TOW Head Goes Before Heart

I used to make myself not to be intimidated by external factors. However, spending four years in a Jesuit university made me somehow trained to do the things I loathed...

I did theology and philosophy along with mathematics, right?

Sigh... and I still were required for take some courses... The thing you watch in the movie "A Beautiful Mind", where Nash (in movie) tells that "classes dull your minds"... Whether they do or not, if you don't take them, you fail... It's just a story in movies, and its setting is 1930's...

Anyway, despite of my euphoria doing algebra (over numerical anaysis), the current discussion is boring as it can be. I do answer questions from our lecturer, and I take down notes and read the reference texts, and tonight, I was able to solve the problem set...

One funny thing is that what I happened during my undergraduate days in theology/philosophy classes happened again. By brain seems to understand, but I can't understand by heart...

I do not know if it is used outside my circle of mathematicians here, but it's commonly understood what it means to be understood by heart...

I read a several pages on "action of group" and all I remember is that it works with cosets [my apologies for non-math dudes], and it's somehow related to the Cayley's theorem. Plus, I solved the problem set, and I am pretty sure I am correct, although I used my own sense to prove than using all the theorems covered the topic...

Similar thing happened when I read the numerical analysis texts. I had to read half of the each books, to get ready for an exam to come up...It's only one of two exams, I should do well, and I am so relaxed EVEN when I didn't understand by heart. I still was able to solve by brain, and this gives me confidence... I did not have trouble except with some calculus formulas [which is my ever-weakness], so I am not that diffident...

Moreover, I did all these things WHILE reading the Newsweek, from cover to cover...

Sigh... my concentration is surely messed up... but I just know that all I have to do is make a list of theorems and formulas, and derive the proofs and formulations in head, and review them once before my exam, as it always have been my method of preparation...

Someday, I might mess up something, but so far, it's easy by brain, though hard by heart...

PS: Yeah...I have to review syntax in Mathematica for possible impromptu programming, but...haha...I laugh on this issue...