Away for a few days

[mumsisdaughter]

Going to York tomorrow, coming back on Friday. It's Jenn's birthday next week but she's off work this week so I'm going early to give her her birthday present and take them out for a meal.

This is her present:
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[iskra667.livejournal.com]

Thank you, it's sweet :) Sadly, my geek!boss does not, lol :) Sometimes, it pisses me off being a jack-of-all-trades in a specialist-biased world. I admire people who are brilliant at one thing, but jack-of-all-trades are useful too.

it can't do justice to the maths or the written word.

Indeed, it did not! It sounded verbose and obscure. And I do love interdisciplinary things when they create new perspectives, or make things clearer, but this book seemed to only create obscurity :)

It's cool that you loved maths enough to study it for fun :) To be honest, university maths is useless unless you're really really good at it. Otherwise you don't get it enough to do anything useful with it. But I still think medium level maths is very good, it teaches to think with subtlety but no flourishes, and I suppose all the more when you have to explain it back to other people!