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It's nothing like having a great set of lecture notes in mathematics. If the written notes for a course are good, things make sense, if there are no notes, you usually only take the course if the lecturer writes really good notes on the board. There is no point learning mathematics if the notes themselves make no sense, we might as well just memorize formulae if we are not supposed to understand why it works. Granted, this is obvious, but for some reason it is not to some of the very people teaching us at Warwick.
The Fourier Analysis lecturer lulled us into a false state of appreciation by handing out great notes, and telling us that he was roughly going to follow them. It would have been good to know that when he said follow, he meant butcher. It was covered in such a way that we were actually reading the notes instead of listening to that douche while we were there because of his checkbox approach to proofs that he presumably patented. Seriously, no mathematician puts a question mark down for then later to replace it with a check after thinking a sketch proof out loud.
The result is that the bits he covered himself (in the same style) we have no real proof or any justification for anything except wikipedian glory. The last three weeks were roughly all him, and therein lie a dense paper that he covered - as one might use that word ? and now he expects us to possibly write an essay on in the exam instead of one of the other questions. Ha.
If you had had the fucking decency to follow the canonical definition-theorem style presentation of your course, the bits we actually had to learn primarily from you would not eat up more time than it took for me to write this post and we would be cool. But you had to infringe on my zombie killing time online, by making me frustrated enough to write this, and making me further develop my zombie killing inclination to cover the realm of the non-undead. Fuck your essay and your last three weeks.
The worst thing? It is actually a good idea, and I really like the general content of the course. Unfortunately, this guy saw convolution on the syllabus and made it a goddamned mission.
two more weeks will go by fast. two more will go by fast. two more weeks will go by fast.
