As you can see by the countdown ticker on the sidebar... we have 200 days until May 14th! Graduation! AHHHHHHHH!
Well, its not that bad.
I have been a little freaked out this week because of the unfinished state of my math senior project (aka my comp). I had not planned on studying complex topology at the beginning of the semester and if you know anything about mathematics, complex topology is not the easiest advanced mathematical branch out there. The topic has the nice and unassuming title of Escher's Complex Twist and basically is looking at the mathematics behind this picture:
The paper I am working off of has this great site with lots of pretty pictures:
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For those of you who do know something about mathematics, my goal is to be able to explain the following two definitions and show how they can help create the picture from a basic straight picture.
If E is a simply connected space, and if p mapping E to B is a covering map,
then we say that E is a universal covering space of B.
And
Let p map E to B. If f is a continuous mapping of some space X
into B, a lifting of f is a map f' mapping X to E such that p composed with f '= f.
Lots of fun! But seriously, I am looking forward to graduation even if it means meeting the unknown of what comes after an undergrad education.
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