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Status: Mathematics (2018 - September)
(Text as at 10/10/2018 16:43:41)
(For earlier versions of this Note, see the table at the end)
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 17Q4 - 18Q3- I have spent 19 hours YTD on this Project, or related work, where for "YTD" - Year to Date - I mean the (academic) year that commenced in October 2017). That's 146% of the planned effort. Overall, 1% of my Project effort YTD has been directed towards this project.
- Very little time spent on this project this year and – as noted above – none of it is real mathematics.
- It was interesting to come across Alan Macfarlane’s interviews with Ken Moody and his wife, Jean Bacon1.
- YTD Activity2
Mathematics (Total Hours = 18.5)- Mathematics - Reading / Writing (Total Hours = 11)
- Mathematics - Admin (Total Hours = 7.5)
- Progress (if any) in the last quarter can be obtained from the relevant section of my Summary Task List3.
Plans for the Near Future:
Mathematical Resources
In-Page Footnotes:
Footnote 1: - Ken Moody was Director of Studies in Mathematics at King’s when I was there, and for long thereafter.
- I ran into the two of them in King’s at the tea prior to the 45th anniversary reunion for year 1973.
- As an ice-breaker, I introduced myself as Ken’s worst-ever student. After saying there would have been a lot of competition, he agreed rather too readily, I thought.
- So, the conversation got nowhere and Bob Richmond took over.
- I did, however, have a quick chat with Jean about the interviews, which she was surprised to have been 10 years past.
Footnote 2: - As this project is substantially inactive, I don’t update the text between quarters other than at the end of the academic year.
- Hence, the YTD Activity is to make this task easier, and to give a clearer idea of what – if anything – has been going on in the interim.
Footnote 4: - 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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