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Madelaine Elimae, born 8/8/07
Two years old!
Charlotte Roseanna, born 8/2/09
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Our family of four!
About Me
- Neb
- I am a retired mathematics graduate student, a craver of beauty, a suitor of wisdom, a lunatic with reason; a poet without verse, writer-want-to-be, musician-wish-I-were, symmetry-loving seeker of the abstract, the elegant, the transcendent, the divine. I love my babies and my husband, good coffee, late night talks with long (and never)-lost friends, watching the sun set from my disheveled balcony, tulips, Rich Mullins, Bob Dylan, U2, Brancusi, Picasso, Chaim Potok, C.S. Lewis, T.S. Eliot, designing and not finishing quilts, vacuuming, and Peace.
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Madelaine Elimae, born 8/8/07
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Charlotte Roseanna, born 8/2/09
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9 comments:
Congratulations, Neb!
I never thought you'd successfully make it through this day.
Once you get your report card, we'll talk...
HNEB
You did a good job this year, Neb. Enjoy your summer break!
-Hortpo (Honest Objective Realistic Third-Party Observer)
I'm sure you'll find plenty of things to occupy your mind with this summer so that you achieve that Perfect Balance of Boredom and Busyness, right?
-Imhhy (Inner Mental Health Hypochondriac-y)
Yes, your solution of 3(b) was not only correct but also quite original, I
was impressed. You scored 86 on the final. Best wishes to you, too.
-Professor Random Processes
(I just want to note, the above comment from Prof. RP was the actual verbatim text of the final email he sent to me, so it's kind of like he REALLY DID comment on my blog, see...? Only he signed his first name, not "Professor Random Processes.")
Nancy Elizabeth,
Your study of mathematics this semester was thorough and precise, and your performance on the Final Examination was excellent. Best wishes for a wonderful summer.
Cordially,
Professor Complex Analysis
P.S. Did I tell you about the Bernstein Polynomials...?
Nancy,
A few of your responses on the final were a bit odd. For example, problem three said to prove Turan's Theorem, and your response was: "I will gladly state Turan's Theorem, but I will not prove it, because I feel that the mathematics of the twentieth century has moved so far *beyond* needing to prove things. The "proving" paradigm is really so modernist, and as we all know, we have been in the *postmodernist* era for some time now. All the cool people know, stating is the new proving. Your demand for rote memorization is so draining of the psychomathematical Aura that empowers all of my mathematical endeavors. I do not need to PROVE Turan's Theorem; I have faith in its truth, and that faith is sufficient to move forward. To look to the future of twenty-first century mathematics, we must abandon these outdated ways of knowing that hinder the expansive possibilities of our experiential horizons."
What exactly did you mean by that?
And on problem seven, which asked you to prove the EKR Theorem using the Kruskal-Katona Theorem, you responded, "As proven in class,..." and then drew a large, non-descript oval with several lines going through it and lots of tiny, indecipherable letters labeling everything.
You weren't trying to make some kind of statement with that, were you...?
-Professor Cowboy
Wow, Neb, I didn't know you had so many friends!!
Isn't it nice that so many people left comments congratulating you on finishing the school year? It's great that you got so many comments on this post!
-HNEB
Scary. Very. Scary.
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