Another shipment has arrived

My second shipment for the books I've order on Amazon has arrived.
This is book 3 out of the 3 books I ordered.
The other 2 books were shipped out earlier.
The book came in a cupboard cardboard wrap form since it was just one book.
It was quite interesting to see how the books are being shipped to my house from US.

My book wrapped in a cupboard cardboard envelope.

Behind the parcel, I'm suppose to tear the tab to open.
(I shot this after I tore it.)
Pull tab to open.

The book is nicely kepy in place within the perfect fit of the cupboard cardboard envelope.

Book 3: Intro. to Analytic and Probabilistic Number Theory by Gerald Tenenbaum.

The hardcover book is the glossy cover which all the hardcover books now are.
The one I borrowed from the library was an old copy (i think).
Thought it is also hardcover, but the material was more cloth-like kind.
It's nice to hold and has those old book kind of sound.
hahaha...

More number theory to come,
Peiyan

Mugging

Its the most stress period of the semester.
Exam time!!!!
As usual for this year, I ask for permission to study in the NUSPS darkroom.
I've only got 3 papers to sit for and the dates are rather spread out, allowing me to concentrate on one module each time.

And so,the hardworking me, trying to do well in Number Theory, found a few useful books in the library and borrowed them, 2 of which were renewed books.
And now I renew all the borrowed books again as the due date was 2 days before my paper.
*sheeze*

The top 4 books are for MA4263: Intro to Analytic Number Theory
While the green book at the bottom is for MA3215: Differential Geometry

All nicely stacked up.

Book call number.
(is that what you call them? I can't remember)

Number Theory!!!

Hoping to ace the Number Theory paper,

Peiyan

Joyous delight

I reached home to find a delight on my table.
My orders from Amazon has arrived early.
Maybe it's the indication that they want me to do well in the Number Theory paper.
I order 2 books on Number Theory out of which, 2 were shipped out first.
From the status at Amazon, it's stated that the shipment will arrive sometime in mid May, which by that time, my exams have ended long ago.
So I thought that I'll get the book as my further reading purpose on my new interest in Number Theory.

But the parcel on my table brought joy for my Number Theory paper coming in 5 days' time.

Very light box to my surprise on my table.

Here it goes... I'm opening it.

Ta-da!!!

Wrapped together to prevent damages.

Book 1: Introduction to Analytic Number Theory by Tom M. Apostol

Book 2.

The second book is too difficult for me to understand.
But nevermind, I shall try to understand it one day.

Yippee and enjoying Number Theory,

Peiyan

Now this looks familar

Saw this at the entrance section of Borders where they display the books on promotion.
Doesn't the title sounds familar?

Hmmmmmmmmmmm,

Peiyan

I'm in the Rubik's craze too

Suddenly, I'm interested in learning how to play rubik's cube.
hahaha
I've seen this thing when I was young.
My grandmother house got one and I don't even knew how to play it back then.
All i knew was that I can turn the things around and jumble the colors up.
And suddenly, you start hearing on the news how fast people can the cube

There are a few kind of Rubik's cube: (that i know of)
2x2
3x3
4x4
5x5

The more commonly used one will be the 3x3 cube.
The pros will know about 200+ methods to solve the cube.
Me?
Only 1, and it's the free step by step guide I got from Toys-R-Us, where I bought by cube.

And my Prof. happened to tell me that he can solve the 5x5 cube and so does his daughter (still a primary school student).

Trying to learn more methods,

Peiyan