"So I'm going to start at the beginning, which is Noetherian rings."

[sniffnoy]

Today: first day of Diffey Queues, which Wai Lee is in. Also, Nic's name is now "Class".

Also first day of the second quarter of Algebra, which Nori is teaching. I came back to Tufts a bit past 3 which prompted Peter to ask if Nori went over, but in fact since Nori is going to be away on a few days, he's doing several 3/2-hour classes, of which today was one.

Apparently we're going to be doing lots of commutative algebra. We started today with basic Noetherianness stuff and the Hilbert Basis Theorem. Tomorrow apparently associated primes?

...I'm glad my other classes will probably be easy and that I have little left to do wrt grad school apps...

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Unrelatedly, probably not the best medium for this, but does anyone know anything about Shuo's supposed visit today? I know nothing.

-Harry

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[sake-na-na-na.livejournal.com]

Shuo is currently MIA. I've called her and left a message, but nothing has been heard.

/shrug

She'll turn up eventually I'm sure.

[sivakrytos.livejournal.com]

What actually prompted me to ask if Nori went over was that last year's 1st year math grads had a "Nori Counter" on the board in their office at the end of the year (and also a "May Counter"), which stood for the number of minutes Nori (resp. May) went over in class. IIRC, the Nori counter was 201, and May's was well over 300.

[sniffnoy.livejournal.com]

Well, I assumed that figured into it. But I guess you had no way of knowing when my class was supposed to end...

[sivakrytos.livejournal.com]

I guess I assumed it would end when time schedules says it would, as it did last quarter.