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Revision as of 21:23, 13 December 2015
| Mark Sellke | |
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| Room | H312 |
| Year | 2018 |
| Course | Mathematics
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Things I like
- Tennis
- Roger Federer
- Ping-pong
- Math
- Pokémon
- Tasty food
- Cool temperatures
- Floor Pi
- Copying Jingyi
- Playing Smash poorly
- Clean dishes
Things I dislike
- Euclidean geometry
- Rafael Nadal
- Non-Euclidean geometry
- Simmons Hall
- Algebraic geometry
- The college admissions system
- Differential geometry
- Dirty dishes
- Tropical geometry
- GIR and HASS requirements
- Computational geometry
- Coding
- Other geometry
Classes
Fall 2014
18.715 (Representation Theory; Pavel Etingof)- I thought this class was wonderful. The problem sets were generally interesting and thoughtful (though long), and the material was beautiful. Highly recommended if you're comfortable with linear algebra and willing to work. The category theory at the end wasn't very good though.
6.046 (Algorithms; Dana Moshkovitz and Richard Peng)- I didn't like this class much. I found it not very interesting, and lectures were slow.
7.012 (Freshman biology; Eric Lander and Bob Weinberg)- I thought this class was surprisingly good, despite being a GIR. Test grading was kind of sketchy, but Lander was a great lecturer.
24.900 (Intro Linguistics; Adam Albright)- This class (a CI-H) was pretty cool at first, but the later material got pretty boring. I didn't like the early essays because they didn't have anything to do with the class. The big project was cool though; you interview somebody who speaks an unfamiliar language. Because of P/NR, I just gave up on the class for the last month.
Spring 2015
18.318 (Topics in Combinatorics; Choongbum Lee) - The topic this semester was extremal combinatorics. Material was pretty cool; I finally learned what the regularity lemma actually says. I didn't like how lecture notes were usually posted 2 weeks late, but it wasn't a huge deal.
18.783 (Elliptic Curves; Andrew Sutherland) - I really liked this class. The beginning focused on curves over finite fields, and had a lot of emphasis on efficient algorithms and coding, neither of which I found great. It then moved to curves over the complex numbers which was really cool. Problem sets took a long time but were generally interesting. Lecture notes were fantastic, so missing lecture wasn't a problem.
21H.141 (Renaissance Europe; Jeffrey Ravel) - My second CI-H. I kind of like history, but unfortunately this time period is all about religion, which I don't really care about. The essays were all pretty annoying, so I didn't like the class much.
24.111 (Philosophy of Quantum Mechanics; Bradford Skow) -The first month of this class was just linear algebra. Overall very easy HASS credit.
6.856 (Randomized Algorithms; David Karger) (dropped) - I like probability, but this class ended up being really boring with super sketchy (student) grading. I heard the later stuff is better though, but I only lasted a month so I'm not really sure.
Fall 2015
18.217 (Topics in Combinatorics; Richard Stanley)
18.755 (Lie Groups; David Vogan)
18.155 (Differential Analysis; Richard Melrose)
18.177 (Topics in Stochastic Processes; Scott Sheffield)
21M.600 (Intro to Acting)
3.091 (GIR)
