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posted by CoolHand on Tuesday April 07 2015, @03:58PM   Printer-friendly
from the I-can-really-learn-my-maths-and-sciences-now dept.

If you ever wanted to learn General Relativity, now here's your chance. The caveat is that first you must learn differential geometry. But it's not difficult, really. Only lots of hard work, but not difficult. I was attending this February such a course. This course is fully documented: there are recordings of all lectures, and of tutorials with solutions (also the .pdf files with practice questions). For easier access you can also visit the The WE-Heraeus International Winter School on Gravity and Light YouTube channel.

You should know though that this material on the internet is not everything we were doing there, the biggest omission are the advanced tutorials, which were done in groups and couldn't be filmed. Also their solutions were too difficult to be "quickly" filmed like the tutorials that have videos. However there's hope that advanced tutorials will also be put online some time later this year (as promised by the organizers). In that case I'll submit a follow up story.

I must tell you that attending this course was really a great experience, and Prof. F. P. Schuller is in fact on of the best lecturers I have ever met.

 
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  • (Score: 2) by maxwell demon on Tuesday April 07 2015, @06:03PM

    by maxwell demon (1608) on Tuesday April 07 2015, @06:03PM (#167512) Journal

    Well, I'd expect the "mathematical maturity" of typical readers of this site to be above average. At least if you exclude the trolls.

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  • (Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 07 2015, @07:00PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 07 2015, @07:00PM (#167541)

    Hey! We ACs must work bloody hard at math & science stuff so our trolling can look semi-plausible.

    • (Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 07 2015, @09:29PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 07 2015, @09:29PM (#167599)

      If we didn't, we'd ask for things like 7 non-intersecting, non-parallel red lines. [youtube.com]

      • (Score: 2) by hendrikboom on Thursday April 09 2015, @03:27PM

        by hendrikboom (1125) Subscriber Badge on Thursday April 09 2015, @03:27PM (#168369) Homepage Journal

        Without looking at the video (my computer's streaming video leaves a lot to be desired) I'd guess either hyperbolic geometry or three-dimensional geometry.

  • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 08 2015, @01:48AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 08 2015, @01:48AM (#167677)

    Yeah, you know, every now and then this kind of statement is made, but when you go and look at any hard science or maths stories that get posted, there aren't any real comments (if you exclude the same three or four people who do understand stuff like this) and zero discussion. All you get is the same, predictable "tech" jokes and puns.

    I know that when we form cliques, we tend to think of ourselves as better/smarter/whatever than "other" people, but that doesn't mean that it is true, and this usually leads to derogatory comments about the "stupid" public or "joe six-pack" that make us feel better.

    • (Score: 2) by khchung on Wednesday April 08 2015, @12:07PM

      by khchung (457) on Wednesday April 08 2015, @12:07PM (#167812)

      Too bad I ran out of mod points before seeing the parent comment.

      Yeah, it is the same in the green site. While a lot of posters claimed to be good at science and maths, but when you read what they wrote, it became obvious that most had no real understanding at all.