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I finished my topology tma today [fair copy]. The thing is a mess, but will be submitted, as is, tomorrow. Time is something of a problem, for me, just now.

'tma away' is always a wee bit of a wrench—you know that you could have done better. This one has been a huge annoyance to me; I know what I wanted to achieve and I came up way short. Many of my solutions lacked elegance, some were grotesque.

I always say that if, you are coding something and you can't see the whole of the code on a single screen you have a problem. I'm getting like this with maths, and this tma fails to jump that hurdle.

I think that my answers are correct but I came to them in a shitty, verbose, fashion. Everything was an expedience.

I hope that I'm developing a personal style with maths, if I amn't I'll give up. If you can't bring you into what you are doing, is it worth the effort? But aside from a couple of questions, I seemed to be brute-forcing my answers [taking all of the cases and dealing with them monkey-poke-fashion]. By the itching of my palms I knew that there was a neater way to do this stuff.

My trouble is that I'm lazy and impatient all at once. The only way to achieve elegance is by knowing what you are doing so well that you can look effortless, to others, when doing it. Pissing around at the last moment just won't cut it.

In the end, as ever, I'm bitching about me—comfortable with that, now for the, trickier groups tma...