacetime.

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The Architecture of Pure Mathematics
20 Parts • Complete Series
General 20 Parts • 50 Pages Open Access

The Architecture of Pure Mathematics

From ZFC axioms, abstract Galois fields, and algebraic topology to Riemannian manifolds, Cauchy residue theory, modular forms, and the grand Langlands Program.

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Theoretical Neuroscience
20 Parts • Complete Series
General 20 Parts • 50 Pages Open Access

Theoretical Neuroscience

From Hodgkin-Huxley conductance biophysics and spike-timing plasticity (STDP) to cortical microcircuits, attractor networks, neural coding, and biological vs synthetic intelligence.

PDF (10 MB) EPUB (5 MB)
The Dawn of Humanity
20 Parts • Complete Series
General 20 Parts • 50 Pages Open Access

The Dawn of Humanity

From Miocene hominoids and habitual bipedalism to the Oldowan dawn, archaic genomics, Neanderthal-Denisovan admixture, and the global saga of Homo sapiens.

PDF (10 MB) EPUB (5 MB)