Our course in Linear algebra has been very interesting so far with a new world of mathematics unfolding in front of us. The last lecture dealt with vector spaces and subspaces. The abstraction of polynomials that we just started with this morning seems to be a very powerful way of attacking the problem of solving polynomials.

Yesterday we had the test of German strong verbs. The test was a lot easier and less complicated than what we believed, it was all over in fifteen minutes and not two hours. Either way I got some neccessary repetition of the verbs and now I am a lot more confident using them. After the test we starting going through conjunctions and how they differ from their Swedish counterparts. Swedish is quite similar to the German language when it comes to grammatical constructions, but you have to be careful when it comes to conjunctions. The German language is more precise and therefore requires some more learning.

I have a lot of German studying to do. I really want to improve this mother tongue of mine from the time I lived in Switzerland. Grammar is where I am really lacking, so these formal studies are just what I need. I will hopefully spend the year 2009/2010 in Switzerland at the ETH in Zürich studying natural science.