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Status: Mathematics (2018 - December + Ongoing)
(Text as at 06/01/2019 23:36:58)
(For earlier versions of this Note, see the table at the end)
The text of this report – apart from some statistics – hasn’t been changed since end September 2018 as this project is in abeyance. This report is generated automatically.
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 October - December 2018- I spent 5 hours in 4Q18 on this Project, or related work (5 hours YTD, where for "YTD" - Year to Date - I mean the (academic) year that commenced in October 2018). That's 38.5% of the planned effort (38.5% YTD). Overall, 0.8% of my Project effort in the Quarter was directed towards this project (making 0.8% YTD) - as against 1.9% planned (1.8% YTD).
- Very little time has been spent on this project this year and – as noted above – none of it is real mathematics.
- YTD Activity1
Mathematics (Total Hours = 5.5)- Mathematics - Reading / Writing (Total Hours = 4.25)
- Mathematics - Admin (Total Hours = 1.25)
- Progress (if any) in the current quarter can be obtained from the relevant section of my Summary Task List2, 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 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 3: - 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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