A lot has happened…
My last log was ends almost 1.5 years ago, at the beginning of my BSMS programme in IISER Mohali.
more articles:
- attending NIUS 19.1
- 4 years with electrodynamics
- inculcation
- math wiki v2
- semester 1
- moving to mohali
- summer ‘22, semester 2: reluctance to physics, primarily, shift to mathematics, majorly
- semester 3: lessons from MTH201
- winter ‘22: nius
- semester 4: lessons from MTH410, the lore of manifolds and higher
semester 1
The story doesn’t start here, not yet.
moving to mohali
This story actually starts on 16th April, ‘22.
reluctance to physics, primarily
In May ‘22, I started to say, jokingly, that I won’t take physics major because
- I will be bored because I’d know most of the content at least up to the first major year
- I will benefit more from mathematics major courses because eventually I am interested in theoretical physics
- I can teach the content in the physics major curriculum (to whoever wants to listen) and that will mean I will study and grasp the content either way
More I said this to my friends, more I went onto follow it. This was a very neieve ambition initially…
But one needs to consider the struggles I was having with phyics
- Statistical mechanics
shift to mathematics, majorly
I was interested in math from the fifth grade. This isn’t a story of how I shockingly discovered the crazy fancyness/use of the quadratic formula, or the definition or something. I was genuinely studying group theory in the first semester itself, without any though of its real applications also. (It really is very satisfying to study it, wish to get back to it this fall.)
What really struck me first was the construction of starting from . …
- Balakrishnan’s non-linear dynamics
- Balakrishnan’s quantum mechanics
- Fredrich Schuller’s two lectures
- a fluids talk
- total derivatives and differential forms
lessons from MTH201
- courses give discipline
- courses give confidence
- teaching people brought far more spike than I thought
- manifolds theory really unmotivated without Gaussian geometry of surfaces
- Geometry is so beautiful!!
the workshop was fun tho
lessons from MTH410, the lore of manifolds and higher
other stuff that I did
academic curiosity and inculcation
obsidian, wiki, workstation
how little increments help
<Arkish’s statement>
more stuff I wanna say
campus life
- the freedom just because you’re in a closed community