Cynical reviews of my courses 3 days into the semester
January 19, 2009 at 12:57 pm | In Mathematics, Uni | 3 CommentsMATH518 – Integral Lattices. Superfast lectures about things I’ve never heard of.
MATH536B – Algebraic Geometry. Superfast lectures that started by saying “Everything we said about varieties last semester is true about schemes, except when it’s not. Let’s keep going”.
ECE637 – Channel Coding. This is an engineering course. We’ve already used the fact that 10^3=2^10 as well as used the word ‘finite’ to mean non-zero.
MATH599 – Independent study. Continuing research from last semester. We’re stuck on a lemma from the paper whose entire proof consists of the word `straightforward’.
Teaching – Calc I. This is one hour a day, 5 days a week. At least most of the homework is online (webassign) so it’s less work for me.
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Finite is a number that is not zero and also not infinity. Get it right….
Comment by David Barry — January 19, 2009 #
Wrong. Zero is the most finite number.
Comment by martinleslie — January 19, 2009 #
Zero is so not finite. A number can only be finite if its reciprocal is also finite.
Comment by David Barry — January 20, 2009 #