Abstractions
Wow! That's all a person can say. Wow.
Yesterday I discovered that a class I wanted to take next term wasn't going to be offered next term but it was being offered this term and the class that I was taking this term WAS being offered next term so theoretically I could drop the class I'm currently taking and pick up the other class, even though it's two weeks into the term.
Whew.
The class I wanted to take was Advanced Calculus, and it sort of threw me when I found it wasn't offered. So I e-mailed the prof and sat in on the class today. My goodness, you just are amazed at what they were talking about.
The lecture was on ... oh I don't know. Really, I don't. Defining "unique", 1-to-1, and "onto." Proving that there is a countable set of real and rational numbers. Proving that there is a set of uncountable numbers (though no one knows where the set of countable numbers stops and the uncountables start). Just ridiculous stuff.
I'm glad I'm going into Statistics instead of Mathematics.
posted by Byran @ 3:16 PM
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Sounds about as confusing as the theory of relativity. Which states that all things are relaltive. That's easy to buy, but then you get into how that relates to the speed of light and that's not easy to understand. So you have two objects coming toward each other, the one traveling at the speed of light and the other traveling at, say, half the speed of light. So what is the relative speed these objects have to each other? One and a half times the speed of light? No. It's the speed of light, at least according to Einstein. His postulation is that nothing can move faster than the speed of light so therefore the relative speed cannot be more than the speed of light. Don't ask me to explain why, though.
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