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September 2005 Mathematics Learning Log

An Example of a "Learning Process" Journal
Sunday September 25, 2005
Learning Log Number 14

9:25 am Lethbridge, Alberta

I have been playing with my daily journal web pages and have created the following table for monitoring my mathematics activities.

Mathematics      
Description
Start
End
Done
What is Mathematics? (1941) Richard Courant & Herbert Robbins      

Read chap 1 The natural numbers [p. 1 - 20]

     

Notes for chap 1.1 Calculation with integers [p. 1 - 9]

     

Notes for chap 1.2 The infinitude of the number system [p. 9 - 20]

     
Read chap 1 supplement The theory of numbers [p. 21 - 51]      
Notes for chap 1 supplement 1.1 The prime numbers [p. 21 - 31]      
Notes for chap 1 supplement 1.2 Congruences [p. 31 - 40]      
Notes for chap 1 supplement 1.3 Pythagorean numbers and Fermat's Last Theorem [p. 40 - 42]      
Notes for chap 1 supplement 1.4 The Euclidean Algorithm [p. 42 - 51]      
       
Calculus (1994) Michael Spivak      
Read chap 1 Basic properties of numbers [p. 3 - 20]      
Notes for chap 1      
Exercises for chap 1 [p. 13 - 20]      
       
Prime Obsession (2003) John Derbyshire      
Reread chap 1 - 8 [p. 1 - 136]      
       

 

Review

I am also struggling with deciding on an appropriate format for my notes, particularly when I am actually doing mathematics. The choices are: hardcover notebook, looseleaf binder (with blank pages or lined pages), or web pages.

 

I want to try printing a web page or two for possible inclusion in a binder.

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