OK, todays incoming read is Functional Analysis by Reisz and Nagy. I've been meaning to get hold of this for some time. Its a cracking read, quite easy to skim, and inspiring in the credentials of at least one of the authors that I've heard of previously. There's a repetetive logic to the topic of Analysis that is beginning to unfold.
I've also been refreshing some of the theory behind Monte Carlo simulation. Its odd how such seemingly difficult mathematics results in a so few lines of codes.
Also, started the day with concepts from HAF - namely relations, ordering, partially ordered, posets, wosets and co.
These objects are beginning to come to life and interelations starting to appear.
Outgoing read is 'Naked Olympics'. Its a popular historical book about some of the facts behind how the ancient Olympics were held. I was horrified to read about the conditions at Olympia as 40 thousand sports fans crammed into the stadium and its surrounding grounds in the hottest filthiest conditions imaginable. The nearby river almost dried up in the summer heat was used as a communal toilet. Dead animals used in sacrifice were dumped in holes and left to rot in the heat. Waste was disposed of willy-nilly. Sweaty men who didnt take baths (there was no water anyhow) would stand in the burning sun till large numbers dropped from heat exhaustion.
And yet they kept on coming for over a thousand years!
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