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A Good Day
Oct. 15th, 2012 07:36 pmI went in early and stayed later than I'd intended, but I actually got some things done today.
I reviewed and red-inked a Senior Project (someone else is the director, but I'm on the committee) on voting theory - pretty interesting stuff, and a good bit of it appears to be original. I did this just in time, as the director dropped by to see if I'd attended to it yet. I went over the things I was bothered by; he'll bring the student in and get those problems (and the ones identified by W, who is the third member of the committee) taken care of.
There are some technical problems with the prisms paper. It's written in TeX, but not directly - I use the Scientific WorkPlace interface. Unfortunately, SWP speaks a slightly different dialect of TeX than the Moscow Mathematical Journal, and this is causing problems integrating the diagrams into the text. I downloaded a pure TeX editor and made some modifications which might help; if they don't, I'll have to think long and hard.
And, unexpectedly, I found time to work on the prisms problem again. Mostly I just tinkered today, making the visual representation easier to see and fiddling with the algorithms some more. But I did learn a thing or two in the process. Now, to make my experimenting a little more systematic....
Tomorrow I have classes, so I probably won't have time to mess around any more; Wednesday may be more productive.
I reviewed and red-inked a Senior Project (someone else is the director, but I'm on the committee) on voting theory - pretty interesting stuff, and a good bit of it appears to be original. I did this just in time, as the director dropped by to see if I'd attended to it yet. I went over the things I was bothered by; he'll bring the student in and get those problems (and the ones identified by W, who is the third member of the committee) taken care of.
There are some technical problems with the prisms paper. It's written in TeX, but not directly - I use the Scientific WorkPlace interface. Unfortunately, SWP speaks a slightly different dialect of TeX than the Moscow Mathematical Journal, and this is causing problems integrating the diagrams into the text. I downloaded a pure TeX editor and made some modifications which might help; if they don't, I'll have to think long and hard.
And, unexpectedly, I found time to work on the prisms problem again. Mostly I just tinkered today, making the visual representation easier to see and fiddling with the algorithms some more. But I did learn a thing or two in the process. Now, to make my experimenting a little more systematic....
Tomorrow I have classes, so I probably won't have time to mess around any more; Wednesday may be more productive.
