Minor delays
Our institute is about to move to a new location. We all have to pack our books and papers into crates to be taken to the new building, where we will unpack them again (if they arrive intact, or at all). Of course that means going through old files deciding if they should be packed to move or just thrown out. Occasionally you come across something that can actually be dealt with (it’s probably late, but better late than thrown out, you might think).
Today the internal post brought me the last two homeworks from an Axiomatic Set Theory course I completed in 2004.
(Ah, nostalgia. “The idea for this construction is due to Alex Ma. The messy details and confused notation are entirely my own.”)
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COSC here will be going through the same process, starting some time in May. I'm hoping later in May because I don't want to have to spend a couple of days moving, and then spend two days working in the new place until I submit.
Sponts: That beer theory ain't cheery. Might have to give up for the final dissertatory effort...
Robin: That's pretty much my problem too. I'll get three months in the new building, but (a) it's a cubicle farm, (b) new network admins means I might not keep all my lovely rights, (c) according to Olga somebody else's name is on what's supposed to be my door. I'm not looking forward to it...
Ah, you're making me misty-eyed for Abstract Set Theory now; my tutor's corrections to my work would occasionally involve applying my reasoning to real-world sets, and demonstrating that I had shown that all cabbages were purple and sentient, or something similarly ludicrous.
In 2001 I could prove the Schröder-Bernstein theorem in 10½ minutes from a standing start. Just now I had to run to MathWorld to remember what it states. I blame the beer.