disparate bits: at a coffeehouse.

[grey_ghost]

"All Blues" is vibrating through the coffeehouse speakers, from the Miles Davis album Kind of Blue. It's a great but ubiquitous album. My sister once called it "coffeehouse music" or on a more sarcastic day, "Starbucks music." [1]

Now Kind of Blue might as well be for coffeehouses what Led Zeppelin is for car commercials. Good songs and melody

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[psifenix]

There's a grad course on Sobolev spaces here next semester. I am not taking it! Last time I took a grad analysis course for fun it nearly killed me. ;)

[grey_ghost]

Last time I took a grad analysis course for fun it nearly killed me. ;)

I think I know the feeling, all too well. (;

[grey_ghost]

My curiosity got the better of me and I stopped by your profile page. Carnegie Mellon University!

I cross-registered for a class there when I was an undergrad at Pitt; Bill Hrusa gave a topics in analysis course on the Calculus of Variations. Lots of fun, and I enjoyed his lectures. q:

The CNA (Center for Nonlinear Analysis) does have a strong influence in your mathematics department, so I wouldn't be surprised if analysis is quite hard!

[palpablevt]

what Led Zeppelin is for car commercials

It's just the one though, right? The one obviously super-ubiquitous one that causes you to make that association? I hate ads

[grey_ghost]

one's enough.

[psifenix]

I haven't taken a course with Hrusa yet. =/ If he teaches a topixx course I will, though... So far all I've had opportunity to take from him is Complex (which I already did the grad version of) and Math Finance (which...I don't really want to take). =P

Yeah, stupid CNA! The department is full of silly applied analysts. =) We need more algebraists and number theorists. =9

[psifenix]

Oh livejournal, you put the comment in the wrong place. :o

[grey_ghost]

Yeah, stupid CNA! The department is full of silly applied analysts. =) We need more algebraists and number theorists. =9

I never said that analysis is a bad thing.

Why is it that the discrete folks cast aspersions at the analysts and diff-eq crowd? My experience tells me this, but then again, I'm an analyst and it's easy to remember the receiving end of things. \:

[psifenix]

Oh no, I like analysts, don't get me wrong. We just don't do much else here, and it makes me sad cuz all the cool classes are analysis, and I'm no good at that. =)