Each Time One Of You Followed Me, I Have Got A Smile On My Face.You Guys Have Made Me Smile Like A Hundred

What she says: I’m fine

What she means: How come Rene Descartes is only remembered as a philosopher, and the guy who said “I think therefore I am”? The Cartesian plane is NAMED after him and still only hard mathematicians know that he invented it. Also, the whole Newton/Leibniz argument completely ignores the fact that Descartes allowed both of them to discover calculus, because of his theories/ideas and invaluable work with exponents - he literally laid the foundations of calculus but no one mentions him when discussing who invented it. He even invented the modern notation of writing powers as superscripts as well as the convention of using x,y,z for variables and a,b,c for constants. Most importantly he INVENTED ANALYTIC GEOMETRY and pulled everyone’s collective heads out of their collective asses. He was one of the greatest mathematicians. But yeah, a cool philosopher too, let’s let “Cogito Ergo Sum” be his only legacy.

27/06/2021

Heya ^^

The past few weeks have been stressful to say the least.My college is rushing the current semester and so a lot of info is coming in a very short period of time.Im also preparing for competitive exams so that's a little more stressey.

On the bright side I got my first dose of vaccine yesterday and I was sick today.Im feeling much better now though.

I'll update you guys with my plans tomorrow and I have also found some good maths problem sets with solutions.(Manly university math courses).I'll share them soon.

Now gotta go sleep.

I hope you are having a nice day ^^ <3

Hello! I go by the name silenthoughtss over here (because that's what I do, sit and think a lot lol).My pronouns are she/her. I'm currently in my second year of undergraduate and I'm making this blog/joining the studyblr community as inspiration for me to study and work hard.

Interests

Literature

Singing (Mostly Indian classical)

Paniting

Languages and speech (Currently learning French and trying to learn Malayalam)

Content

I plan on posting daily schedule, motivation, success and struggles of doing a maths degree, my advice and take on studying! My content tag will be #studying with thoughtss

My Courses

Mathematics

Physics

Chemistry

Statistics

Hope to see you around❣

Hello! I really like your blog and it somehow makes me feel good and safe, your notes are really pretty! When I look at them they seem so interesting and I wish to understand them but the problem is I haven't even started university (I have just finished high school) and I'm kind of scared thinking it would be too difficult for me to grasp. It is just so different from high school math but at the same much more fascinating. Do you perhaps have any advice on how to introduce myself to it, where to start? Or should I just wait for the classes to start and then study?Best wishes to you!! Thank you

Hey @dantesdream !

I just want you to know that mathematics is difficult at the University level but it is not more difficult than any other university course.It is just different.📚

So how is mathematics different and why you shouldn't get discouraged by it?

There is an entire book written on it.It is called 'Alex's Adventures in Numberland' written by Alex Bellos.There is one particular page that I really like.It talks about how are brain perceives the world around us on a logarithmic scale but mathematics is linear and that is why we have to put the extra effort into it (To convert logarithmic to linear) but according to me this extra effort is far less than wading through hundreds of textbooks often contradicting each other that many other university courses require. Here is the cover page of the book I recommended if you would like to read it.

Apart from having a positive attitude towards it I think it'll be great if you could start studying it before your university begins.

So from where should you start?

If you know where you'll be going for your university studies then you can check if your university has uploaded their notes online and start accordingly.Some old students also usually post their notes,so see if you can get your hands on them.If these two options fail then there are two more.Oxford university has made all their mathematics notes avalilable.You can start with their Introduction to mathematics and complex numbers course (I'll put the link at the end).A student from Cambridge University named Dexter Chua also has made his notes available.You can start with Numbers and sets if you use his notes (Again I'll put the link at the end).

Oxford notes:

https://courses.maths.ox.ac.uk/overview/undergraduate

Dexter's notes:

https://dec41.user.srcf.net/notes/

You should be fine with these but the beginning steps into mathematics needs a little more help.You can use the book called as 'How to prove it:A structured approach' by Daniel J. Velleman.If you can read this with the first course that you are taking (your university notes or Oxbridge notes) then I think you'll enjoy the course more just like I did.Here is the image of the book

If you want to know more then I'm just a message away so feel free to ask your doubts.

And thank you for all your compliments hehe ^_^

[2.01 pm] Since morning I have been struggling with focusing on one thing.I did complete today's vector calculus stuff but with that I was also doing the drawing above and watching The wolf of Wall Street.My focus has been all over the place.I need to pull myself together.

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[7.57 pm] Done with 1 chapter of Analysis 1.It was about Cauchy sequences.I understood the proofs and was able to recreate them on my own.They were not perfect but I did get the gist.

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[9.18 pm] I am not going to finish the linear algebra chapter that I started.It is hard and I am not going to force myself.The world is not gonna end if I finish it a little late.So taking if slow.I did finish a chapter in group theory .I will do a bit of duolingo and sleep.I am planning on just doing vector calculus tomorrow and do duolingo the rest of the day.

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219 days left to go...

Will I make it ?

The Mayuriit Project.Stay tuned on a tumble blog near you.

I am currently studying Analysis 1.In that they proved that the square root of 2 is an irrational number using the approximation of supremum concept and I'm floored.The proof itself makes use of 2 concepts (the completeness axiom and the law of trichotomy).I'm just in love with that proof right now.

Above are some pages from my journal.

Hope you are having a goody goody day 🍰

july 17, 2021

Hey guys! This last week has been pretty amazing for me because I’ve gotten a lot of work done and I’ve barely procrastinated at all! And I’m definitely going to make an effort to continue this. Also, have a picture of my tiny little workspace now! It’s messy now, but it feels more authentic that way :)

17th July - What is your typical daily routine in the summer?

I usually spend my entire summer in between a state of sleeping, eating and reading on my phone but this summer I’ve been super busy, so that’s been quite impossible :’)

I love nights because I can peacefully think about proofs without self made restrictions (To do lists and life)

17/05/2021

Today I have classes till 4.30.I am not feeling great but I am determined not to be controlled by my negative thoughts.I will rest for some time after the classes then maybe have a cup of tea(I know drinking tea is not recommended after 2 lol but maybe an exception today), and start my work.Today I want to get done the following stuff

Complete revising my last week's maths content.(Hardly 15 minutes)

20 Problems from Group theory( at least 1 hour)

Group theory (Important actions and applications)(Maybe 90 minutes hopefully less lol)

Around 3 hours of work.Hehe not much but I'll be dead tired by the end of it.Okie see ya!

Hope you are having a wonderful day!!

Guess what?

My results got announced !

The results are for my third semester in undergraduate.I am a Math major.So I had 10 classes this semester and I got 7 A+ and 3 As.My sgpa came out to be 8.58.I am super happy and satisfied.I am aiming for a 9 or above this semester and the coming semesters.So join me in my journey and see if I do it 🤭( Hey I did a little bit of advertising there lmao)

That aside today I did the following stuff

Revised Group Theory probelms

Solved some more new problems on Group theory

Duolingo

I hope today treated you well 😇If not then I wish you a good nights sleep 🌙

Love 🖤