Mathematics (or something like that)

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For the summer of 2012 I am reading through two books, Fourier Analysis by Stein and Shakarchi, and The Road to Reality by Penrose. I am blogging about thoughts I have from these books. I think it would be pretty cool to have feedback here =)

In fall 2012, I will be starting a PhD program with plans of continuing the blog over my course work. If I pass quals in two years (fingers crossed) this blog may change focus.

Anyways, every time I have a new post I will post a link here. I won't have any of the pages or other info on this blog, but at least the bulk of the post will be the same.
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road to reality: chapters 1-5

Posted Jun3-12 at 10:37 PM by theorem4.5.9 (Mathematics (or something like that))

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Upon my reading of the preface, I am apprehensive to Penrose's claims. I do not have faith that this book is suitable to a lay audience, even one with prior experience to calculus. I do not believe that his explanation of the rational number system sheds much light to readers without logical backgrounds, and I can only extrapolate that his prose will be similar to this. Maybe this book isn't for the lay...
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