So…with both the George Hrab gig and the free public lecture done and out of the way, you’d think I’d now have time to blog rather a bit more. And you’d be right. Sadly, however, the Internet appears to have different ideas. When I got home yesterday after a long day out at Healesville with [...]
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I’m not sure what to call this. Perhaps “Self Portrait on a Whiteboard: A Study in Madness” — regardless, if you ever find yourself doing something like this… …take the little fella’s advice. UPDATE: Okay, there was a little problem with the size of that picture that I’ve just noticed — long story short, I [...]
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While SWOTVAC (a.k.a. ‘almost exams’) is on, I have very little blogging time. As such, I’ve set up a few reposts of older pieces that recent readers may not have seen before. Enjoy! —– In Australia, or at least at the University of Melbourne, the general ‘vibe’ I get from fellow students is that access [...]
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If you are a University of Melbourne student, and you haven’t renewed your Student Union Membership for 2011 yet do it before next Friday. Seriously. No questions. Just freakin’ do it. … Okay, so you probably want some reasons. Here’s three fantastic ones: If you do it before next Friday, you get the discounted renewal [...]
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Give or take a month or two, that is. Does anybody remember when my grand plan was to write a series of short crash courses about my subjects, to give a feel of what it’s like to be a physics and maths student and give an overview of what it is I actually study? Does [...]
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Free…except for your immortal soul!!! Bwahahahahahahahaha!!! Seriously though, if you’re at the University of Melbourne why not come over to the Medley Theatre in Redmond Barry tomorrow (28/07/10) at 1pm — we’re having a welcome back week event for the University of Melbourne Secular Society: We’ll be screening talks from the Global Atheist Convention 2010, and [...]
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So, I’ve already touched on rings and modules. That only leave fields and Galois Theory to touch on in this series on university algebra (and my university subjects in general). When I first introduced fields during my discussion of different types of rings, I defined a field as ‘a commutative division ring‘. While this is [...]
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Yesterday, I gave a brief overview of rings (as algebraic structures) and promised more later on ‘modules’ and ‘fields’. The results I want to talk about are certainly deeper than the results to do with rings, however much of the terminology will hopefully now be familiar to you, as a great deal of it was [...]
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First — this is just made of win: And as if there were any doubt that maths is beautiful…
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Mmmm…the Navier-Stokes equations… Too abstract for you? Let’s see what happens when you apply them to simulate a fluid explosion…
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