Week Six: A Nothing Trend

Hey, not much to report.

Amidst interviews, socialising (heaven forbid) and a bastard of a cold, little progress has been made on anything. I concentrated on the Buss book as it launched into averaging and interpolation.

Today I spent a couple of hours working on some of the Buss book problems, because I felt the mathematics was passing in front of my eyes but not attaching itself to my brain. I spent too long on "affine combinations preserve affine transformations" simply because I was thinking in homogeneous co-ordinates and that meant everything looked like linear operators to me.

This, of course, probably means nothing to any reader, even those people that know exactly what affine combinations are. It gives me joy to provide you with such puzzling mysteries.