Things That Made Me Study Science And Maths (mostly Good Books)

Things that made me study science and maths (mostly good books)

·       A picture in yuval noah harari’s book, ‘Homo Deus’

·       A picture in the ‘Brief History of Time’

·       The word ‘epoch’

·       The book, ‘A Brief History of Everything’

·       A superb book called Number devil

·       A college level physics textbook called, ‘Conceptual physics’

·       A book called ‘We have no idea’

·       My school maths textbook(s)

·       The software Desmos

·       My poetic disposition

 Things that still dissuade me from studying science and maths (in no particular order)

·       The essay ‘A mathematician’s apology’

·       The competition

·       The hype about this place <insert name of popular institution/college>

·       My physics and maths TEACHERS

·       My school physics textbook

·       Guys who pretend they know everything

·       Guys who know everything

·       Biographies of genius mathematicians and physicists

·       Imposter syndrome

·       My inability to crunch big numbers

Everytime i write

f is homo  (short for homomorphism)

Or

f is bi (short for bijective)

f here being a function between two sets.

My heart does a little dance.

I am like, homie me too.

So I just finished reading The Heir, since I had an evening to burn (shouldn’t have done that shouldn’t have done that shouldn’t have). Much later in the story I realized, that the pace at which the plot was moving.... the story wouldn’t end with the book. And the horrible idea dawned on me, that this thing-in-my-hands had a sequel. Absolutely unfair. 

I am wondering now how I ended up here. I had read the America/ Maxon (that was what they were called right?) trilogy almost 3 years back and never liked it. But sometimes you like to be in the middle of a story instead of right in the beginning.... its comforting there. 

Also I was toying with this idea for a while that in romance novels/ dramas its always clear from the get go who she is going to end up with. That makes existence of the other suitors pointless. So if there were a story that didn’t really point out explicitly, who’s the hero.... that would make a romance novel read like a suspenseful who-dun-it’. There was the crime in the beginning of the story that she will fall in love and all the suspects. Now you can bet on who you think is most likely. And the author here, does a really great job, I think, of making each of the suitors seem equally likely in the story.

I am betting on the translator. I don’t know why. Maybe because I love languages. Surely not due to any of his own merit. But then again the fact that he is being highlighted so much might be suspicious.

side note- when I was reading that scene where all the 35 suitors are introduced to Eadlyn (not a great name in my opinion), I was like come on, one of them should be gay. That would have been a good twist. But it didn’t turn out that way.

I can see that they really watered down all the political intrigue as compared to the previous series, and I sorely missed that. They watered down everything in this book, it seems.

the only thing i have in common with Henry Winter... is his migraine.

When you realize that you’ve read the words, “attracted”, “bonded”, “philic” more times in your Chemistry textbook, than in any romance novel.

Reflecting on a book about the Himalayas