I don't know what I focused on, haha-- I wished I didn't do EE, frankly. The electives that I took within the department: physical principles of semiconductor devices, electrical energy conversions, autocontrol theory, control system design, telecom, and power electronics. So I guess circuits mostly, but I didn't take a few key courses there such as microelectronics processing and fabrication, and pulse/timed circuits.

For tech electives I went with complex analysis and partial differential eqns. The most appealing part about E.E. to me was the nifty math.

Where do you stand with regards to the philosophy of mathematics?

23 credits!? Uggghhhh. I don't think I even made it past 18 credits/semester without dropping courses midway through. What are you studying? Computer Science, math, philosophy or some combination would be my guess.

So it looks like you are mostly a combination of formalism and realism. I have mixed feelings on the philosophy of math. I used to just think that it had to be some form of platonism or in a stronger form some sort of pythagoreanism, but lately it seems I've become more nominalistic and more subjectivist about it, so I side more with intuitionism, conceptualism, and constructionism, granting that some admission for formalism has to be made in practice. It is unclear to me how the abstract and aspatiotemporally located entities could have causal efficiacy over the concrete and the physical. In other words how is that we come to know about about things which have no location in the universe in which we live, especially if we were to reject the dualism of mental and the physical? Its such a subtle and complex area. In any event I just have to read and think more about it in the future.

Neat, computer science seems interesting, but admittedly programming is one of my weaker areas. I've just had a handful of courses in the area of programming -- intro to FORTRAN, and C++, and a bit of MATLAB. I keep telling myself that I'm going to go back and work on it, but I never get around to it. Right now I'm learning the LaTeX document preparation system for entertainment, and am finding it quite nice. Perhaps after this I'll go onto HTML and make myself a webpage.

Now how about neuroscience-- can you recommend any reading materials in that area?

What of logic, what materials would you recommend in that area?

I have no idea if you celebrate any holiday this week or not, but I hope you managed to at least get a long and enjoyable weekend out of it.