Kim Reece @kimreece@mathstodon.xyz

'rudimentary math', non-mathematician: adding and subtracting.

'rudimentary math', me: lets make triangles and turn them around!

I'm... not sure we're talking about the same thing?

#knzk we miss you!

Hope your federation gets better soon!

Got detoured for the morning by Cassels' Geometry of Numbers.

Maybe not my least productive distraction, but not what I meant to be doing either.

Poor planning means I have to be in two lectures simultaneously this morning. Yeah that'll really work.

"The arithmetical symbols are written diagrams and the geometrical figures are graphic formulas; and no mathematician could spare these graphic formulas, any more than … the use of … analytical signs."

"a mathematical problem … should be to us a guide post on the mazy paths to hidden truths, and ultimately a reminder of our pleasure in the successful solution."

#AcWriMo end. I accomplished... Enthusiasm.

That's enough for me because now I want to do more!

http://www.mathematik.uni-bielefeld.de/~kersten/hilbert/rede.html in german or in english https://mathcs.clarku.edu/~djoyce/hilbert/problems.html

Still feeling ill. But I read the intro and conclusion from Hilbert's presentation of his problems today. There is a lot of mathematical philosophy in there; it's worth the time to read twice.

History lecture was moved today to a special tour. Of a picture collection and stories about it, but not just *of* various university people including mathematicians. It's in what was the original building in which the math lecture halls were before Klein expanded the institute. I think I spent as much time looking at the architecture and imagining the work done there as I did attending to the lecture.

'no coats in the library'

*is so cold*

*sneezes* Chalk dust is equation dander.

I switched note strategies from {iPad + memory} or {evince + texstudio} to {kindle + paper} and laid out the last section of my talk at least 5x faster than I had any of the sections before it. (Though I still need to load texstudio to xfer that to slides.)

So, what made the difference? Outlining vs other note strategies, good xref on paper, reading better on eink, having seen enough of the book already? Definitely need to make more comparisons; I want whatever that boost factor is.

@trunk Please add me to Mathematics. #Trunk

#AcWriMo #AcWriInfty #AcWri\(\infty\)

Yay I got my LaTeX editing environment back in shape!

So little else has happened aside from schoolwork. But I'm ok with that. Every inch counts.