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September 2005 Mathematics Learning Log

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Monday September 26, 2005
Learning Log Number 15

2:30 PM Lethbridge, Alberta

I spent some quiet time at Esquires coffee shop this morning making some pen & paper notes for the first chapter of "What is Mathematics?". I then continued this when I arrived at my uni office around 1 PM. The idea for the moment is to combine these hand notes with a printout of this web page and place both in a 3-ring binder.

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

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

Sept 26    

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

Sept 26 Sept 26 Yes

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

Sept 26    
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.

Content

See 4 pages of hand written notes.


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