Saturday, January 19, 2013

First Post

So, here we are at the end of the week.
Sorry for not getting a post here sooner, I was occupied with getting an essay done and with a math test looming on the horizon next Wednesday, it'll take a while before the next post here.

Anyways, the concept of quantifiers started making much more sense than it did last week.
The quiz went well, and my experience with proving or disproving quantified claims worked well for Tuesday's tutorial/quiz.

I even met someone who was willing to help me. He was a graduate student who wanted to understand mathematical reasoning as much as the undergrads. He helped me and a handful of other other students in my tutorial on the venn diagram question. I look forward to seeing him again next week.

I felt that this week, I was not really giving it my all to concentrate on the lectures because I was easily distracted by going on the internet to read up something that I could have done after the lecture. I came out of the Wednesday's lecture with a bit of uncertainty that I could understand implications and negations.
However, at least on Friday's lecture, I could understand a bit better on implications and learned about vacuous truths and maybe, I could eventually understand the concept of equivalence.

Hopefully next week, these concepts will start making much more sense and perhaps, I'll be able to work on the assignment (perhaps with a partner).

1 comment:

  1. Glad things are starting to make sense. If there's specific things you don't understand you can always ask me during tutorial (or afterwards, if there's not enough time during tutorial) or email me at timo.vink@mail.utoronto.ca!

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