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Status: Mathematics (2020 - September)
(Text as at 04/10/2020 00:27:22)
(For earlier versions of this Note, see the table at the end)
As this project is substantially in abeyance, this report is mostly generated automatically, with minor textual additions at the end of each academic year.
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 July - September 2020- I spent 1.5 hours in 20Q3 on this Project, or related work (28.25 hours YTD, where for "YTD" - Year to Date - I mean the (academic) year that commenced in October 2019). That's 11.5% of the planned effort (54.2% YTD). Overall, 0.2% of my Project effort in the Quarter was directed towards this project (making 1% YTD) - as against 1.9% planned (1.8% YTD).
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Mathematics (Total Hours = 1.5)
- Mathematics - Reading / Writing
- Mathematics - Admin
Summary of Progress during October 2019 – September 2020 (YTD Activity1)- Mathematics (Total Hours = 28.25)
- Mathematics - Reading / Writing (Total Hours = 25.5)
- Mathematics - Admin (Total Hours = 2.25)
- 19Q3 Status Reports (0.5 hours)
- 19Q4 Status Reports (1 hour)
- 20Q1 Status Reports (0.25 hours)
- 20Q2 Status Reports (0.5 hours)
→ See "Admin - Mathematics - Admin" (2.25 hours)
- Mathematics - Lectures
- As can be seen from the list above, this project has been almost completely inactive over the last Quarter, but had some activity earlier in the year.
- There were a few interesting and relevant items on Aeon – in particular “The windmill problem6” – but otherwise the highlights were a couple of problems – a Prime Number problem and Kaprekar’s Constant – sent me by Jack. See the links in the YTD list above.
- Progress (if any) in the current quarter can be obtained from the relevant section of my Summary Task List7, and YTD in the current & future “automatic” editions of this report.
Plans for the Near Future:
Mathematical Resources
In-Page Footnotes:
Footnote 1: - As this project is substantially inactive, I don’t update the text quarterly as for the active projects, but only at the end of the academic year.
- If there are hours in the Plan, the Quarterly and YTD figures appear against that plan and are “as at” the end of the last Quarter.
- The YTD Activity-list is to make the end-year task easier, and to give a clearer idea of what – if anything – has been going on in the interim.
Footnote 9: - 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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