So I want to say first off that this post is going to be essentially worthless...but not because I didn't try to do the reading. I just didn't understand the reading from last time, which made the reading for today pretty close to impossible to understand. I tried to do the homework, and it was equally confusing. I am so nervous about this unit. The last few homework assignments have been terrible and I haven't hardly figured a single problem out without the help of the back of the book, lecture, or another student. So that's where I'm at. Hopefully my work schedule will cooperate and we can have some bonding time at office hours soon.
Linear combination proofs look like the proofs we were doing earlier in the semester with "Every number greater than 3 can be written as a combination of 2x+y=n. I would be lying if I didn't tell you that I just barely remembered what a linear combination is...and DUH that's what we were doing earlier.
The well-ordering principle has got to be the most confusing thing I've learned so far in this class. I don't understand its usefulness at all...and yet the book keeps using it...I feel like there's going to be a test question about it and I'm going to totally blank.
Have I mentioned to you that I dream in proofs? Yes. And the other day, the temple ceremony was coming into my head in the form of mathematical proofs. Something about this class has me pretty excited, because it has made my brain function differently.
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