A maths-y post
Mar. 4th, 2008 11:21 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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elerrina_amanya having finished the Project of Doooom this morning. She woke me up at ten to midnight last night to proofread it, so I was sitting in bed with the laptop on my duvet going "Binomials...zzzz....Pascal's Triangle...oh, yeah, remember that...."
She's just said, "Now I've finished with the numbers, let's have some Numb3rs." (which is on ITV3 on Mondays for us unfortunate right-pondians, about a million years after the Americans get it. Incidentally, if the government wants to stop illegal downloading, they should try working on the gap between American films/TV being shown in America and being shown here. Of course people are more likely to get something illegally if there's no way they can get it legally!)
BTW, it's a crime drama WITH MATHS if you've never run across it. We've been watching it a good bit lately. I'm kind of in love with the main character, Charlie Eppes. I don't know if they effect of 3 years of physics lectures going, 'Yeah, the concept's fine, can you just put all the intervening steps back into the maths so I can understand it?', but there's something exceedingly cool about being able to do maths really really well. Also there is a very nice family dynamic going on with Charlie, his brother the FBI agent and their dad. And it is rarely as traumatising as some other crime programmes I could mention. I am willing to overlook the implausibility that anyone, however intelligent, can be an expert in every form of mathematics known to humanity, and the fact that the mathematics department appears to only have three members of staff, none of whom actually seem to spend much time working for the university.
elerrina_amanya having finished the Project of Doooom this morning. She woke me up at ten to midnight last night to proofread it, so I was sitting in bed with the laptop on my duvet going "Binomials...zzzz....Pascal's Triangle...oh, yeah, remember that...."She's just said, "Now I've finished with the numbers, let's have some Numb3rs." (which is on ITV3 on Mondays for us unfortunate right-pondians, about a million years after the Americans get it. Incidentally, if the government wants to stop illegal downloading, they should try working on the gap between American films/TV being shown in America and being shown here. Of course people are more likely to get something illegally if there's no way they can get it legally!)
BTW, it's a crime drama WITH MATHS if you've never run across it. We've been watching it a good bit lately. I'm kind of in love with the main character, Charlie Eppes. I don't know if they effect of 3 years of physics lectures going, 'Yeah, the concept's fine, can you just put all the intervening steps back into the maths so I can understand it?', but there's something exceedingly cool about being able to do maths really really well. Also there is a very nice family dynamic going on with Charlie, his brother the FBI agent and their dad. And it is rarely as traumatising as some other crime programmes I could mention. I am willing to overlook the implausibility that anyone, however intelligent, can be an expert in every form of mathematics known to humanity, and the fact that the mathematics department appears to only have three members of staff, none of whom actually seem to spend much time working for the university.
