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[oyceter]

So despite completely freaking out over my class before it started, I have now discovered that I am eagerly anticipating being able to watch the lectures when I get home. And... yes possibly i was excited about the new problem set.

This is not a class on Japanese history! No! It is a class on discrete mathematics!

Could someone find whatever aliens have taken my brain and thank them?

I suppose this isn't that much of a surprise; I loved to do logic puzzles and games when I was a kid, and right now, the problem sets for formal logic proofs feel a lot like that.

Still. I was up till 4 in the morning last night because I couldn't stop thinking about one problem I wasn't getting right, and when I solved it, I had to get out of bed and stick it in the computer, just in case I forgot come the morning. I have finished my problem set TWO WHOLE DAYS before it is due! And I actually get stuff! And it is sort of cool and exciting and nicely formal, and it is so lovely going step by step and just watching all these proofs fall into place, like teeth on gears clicking together.

I had forgotten that a long time ago, I used to like math for its precision and accuracy, for things like Euler's proof that irrational numbers exist.

Comments

[telophase.livejournal.com]

GIP!

I love the idea of mathematics, and I like reading about other people doing mathematics, but when I try to do them, it's all mud to me. XD

[oyceter]

I know! I am so happy that I can actually do some and get it!

[yhlee.livejournal.com]

YAY!

[oyceter]

Hee! I thought you would enjoy ^_^.

[jinian.livejournal.com]

Yay math! (I will never know why math programs force people through so much less-fun stuff before giving them logic and number theory goodies.)

[oyceter]

The logic and number theory is actually quite nifty right now! I fear they'll rapidly get to a point where I don't understand it, but just the concepts of proofs and knowing how they work is so cool!