ChapterZero

I am prepping for my functions of a real variable midterm next friday. So far, I’ve reviewed basic point-set topology and metric spaces, and the Baire Category Thm, but not to my satisfaction. This is a pain– I can read a lot of material in one day and understand it, but unless I see it over and over and over and …, I will forget it by the next day. So basically, I need to rereview every day– even doing hard problems that require me to understand the concepts doesn’t really help. It would, if I could do more than one every couple of days, but I don’t have the time for that.

I have left to review: compactness and local compactness, LCH spaces, advanced topological thms, the Hahn-Banach theorem and consequences, consequences of the Baire Category Thm, Stone-Weierstrass thms, all the different topologies on function spaces. Looks like I have no choice but to dedicate myself to math this weekend— I’m going to have fun!

I also have to finish up the color band recognition portion of our automated resistor sorting project. One of my group members is going to his graduate school orientation at Rice this weekend, so he left his laptop with me, and I’ll be using it to work on the Matlab code. That suits me just fine– before I had to come to school so I could have access to the Image processing toolbox, and have access to a moderately fast computer.

Also, I have to start writing my antennas lab paper on ‘Electromagnetic Biomedical imaging modalities’– basical an overview of X-ray CT and MRI technologies. I read about the basics of MRI during my spring ‘break’, and it seems like I’ll enjoy writing about it. I already know I’m going to enjoy writing about CT.

Oh, right. I have a linear algebra test on Tuesday also.