Month: June 2024

As planned, I read Infinite Powers today.

Today I read more of Infinite Powers. Part of the section I read discussed logarithms, which is the subject of my current chunk of my calculus book. A happy coincidence.

I’m going to plan to read more of IP tomorrow. I’ll try again to get myself in gear on Monday.

Today I read more of Infinite Powers. I fear this blog is becoming very boring.

I am indeed feeling better today, but I still stuck to reading Infinite Powers. I may be up to more calculus exercises tomorrow.

Today was rough, so I read more of Infinite Powers. I have some reason to hope I may feel better tomorrow. Keep putting one foot in front of the other, faithful readers.

I try to keep non-mathematical ruminations to a minimum on this blog, but today I will indulge a bit. I’m still struggling with my review project, and I don’t really understand why. Being away from home and having the extra responsibilities of house sitting is a stressor. Yet I feel as if I’ve been more productive in the past in the face of the same amount of mental drag. My feeling that I should be coping better is now becoming its own source of stress, which I realize is not productive.

At any rate, today I read more of Infinite Powers. I’m enjoying Strogatz’s in-depth exposition of a topic. His treatments of the many topics in The Joy of X were (by necessity) shallower than I would have liked. The latest protagonists of the tale are Fermat and Descartes, though the portrait of the latter is unflattering.

Today was not a day hospitable to good intentions, but I did at least manage more light reading. Let’s try this again on Monday.

Although my house sitting duties are light, I’m still having trouble fitting my review project into the changed routine. Yesterday, I forgot to do any study or blogging. Today I have only managed some light reading. I’m going to try to organize things better tomorrow.

I was very tired today, but I read more from Infinite Powers and also worked a bit on my question about the composition of functions. I didn’t make any new progress on the latter. I am too tired again to write about what I have worked out so far, also, so the curious will have to wait for that.

I almost forgot to post this evening, and I have only a few minutes before midnight. I had things to get done today that left me with limited energy, so my study time today was dedicated to more reading from Infinite Powers rather than to calculus exercises. More of those tomorrow, I hope.