Well winter quarter is officially over and I have a week off before heading into spring quarter. Number theory is the class that I am the most excited for, but I’ve already purchased the book for the class and I think I am going to end up being disappointed. A large amount of the book is devoted to “How to structure proofs.” Umm…I thought that was what the Foundations of Higher Mathematics course was for. The course description seems to suggest that we would learn about algebraic methods in number theory, but the book doesn’t seem to mention algebraic structures at all. Plus the optional topic in the course description that I was most interested in was elliptic curves and once again the book doesn’t mention elliptic curves at all…well there is a short section on the history of Fermat’s Last Theorem so I suppose I can’t say that there is no mention of elliptic curves. I hope I am wrong about this course and it turns out to be an interesting course, but I fear that we are going to spend nearly a month on material that was already covered in the foundations course.