Okay, I did much better than I had imagined. I really felt that I had made a meal of the number theory paper; but after a last ditched attempt at two of the questions that I messed up; it all came good in the end.
So, here are the results:
Number Theory and Logic - 97%
Groups and Geometry - 98%.
In what has become a bit of a tradition for me, over the last 4yrs - I am now off down the pub for a celebratory pint of Bishops Finger.
Oohh Matron!
Saturday 8 February 2014
Monday 3 February 2014
TMA's away, on time!
Just a quicky!
Both TMA's for M381 and M336 have now been completed and chucked in the post. They arrived on the cut off date, with my tutor, so I await the results...
The Number Theory TMA was a nightmare and I spent far to much time on it. Having said that, I did finally manage to put together some sort of coherent answer for each question, so I am in a better place than I was two weeks ago.
The Groups and Geometry TMA was typical O.U fare, with four large questions, one on each block of work. Going to the tutorial really helped, as I had made a couple of mistakes in my TMA, through a 'clanger' of a misunderstanding in the material 'counting with groups'.
I have now stepped up another gear, and in the last week I have completed the unit that uses formal logic language, to construct formulas and tautologies. I found that very enjoyable, as it is right up my street - all that coding of symbols and working out truth tables, appeals to my twisted brain. I have also managed to complete, in full, the TMA questions for this unit, already.
If the rest of the logic books are of a similar nature, then I will be very happy, indeed.
I won't talk about Unit GR3, Decomposition of Abelian groups as, well, it's a bit of a car-crash. I knew I was going to have trouble, when I opened the book and had to go back to the earlier units and my glossary, to remember what the terms, 'word' and 'free group' meant, in the context of Abelian groups.
I am moving through this book at a snails pace, not really understanding it, globally. All I can do is rote learn the Theorems and some examples, and hope it starts to make sense, by next week.
ps: for those of you on the Groups course, you may have noticed that I am about 2 weeks behind on my schedule, too...
Oh the joys of concatenation, reduction, generators and quotients!
Both TMA's for M381 and M336 have now been completed and chucked in the post. They arrived on the cut off date, with my tutor, so I await the results...
The Number Theory TMA was a nightmare and I spent far to much time on it. Having said that, I did finally manage to put together some sort of coherent answer for each question, so I am in a better place than I was two weeks ago.
The Groups and Geometry TMA was typical O.U fare, with four large questions, one on each block of work. Going to the tutorial really helped, as I had made a couple of mistakes in my TMA, through a 'clanger' of a misunderstanding in the material 'counting with groups'.
I have now stepped up another gear, and in the last week I have completed the unit that uses formal logic language, to construct formulas and tautologies. I found that very enjoyable, as it is right up my street - all that coding of symbols and working out truth tables, appeals to my twisted brain. I have also managed to complete, in full, the TMA questions for this unit, already.
If the rest of the logic books are of a similar nature, then I will be very happy, indeed.
I won't talk about Unit GR3, Decomposition of Abelian groups as, well, it's a bit of a car-crash. I knew I was going to have trouble, when I opened the book and had to go back to the earlier units and my glossary, to remember what the terms, 'word' and 'free group' meant, in the context of Abelian groups.
I am moving through this book at a snails pace, not really understanding it, globally. All I can do is rote learn the Theorems and some examples, and hope it starts to make sense, by next week.
ps: for those of you on the Groups course, you may have noticed that I am about 2 weeks behind on my schedule, too...
Oh the joys of concatenation, reduction, generators and quotients!
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