I've started!
4 years ago
Into Chapter 2 in my calculus text of choice. I’m working all the solved problems, and re-working them until I get them right. It’s time-consuming, but this is the mathematics-learning method with which I succeeded before.
Calculus makes me shake my head. It makes me realize again how weird and unphysical the real numbers are, never mind the complex and hyperreal numbers. I’ll study for an hour or two then find I am daydreaming about Zeno’s paradox. The real numbers seem like a convenient fiction, yet they are somehow (like pi and e) bound up in the very structure of space and number. [shakes head vigorously]
Wish me luck! Or rather, wish me patience.
