Posts Tagged ‘ linear algebra ’
Apologies for the lack of posting – it is currently the end of 5th week, and I realise I haven’t posted anything all term – so while these next few posts may be quite short, rest assured that longer ones will be coming in the future. So, week 1: lectures of 2nd year. First impressions: really, [ READ MORE ]
Much of this week (read: all day from Wednesday to Saturday) was taken up by mock exams and revision for said exams. It’d be boring to say too much about that, so I’ll just say that in general they went OK-ish, will probably be able to do better with more revision, and the one module [ READ MORE ]
It still surprises me, to the point of it being seemingly magical, how hot water can clean plates so much better than cold water can. A sign of reading thorough too many pages of Linear Algebra lecture notes is reading “exercise left to the reader” as “exercise left of the radar”. Many times. Maths lecturers copy lecture [ READ MORE ]
Who thought it was a good idea to put important exams in the same term as good weather? They just don’t fit together in any way. Anyway, I flew back to Oxford on the Monday, and so had a few days to sort myself out / revise before 2 3-hour exams on Friday. The Pure [ READ MORE ]
Although noticeably less busy than week 4 (at least on paper / Google Calendar), week 5 still turned out to be just as hectic as the week that preceded it. Linear Algebra was replaced by Groups, Rings and Fields, which has proved to be interesting enough so far, and probability was replaced by statistics (optional [ READ MORE ]