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Michael.P
Michael.P
21:26
Hey
CaptainAmerica16
CaptainAmerica16
What up
Michael.P
Michael.P
Is it omegle?
asl
CaptainAmerica16
CaptainAmerica16
??
Michael.P
Michael.P
A tiny joke
So where are you at?
CaptainAmerica16
CaptainAmerica16
In America.
Michael.P
Michael.P
21:28
No, I mean in terms of studyin Spivak. You say you haven't started the problems yet
CaptainAmerica16
CaptainAmerica16
Inequalities.
Michael.P
Michael.P
That was the least fun part of chapter one
for me
CaptainAmerica16
CaptainAmerica16
Oh yeah? Why do you say that?
Michael.P
Michael.P
Inequalities in themselves seem kind of vague to me, especially if there were couple of them in a single equation, I just didn't know how to aproach them without feeling like I'm applying illegal move.
CaptainAmerica16
CaptainAmerica16
I definitely get what you mean. They kind of just feel like computation, doing proofs with number properties feels like I'm actually proving stuff. If you know what I mean. When I see proofs with inequalities, I kind of avoid them. Probably not a good habit.
Michael.P
Michael.P
21:38
Yeah, exactly
I didn't allow myself to miss anything until recently
CaptainAmerica16
CaptainAmerica16
In regards to problems? I'm way different. I just do the ones that look fun.
Michael.P
Michael.P
Yeah. I just realized it was way too time consuming to try to reach every conclusion on my own
CaptainAmerica16
CaptainAmerica16
Well, kind of. Ted gave me some recommendations of ones that'll be important later on.
It does feel kind of bad when you can't solve a problem.
Michael.P
Michael.P
Well, I always have that nagging feeling inside: "what if one day this little problem will open a door for a grand solution, but I won't know because I never proved it"
Not as bad as when you download answerbook -_-
CaptainAmerica16
CaptainAmerica16
I didn't know the answer book was available for download. I have a feeling I'm going to need it. XD
Michael.P
Michael.P
21:41
haha
You bet you will
Unless you are like Will Haunting Maxwell and Newton had a child
then you will only have to look at the back sometimes :D
CaptainAmerica16
CaptainAmerica16
Considering I burned myself multiple times trying to bake chicken today - probably not lol
Michael.P
Michael.P
Are you at Uni?
CaptainAmerica16
CaptainAmerica16
Nah, high school.
Michael.P
Michael.P
Senior?
CaptainAmerica16
CaptainAmerica16
Junior
Michael.P
Michael.P
21:44
Started early, nice
CaptainAmerica16
CaptainAmerica16
I didn't how into math I was until last year. I used to hate it because of the way they teach it in school.
Michael.P
Michael.P
And what happened last year?
CaptainAmerica16
CaptainAmerica16
I was looking for some coding courses on EdX and accidentally came across one on math and philosophy. It was focusing on Godel's Incompleteness Theorems. I looked up what that was and have been hooked ever since.
Michael.P
Michael.P
On that note, I hope you're in it to stay. Sure we'll be able to do some interesting work in the future :)
CaptainAmerica16
CaptainAmerica16
Definitely :D
I have to do a bit more homework now. We can just ping each other when we want to do some work. I wish we were at the same spot, but at least you can help me understand some stuff from ch. 1 if necessary.
I won't be available from 6:00 - 10:00 pm tonight though. Don't know how useful that is considering we're probably in different times zones, lol.

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