{"id":424,"date":"2008-02-03T13:08:33","date_gmt":"2008-02-03T13:08:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.canicula.com\/wp\/?p=424"},"modified":"2008-02-03T13:08:33","modified_gmt":"2008-02-03T13:08:33","slug":"mathematics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canicula.com\/wp\/mathematics\/","title":{"rendered":"Mathematics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not very good at mathematics. I don&#8217;t mean standard stuff such as adding, subtracting etc. No, I mean the more abstract stuff like trigonometry, algebra and, especially, calculus. In order to really understand the science behind the current models of the Universe (<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/General_Relativity\" title=\"GR at Wikipedia\" target=\"_blank\">General Relativity<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Quantum_Mechanics\" title=\"QM on Wikipedia\" target=\"_blank\">Quantum Mechanics<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/String_Theory\" title=\"ST on Wikipedia\" target=\"_blank\">String Theory<\/a>) you need to be able to understand the math. I don&#8217;t and I need to rectify that. So I&#8217;m going to start taking a series of <a href=\"http:\/\/www3.open.ac.uk\/courses\/classifications\/mathematics_and_statistics.shtm\" title=\"Math &amp; Stats at the OU\" target=\"_blank\">Open University mathematics courses<\/a> later this year. The initial courses will be:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www3.open.ac.uk\/courses\/bin\/p12.dll?C01MU120\" title=\"M120 course at OU\" target=\"_blank\">Open mathematics<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www3.open.ac.uk\/courses\/bin\/p12.dll?C01MST121\" title=\"MST121 at OU\" target=\"_blank\">Using mathematics<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www3.open.ac.uk\/courses\/bin\/p12.dll?C01MS221\" title=\"MS221 course at OU\" target=\"_blank\">Exploring mathematics<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www3.open.ac.uk\/courses\/bin\/p12.dll?C01MST209\" title=\"MST209 course at OU\" target=\"_blank\">Mathematical methods and models<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www3.open.ac.uk\/courses\/bin\/p12.dll?C01MSXR209\" title=\"MSXR209 course at OU\" target=\"_blank\">Mathematical modelling<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>After doing those I&#8217;ll decide whether to continue with <a href=\"http:\/\/www3.open.ac.uk\/courses\/bin\/p12.dll?Q01B31\" title=\"Math degree at the OU\" target=\"_blank\">pure mathematics<\/a> courses or go down the <a href=\"http:\/\/www3.open.ac.uk\/courses\/bin\/p12.dll?Q01B27\" title=\"Physical Science at the OU\" target=\"_blank\">physical sciences<\/a> route.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not very good at mathematics. I don&#8217;t mean standard stuff such as adding, subtracting etc. No, I mean the more abstract stuff like trigonometry, algebra and, especially, calculus. In order to really understand the science behind the current models of the Universe (General Relativity, Quantum Mechanics, String Theory) you need to be able to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-aside","hentry","category-gen","category-science","post_format-post-format-aside"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canicula.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canicula.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canicula.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canicula.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canicula.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canicula.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canicula.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canicula.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canicula.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}