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skateboard video web2expo vids may 2 2008 in humor video leave a comment i came across two really neat videos from the web2expo the first one is by clay shirky and it s about the cognitive surplus and how sitcoms are to the 20th century as gin was to the industrial revolution http web2expo blip tv file 855937 the second is by the fake steve jobs while i don t find his blog quite that funny the clip was hilarious http web2expo blip tv file 858285 check them out in the meantime i shall go back to revision mathematics is art march 21 2008 in math 1 comment there is surely no more reliable way to kill enthusiasm and interest in a subject than to make it a mandatory part of the school curriculum this is just one quote from the superb article a mathematician s lament go ahead read it you know you want to review of last term s courses january 9 2008 in math rant leave a comment turns out i m rather busy this academic year which probably explains my lack of posts so far so to break the silence let s review the courses i took last term elementary number theory the title of this course is misleading in two ways elementary certainly doesn t mean easy it supposedly refers to number theory using only elementary methods and let s face it this is sometimes harder than using more advanced techniques this incidentally is the other misleading aspect of its title there s a great deal of group theory and bits and pieces about rings and fields to be found in the course nonetheless this was actually my easiest course last term simultaneously i know people who called this their hardest course overall i enjoyed this course the lecturer was fairly entertaining and the material covered is pretty neat too metric and topological spaces of all the courses i took last term this course has the best set of lecture notes you can easily read through them and most of the course makes perfect sense furthermore most proofs are rather short and appear straightforward on the other hand this course had quite likely some of the hardest exercises there were a few questions on the problem sheets assessed ones that took me several hours to figure out i don t know if this is a general characteristic of analysis courses or whether i simply have more of a knack for algebraic courses but i really have the impression that if you really understand everything in the lecture notes then questions in algebra are often really straightforward whereas questions in analysis can still take ages nonetheless i thought this was a pretty good course much better than expected especially considering that the same lecturer gave the worst lecture of my second year when substituting for another lecturer group theory this was a much anticipated course as we finally covered things such as conjugation which i had already seen in my first year project the lecture notes were slightly disorganised but overall i m satisfied with the course though i still have to get the hang of semi direct products measure and integration this was by far the hardest course i took not just last term but in my entire academic career i still don t fully get all the material in the course but while revising over the holidays i started to understand a great deal of the material now i still have several exercise sheets to go over and see whether this new found understanding can be applied to the exercises hopefully i ll be able to find some time this term to ensure that i don t forget everything that was covered in the last term after all it s always better to polish material over easter rather than having to relearn everything though i already know that i ll have to do a lot of work for galois theory this term as the lectures were pretty awful so far then again i ve had so many ridiculously bad lecturers over the last few years that i got really good at teaching myself the relevant material scout niblett kiss january 9 2008 in music video leave a comment a came across scout niblett s song kiss on a too pure radio sampler yesterday and i like it a lot it s even got a really neat music video so do check it out don t procreate procrastinate part ii music november 17 2007 in fm4 music leave a comment some of you may remember part i of this highly successful series on great ways to waste your time online today s topic music obviously thanks to the web you can listen to thousands of different radio stations nevertheless i ll only list a few things of interest fm4 which has always been my favourite radio station has created a platform for bands to present their material to be specific that platform is for austrian bands as fm4 is an austrian radio station nonetheless there s a lot of great music by unsigned bands to check out in the soundpark also they host the protest song contest every year and you can listen to the finalists here at any rate it s always a good idea to tune in to fm4 as they play great music all day long another great place for music is npr i especially like their live in concert series i ve listened to quite a few great concerts so far for example regina spektor okkervil river nellie mckay and the new pornographers another great thing on npr is project song which seems to be a very recent show on which they give an artist 48 hours a range of topics to choose from and a studio and document the resulting song so far they ve only had stephin merritt of the magnetic fields but it s a fun video to watch now i don t remember if i ever pointed out that i m a great admirer of henry rollins work especially of his talking shows and for some time now he s also hosted his own radio show called harmony in my head you can download past shows from the rollins archive i ve listened to quite a few of his shows and i m sure his ecclectic taste in music will beat up anyone elses ecclectic taste in music another radio show i ve enjoyed listening to is zoe s show her taste in music is apparently so awesome that the beastie boys let her open for them the greek in la unfortunately she doesn t seem to be doing shows regularly but whenever she does a show i ll usually gladly listen to it i think this should be enough to keep you from getting anything productive done for quite some time if you ever get really desperate just tune in to icradio we ve started putting more recent music on the out of hours sustain system so you might even enjoy some of the music i ll end this post by linking to public enemy s video for their latest single harder than you think because it s clearly a brilliant song the killers feat lou reed tranquilize november 7 2007 in music video leave a comment i ve never been much of a killers fan but i ve got to say that their latest song is pretty damn awesome of course it helps that it features lou reed simply brilliant i keep listening to it over and over again halloween november 4 2007 in comedy video 3 comments unfortunately my hard drive crashed so i m late posting this brilliant video clip a good old school sketch from a bit fry and laurie stephen colbert on larry king live october 17 2007 in colbert video leave a comment i know it s been ages since i ve last posted but what can i say sometimes i m taking procrastination to entirely new levels i m sure i ll eventually get around to writing something halfway interesting in the meantime check out cnns podcasting and watch stephen colbert on larry king live it s even more awesome than you d expect second year at ic july 1 2007 in math rant 2 comments now that i ve completed my second year here at imperial college in london i figured i d update this thing again furthermore i m doing it the lazy way since i like to keep my a level maths teacher posted on how things are going i figured i d mainly rip off the mail i sent him so here we go this year we ve had the following courses algebra ii analysis ii probability and statistics ii numerical analysis vector calculus differential equations complex analysis rings and fields algebra ii was pretty straightforward as i had seen most of the group theoretical part while working on my first year project ie normal subgroups even and odd permutations and the part on vector spaces was pretty all right too so all in all it was one of the more enjoyable courses analysis ii built on what we had done in analysis i in the first year the idea of the course is to provide a rigorous foundation for the integral and differential calculus so there are things such as the intermediate value theorem the mean value theorem etc and the course more or less ended with the riemann integral next year i ll probably take measure and integration where we get to cover the lebesgue integral and other hopefully exciting measure theoretical things probability and statistics ii was not quite as boring as its predecessor but still highly annoying for some reason the stats courses seem to have been designed for maximum confusion while i had a rough idea of what it was all about at a level the lecturers have now managed to make me lose touch with every aspect of the subject this course was especially amazing in the sense that it managed to include the worst aspects of pure and methods courses on one hand we are given the rigorous definitions eg that the probability space has to be a sigma algebra but we never build on these rigorous definitions and instead are just expected to apply a bunch of methods without really knowing why they work or why we would use them in the first place so this is quite likely the last stats course i ll ever take numerical analysis was a pretty good course it s mainly about orthogonality and we covered things such as the gram schmidt algorithm givens rotations and qr factorization overall it felt a lot like a pure maths course as everything was proved and we weren t subjected to any kind of hand waving vector calculus and differential equations were definitely the two worst courses this year mainly because the lectures and lecture notes were completely useless which is kinda hard to believe considering that most of the content of these courses is pretty straightforward so i essentially had to teach myself these courses out of books so far the only courses where i was forced to rely on books other than that i didn t find them particularly interesting i have a tendency to find methods courses mainly pointless as they only teach us methods without understanding why they work or why we would want to use them in the first place hence it is no surprise that we won t choose any methods courses next year complex analysis turned out to be better than i remembered once i read through the entire notes at the end of the easter holidays the main problem with that course was the amount of repetition there is so much material that we had covered before in analysis i and ii so it is no surprise that i stopped paying attention in lectures early on seriously i can t believe we wasted the first three lectures on an introduction of the complex numbers after we covered them in at least three courses in the first year rings and fields was the conceptually most difficult course so far but at the same time this makes it one of the best courses we had the pleasure of taking unfortunately rings and modules isn t running next year so the only way we get to build on the material we ve covered in this course is by taking galois theory group representation theory and algebraic number theory next year though it s a small price to pay overall the summer exams went all right except for probability and stats ii which was several orders of magnitude harder than the past papers we had seen also most of the other exams were somewhat more difficult than usual nevertheless i am confident that i have passed all of them after the exams we ve had about four weeks to work on a group project when choosing the three areas we d like to work in i chose algebra numerical analysis and analysis thinking i really had chosen three pure courses but as it turned out choosing numerical analysis meant i ended up doing a highly applied project with some matlab coding the project title was computing phase transition phenomena in wetting problems i know a lot more about wetting problems than before but i can t really pretend that i understand any of it at least we won t have any group projects anymore the group i was in was for the most part great but the topic was a bit of a downer the next time we ll get to do a project will be the fourth year project that counts for 1 4 of the final year mark and since i m mainly choosing pure courses i guess it s safe to say that i won t be doing an applied project then from next year on we don t have any compulsory courses so my choices based on what courses are supposedly running next year are metric and topological spaces measure and integration group theory elementary number theory functional analysis galois theory group representation theory algebraic number theory i might also be checking out the lectures for the fluid dynamics courses after i ve seen some of the cool simulations the applied modelling and computation group are coming up with anyway all in all it was a pretty good year though i m really looking forward to the exciting courses i m going to take next year about hey i m in my final year studying for a bsc in mathematics at imperial college in london thus this blog will contain the occasional mention read epic poem of the queen of science blogroll kate abelian soup foxmaths foxmaths 2 0 geoffrey chaucer hath a blog good math bad math gooseania mathematics weblog me or my maths modulo errors the frustrated over analyst categories categories select category analysis 1 ballroom 2 blasphemy 2 blogs 1 books 2 colbert 4 comedy 4 comics 1 daily show 1 fm4 2 game theory 1 history 1 humor 7 jarvis 1 latex 1 love 1 math 23 matlab 1 mika 1 music 6 palahniuk 1 plagiarism 1 politics 1 procrastination 1 quotes 1 random 8 rant 12 religion 1 science 1 south park 1 technology 2 tv 1 uncategorized 1 valentine s day 2 video 11 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