So the abacus is making a comeback in Japanese elementary schools! I'm really enjoying this; I truly truly hope it will spread back into common use because it busts wide open plenty of dumb myths about math being hard. Learning your times tables by rote is hard. Using an abacus - including a mental one - is easy. And hey, helping our kids focus and ( Read more... )

and I feel really, really good. Damn, it's nice to get 8 hours a night ( Read more... )

Is Z/n actually distinct from what normal people generally refer to as Z/nZ? Munkres is being vague and I'm stalling on brainpower, so I'm going to take a grocery break and come back to the mathiness of things later. Still.

Z/nZ, people. It is not that hard.

Well, that was mildly discouraging, given how much I studied for it. I didn't come close to finishing the thing, even- started the last problem having skipped two pieces of earlier ones, and barely had time to dash down an idea of how I would solve it before we had to hand the papers in ( Read more... )

Reasons why I wish I wasn't a math major, #62: Problems in which the index m is used for two different things and the index n is used for three.

Reasons I'm a math major, #6 ( Read more... )

Icon meme, you know the drill. Comment and I'll pick 7 that you have to explain. Possibly.

Hit up from eva_kasumi. ♥

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Yeah so

I woke up this morning after about 4 hours' sleep and made myself a breakfast of egg yolks and grated cheddar, holywow. Talk about ways to start your day. I hugged a lovely lady goodbye and went to

Class 1: Return of the First MidtermThey posted grades over the weekend and today we got to hear from the prof about it. My score was a 37 (Q ( Read more... )

So something cool happened in Topology today ( Read more... )

HUaaaaaghh, done for the week nao ( Read more... )