This blog is hereby created at the date available around this post, inspired by my roommate and my friend Jim, to record the results of a project I hereby embark upon: To study the nature of things.
Nowadays many people write blogs to voice their opinions. For the time being, my aim is more modest: I will post my naive impressions about the things I study, with the hope that along the process I will be forced to clarify my thoughts, and I will be able to look back upon and trace the genealogy of their developments.
Thus, the posts are not opinions, but merely thoughts, to which I have no particular attachment to and are subject to elaboration, rejection, silence, and ridicule.
I am currently an undergraduate student, supposedly studying mathematics, but I have had neither the discipline, nor the motivation necessary to reach an understanding of it. The blog, (again inspired by Jim) will hopefully help remedy the situation.
Although to reach an understanding of the nature of things one must not only study many a subject, but be an active participant of life fully - one still has to start somewhere, and I decided to start by studying the following two texts:
Calculus by Michael Spivak
The Theory of Sets by Nicolas Bourbaki
of which the first is a theory of change, and the second a widely used foundation of mathematics. More on these later.
All readers are welcome to join me on this journey, and help me to accomplish a personal renaissance.
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