Wednesday, November 16, 2011

Section 5.3, Due November 18, 2011

1. What was the most difficult part of the reading for you?
I'm sure that you'd expect that I'd get lost at some point... so I'll just say when. I started getting lost during Theorem 5.3.3 (Mostly, I got confused about part (2). But, I'm assuming it's because I need to review that malarky.
After that, I got completely totally completely lost as they started bringing up the AKS algorithm. I mean.... what? It was so so so oh so confusing for me. I'm guessing (hoping) it's because it's so new and stuff. I mean... wow.

2. What was the most interesting part of the reading for you?
Though the part where I got lost made me want to cry, it also fascinated me that something that seems pretty important in the mathematical world has been proven post-2000. Not only that, but it even made it into this crazy book. So, I think that's cool and I want to know how much money that they made for deriving this algorithm.

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