The Lathe of Heaven

2007-02-13 04:35:00

I've just (yesterday) finished reading The Lathe of Heaven by Ursula K. Le Guin. It's a sci-fi novel about a man whose dreams have the power to change reality. It was enjoyable, but I found that it wasn't always clear just what was going on, and why (then again, this may have been intentional, since the main character also seemed confused). It was worth reading once, anyway.

As far as math is concerned: I've discovered that I hate category theory. It seems like it ought to be good for something, but I'm just not sure how it all works, or even what some of the terminology and notation means. I've still got one category theory book which I may try to read a bit more, but I've little motivation at this point.

I've got a test tomorrow in statistics, a class which I haven't been attending since the first week of the term. However, it's a very introductory course. The topics to be covered on the exam (as far as I can tell) are binomial distribution, normal distribution, and the prerequisite knowledge for these like mean, median, standard deviation, etc. I'll discover tomorrow whether my 'sleep now, study later' policy was a good idea.