This Is So Cool
that I cannot not post it (the double negative comes with the extra dose of caffeine in the morning). Here is the output that spells my surname. Go to this nifty calculator, input vain words and get ugly equations to your delight.
Academic Lectures From Top Universities
Academic Earth streams lectures from Harvard, MIT, Yale, Berkley, Stanford and Princeton. The web site is clean and easy to navigate. Everything is free.
Here is Benjamin Polak on Nash Equilibrium.
Emil Artin Says:
Our difficulty is not in the proofs, but in learning what to prove.
The quote is from Chapter 13 of Algebra by Michael Artin (Emil’s son). Naturally (as most of mathematics), it often applies to any area involving reasoning.
On another note, Algebra is by far the best math textbook that I have come across so far.
No More Hand Waving
I will devote the coming weekend exclusively to Rings (here and here) and Ideals (here and here). Soros on Soros: Staying Ahead of the Curve will help me relax in between theory and problems. If you see me posting after 12pm tonight something has gone terribly, terribly wrong.
