Today was a strange day all around. Starting off in algebra we talked about cyclic groups for a short period of time and then moved on to quotient groups all of which was really interesting, but the professor started randomly calling on people to answer questions which was strange. Then when we got to a point in the class where there was about 5 minutes left he asked the time and when told responded, “Good I’ve got 15 minutes left.” He normally lectures until the next class kicks him out, but for some reason I found this to be funny.
Then in combinatorics where I thought we were going to start the inclusion/exclusion chapter he lectured about Sperner’s Theorem and Dilworth’s Theorem which made out for a pretty cool lecture. Not test scores back yet, but he promised them for tomorrow.
Analysis wasn’t strange, but I am starting to freak out about the test on Wednesday. My main concern is that pretty much all of the proofs involving limits of sequences seem to involve some sort of trick and if you don’t get the trick you are pretty much left without much to do. The last homework I was able to show a sequence was bounded below and what the limit was if it existed, but I couldn’t show that it was bounded above and that it was monotone. I know the test problems are going to be less complex than the homework, but I also know that we only get 48 minutes on the test.