Having had a good day on Monday, I didn’t manage to do any study at all on Tuesday. My mind was on another project and time got away from me.
Today I tried to continue working on the proposition about trapezoids, but found I didn’t have enough mental energy. I relistened to more of A Brief History of Mathematics instead, hearing about Fourier and Galois. (Galois is one of math’s romantic heroes. Political radical, briefly imprisoned for his republican activities. Killed in a duel at 21, but leaving highly original work behind.) Made curious about Galois’s work, I left off listening and went to look him up in a lovely reference book I have called The Princeton Companion to Mathematics. I read the article on Galois himself and part of the article covering the branch of math called Galois theory. I did lose the thread of that article after a while.
In other news, I’m currently working through the involved application process for a volunteer position I hope to get. There are many applicants, so there is a good chance I won’t be selected. If I am, though, I’m not sure what it will mean for my math review project and this blog. I’m not sure what the future of those things should be, in any case. Despite my good day on Monday, I still feel as if I’ve lost something I need to sustain them.