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Status: Mathematics (2024 - September)
(Text as at 10/10/2024 00:47:31)
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Rationale for this Project
- This is rather an eccentric activity, partly an attempt to exorcise some ancient demon – the rather bruising experience of reading mathematics at King’s College Cambridge back in the mid 1970’s.
- However, any modern educated person should be reasonably up to date with the mathematical sciences, and statistical and probability theory are essential tools for evaluating evidence, and are useful in Bridge! If only advanced mathematics wasn’t such a difficult subject.
- This project is diverging from Mathematics per se to the Philosophy of Mathematics and other related subjects. For instance, Philosophy of Mathematics features in Philosophy of Religion by providing an analogy or model of the sort of necessary existence that God is supposed to have.
Summary of Progress during 23Q4 - 24Q3
- I have spent 25.5 hours YTD on this Project, or related work, where for "YTD" - Year to Date - I mean the (academic) year that commenced in October 2023). That's 97.8% of the planned effort. Overall, 0.9% of my Project effort YTD has been directed towards this project.
- Further details follow (for the latest Quarter: 24Q3):-
Mathematics
- As can be seen, I did absolutely nothing on this project in the last quarter (as planned!) and little more during the year (especially in 24Q2, for which it wasn’t worth producing a report). This project is effectively moth-balled.
- What I did for the academic full year just ended can be found from the Mathematics section of the relevant YTD Summary Task List1 report.
- Progress (if any) in the current quarter can be obtained from the Mathematics section of my Summary Task List2, and YTD in the current & future “automatic” editions of this report.
Plans for the Near Future:
Mathematical Resources
In-Page Footnotes
Footnote 3:
- Trying out Math Trainer ("Admin - Math Trainer") seems a bit eccentric, but I’ve found that – as the time has passed – I’ve got lazier and lazier with mental arithmetic, and could do with perking up a bit. The App seems of some use.
Footnote 5:
- These are not left over from my Cambridge days as these few books were given away to my sister’s high-school in Gloucester by my mother during my brief sojourn with the Carthusians.
- Rather, I found them going cheap in bulk at a local second-hand bookshop.
- They are accessible via …this link.
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