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Diophantines. Tonight.

Maths has been getting to be a bit of a stretch for me for a while now and M381 will maybe, probably, be my last maths course.

[Although I feel a bit contractually bound to doing M209 because of my mate Chris. Actually I will have to have a look at the dark side sometime, and feeling that I am doing it for Chris will help.]

This has been hard for me, this being the OU stuff. A lot of it has come easy—computer stuff, a lot of it has been challenging—early maths stuff, lately maths has been a batcrap crazy madness that makes you feel that you are climbing down a wall with weights tied onto your head; weights that float.

But there are times; like tonight. Tonight when I began to see a structure in numbers that I wouldn't have see without the work I've put in. I'm still scrabbling at the harling, of the wall, of the building, that is part of, the maths complex.

Today I saw something that Fermat saw, and I saw it without a prompt. Doesn't matter that I was a horse lead to drink.

I saw it for myself. That matters.

 

 

 

I'd planned that my m381 moans would be off-set by a, much more chipper, post about m256, where I'm having such fun. A balance if you will. However, you will have to put up with my regular moaning self.

But for once, it wasn't a total disaster, for me, depending on your hierarchy of bad things and point of view.

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Let me just state, for those peeps who are just starting their OU trek something about me, I moan and bitterly complain about my OU trek, but it has been the best thing that's ever happened to me.

So when I come across all negative don't look at it as anything else than that I'm a whiney arse.

Have fun folks, this is really the best place to be.

arb

nellie

on the long march to redemption has been planned

You must use it well.

That I'd go mad and do something...

A man finally arrived with my brown-box of numbers books. I had planned to spend some quality time with topology today. That plan went out of the window.

Today I've spent my time sitting on the floor reading my numbers books [it's a holiday in Edinburgh today]. I'm going to like this course: universal register machines, primative recursive functions, prime numbers, computability ... this is geek heaven!

I will have to spend much time on topology, groups and the hated geometry over the next few weeks but now I have a pudding to look forward to.

This is what I signed up for, sheer logical madness and I have a computer course starting in February too.

I'm neo again.

Having been so busy cocking up unfinished TMAs over the past couple of weeks I hadn't really though about my next set of books. They are now, "out for delivery".

As many of us know, this is not the same as they are going to delivered any time soon. But it does mean that I need to start another blog <sigh />.

I should probably do that now.

I can't say that I'm in my usual state of excitement but I know that will change when the books eventually do arrive.

Number theory eh? Wonder what's that about?