@TedShifrin I meant to ask if there is a S-rank rogue ninja in your class ;) .. (ie students who end up with good grades even though they miss out your lectures)
Teaching this class made me realize: (1) I should have taken the class as an undergraduate (the reasons I didn't made sense at the time); (2) I should have taught it years ago, before just before retiring.
Someone should tell Balarka that a good deal of pure math people doing number theory and algebraic geometry over finite fields think probabilistically.
Well I won't argue @Balarka as I don't know enough - personally I liked it, liked using the approach in Graph theory and other things - but then again, just me
Probabilistic (Ergodic at the moment, seeing the great development in the merging of the two branches) number theory is quite popular, in fact discovered by Erdos.
@Ted Balarka wants you to unignore him in exchange for never saying ignorant or annoying things again, and deeply apologizing for those past occurrences.
OK, I guess I have to go to sleep, even thought I won't sleep in peace as @Ted didn't yet unignore me. I'll come up with a solution to the push down problem after I wake up @Mike.
Mine is so hot all of the time that I own 3 copies of a certain book just to prop it on, without this it overheats when doing nothing with 3 of the 4 cores turned off and the remaining one clocked to the lowest 800mhz.
@JasperLoy I do not like his "Calculus of Several Variables" - well I don't mind it, it is just not of the same standard as his other books, it's slow and sparse on Analysis
@JasperLoy he has a separate book on Linear Algebra but wastes 150 pages with a shallow introduction in COSV, he probably could have put the entire LA book in that space!
I hate to say this (I'm looking for a reason to legitimately bitch at @TedShifrin for some reason) but I do recommend his expensive and out-of-print book, Multivariable Mathematics, it's ... really good
@JasperLoy I also hate the American system of "Calculus 1 2 and 3" it's just... horrible.
