Neither good nor bad. The good thing is that I think I should have passed, the bad thing is that the summit of my ambition is a grade three. Still that was always the plan.
[I'll write a proper post-mortem of this year's courses tomorrow.]
Now it's on to number theory and something about software. Time to gather some real marks. I now know that I can potentially do it at this level, all that's left is to show that I can.
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Hi Nellie,
Good to hear that you are confident you've passed. Well done. Onwards and upwards now
Jan
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well done mate hope you had a few beers afterwards.
My final trial is tomorrow
All the best Chris
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@Chris
Yes, Graham and I went to the digger's and agreed that we were Platonists when it came to maths.
Good luck tomorrow!
arb
nellie
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Glad it went ok Nellie. Good luck with the number theory
. I remember hubby doing that 35 years ago!
Take care
Sue
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Glad to hear it went okay. Good luck with the next one.New comment
@all
Thanks for your good wishes.
aw ra best
nellie
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In that case I think both of you should read Hume if you haven't done so already. I'm afraid I would describe myself as a constructive empiricist. Platonism is a disease which seems to affect pure mathematicians more than applied mathematicians who fall in love with their conceptual scheme. Penrose and Marcus du Sautoy being classic examples.
Hume's fork the distinction between the realm of ideas (pure maths) and matters of fact is so pertinent here. I give an outline in one of my blog posts here.
http://chrisfmathsphysicsmusic.blogspot.co.uk/search?q=Hume
Hume somewhat quaintly calls applied maths mixed maths in that it involves a generalisation from empirically deduced laws of nature which may or may not be exact.
Anyway I'm sure you and Graham are familiar with it. Sounds like we should meet up in the pub sometime with Duncan and thrash this one out.
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@Chris
Sounds like a good idea, I expect that we might disagee
arb mate
nellie
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Yes I expect we will but you learn more about another persons position by examining the reasons for disagreement and as long as it's done amicably it should be quite productive and interesting.
Best wishes Chris
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By the Way Dr John Gordon is doing a course at edinburgh uni dept continuing education on Plato going through the Republic chapter by chapter Next term I intend to do this to keep my philosophy hand in.