Two Q’s.
I PASSED! I PASSED! I PASSED! I PASSED! I PASSED! I PASSED! I PASSED! I PASSED! I PASSED! I PASSED! I PASSED! I PASSED! I PASSED!
WHEEEEEEE!
Now I have to find an advisor/supervisor committee.
Well, quals are over for now. The analysis exam was 2:00-6:00PM on Monday and algebra was 2:00-6:00PM yesterday. I think I may not have failed them. I felt better about analysis than I thought I would, and worse about algebra than I thought I would (but only because I had higher expectations for algebra than […]
There will be a more substantive post on the goings-on in my life sometime next week, but for now I’ve got a question for the mathy types out there: Given any prime integer p, is p(p^6-1)/7 always an integer? I think the answer is yes, but I don’t know how to show it. Perhaps using […]
I was playing with Boinx iStopMotion the other day (which I got as part of the MacHeist 2 software bundle), and this was the result…. Notice how hard we work:
Well, the first semester of graduate school has come and gone, and I’m still alive to tell the tale. That’s a good sign. My finals week was actually all right, with the exception of the analysis final on Monday. It was awful. It did not go well for anyone, so there’s some solace in that. […]
No time for a real post right now, but I thought some of y’all would appreciate this. I’m playing on the math grad students co-ed rec flag football team (brilliantly named the Mathletes). We won our first game last night by forfeit, and so we had time for a practice. We designed four basic plays […]
If only I could’ve done this on my algebra exam the other day…
Well, since Mini insists, I suppose I’ll spare time for an update.
Life in Lincoln has been OK, aside from the random old woman who ran a red light and hit my car last week as I was making a left turn. The accident was completely her fault, and she acknowledged that, which helps, but doesn’t […]
FACT: Paul Erdős is the Barry Bonds of mathematics.
QUESTION: Is Barry Bonds the Paul Erdős of baseball?
Discuss.
Well, I’ve completed my week of orientation here at the UNL Department of Mathematics. It was nuts. Lots of long, boring talks from people who continually told us obvious things. The funny thing is that the few things I was really excited about (getting a key to my office, getting my log-in info for the […]
