Saturday, 18 October 2014

week # 6

We have a long weekend  as Monday is a thanksgiving day, so we only have two lectures  and no tutorials this week. Personally I think the work in this week is much easier than that in previous weeks. And we are continuing on proof of different types of problems including the proof of non-boolean functions and limits as well as the proof of something false. Since we've already learned how to write the outline of a good proof on last week, it's not  as confused as I thought at the time in which I learned proving in MAT137. It's really helpful for me when the professor taught us the proof about limits with an example of asking us to proof the definition of the functions which is exactly the same as what I learned during MAT137 lectures. In fact, I've been frustrated and confused about those kind of questions for a long time and eventually, I chose to totally memorize them instead of understanding them. However, I got really excited when I saw this proof in165 lecture on Friday using the different way of thinking but the same solution. As a result,  I'm not as confused as before, and I even wanna go back to do all the questions that I didn't get one more time using the method I was learned in 165.

The following graph is a typical graph to illustrate the definition of limit:


1 comment:

  1. Even though we're only presenting several ways of thinking about problems, you're always free to do it your way! If the method we're teaching doesn't really quite make sense, do it the way it makes sense to you. In fact, I would suggest you find some problems online—either from the site Prof. Heap suggested, or from elsewhere—and solve them here in a way that makes the most sense to you. You will never be penalised for that, so please don't feel like you must memorise something to do well in the course.

    Good luck!

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