"The title is the same as that of a very well-known book by Professor
L. E. Dickson (with which ours has little in common). We proposed
at one time to change it to 'An introduction to arithmetic', a more novel
and in some ways a more appropriate title; but it was pointed out that
this might lead to misunderstandings about the content of the book."
G.H. Hardy and E. M. Wright "An Introduction to the Theory of Numbers"
from a Phd maths guy, who's worked in satellite comms, and blogs on software defined radio and comms protocols (eg error correction and radio modulation, often in space related contexts, eg decoding Voyager comms).
My alma mater (University of Nottingham UK) has just stopped all music and modern language teaching, which (for a very popular, respected, large campus institution) seems a bad sign for universities generally.
And that's with all the foreign student bonanza money. My inlaws live in Notts and all they see getting built is student blocks. Imagine what'll happen when the next government drastically limits student visas.
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