{"id":71,"date":"2015-08-20T08:14:22","date_gmt":"2015-08-20T08:14:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adrianbell.me\/?p=71"},"modified":"2015-08-20T13:28:22","modified_gmt":"2015-08-20T13:28:22","slug":"the-maths-club","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/adrianbell.me\/?p=71","title":{"rendered":"The Maths Club"},"content":{"rendered":"

After my first year, I had a look at the clubs and societies you could join as a member of the OU. I thought it would help me feel a little less like I was learning so remotely. Sure enough, there was a mathematics club, M500<\/a>.<\/p>\n

A nice little bonus that you get for being a member is a discount for the bi-annual revision sessions that are held by the mathematics faculty at the OU. So when I started my last module, I signed up for a revision weekend that was arranged to be held\u00a0about a month before my exam.<\/p>\n

It was great meeting other students. With all that remote learning, it was great to be reminded that you weren't alone. We even had nightly trips to the pub! Just like a physical university!!!<\/p>\n

Towards the end of the weekend, one of my fellow students, studying the same module as me, mentioned a book that he'd recently ordered.\u00a0 It was written by David Brannan, a man apparently partially responsible for the syllabus of our first double-credit module in our second stage, and wrote the book to reflect the content of that module. My classmate thought he buy it to give him a bit of an edge when he finally started the monster-module. In our class he gave everyone the details. The book is called A First Course in Mathematical Analysis<\/a>, and at over 450 pages, it looks like one serious introduction!<\/p>\n

\"aFirstCourseInMathematicalAnalysis\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Finding out about this book couldn't have been any more perfect. It means I can start my easy introductory module this year, and read through my new book on analysis so I'm ahead of the game for when my double-credit module starts in 2016! Perfecto.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After my first year, I had a look at the clubs and societies you could join as a member of the OU. I thought it would help me feel a little less like I was learning so remotely. Sure enough, there was a mathematics club, M500. A nice little bonus that you get for being … Continue reading The Maths Club<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,6,2,8],"tags":[19,5,20],"class_list":["post-71","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-analysis","category-books","category-maths","category-text-books","tag-analysis","tag-maths","tag-text-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/adrianbell.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/adrianbell.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/adrianbell.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/adrianbell.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/adrianbell.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=71"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/adrianbell.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78,"href":"http:\/\/adrianbell.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71\/revisions\/78"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/adrianbell.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/adrianbell.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/adrianbell.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}