 Hi everyone, this is Chichou Yan and this is just a quick update regarding the language of mathematics. Now it's been about two months since I put up a video for the Math Series, for Series 3. So I figured it's about time I did a little update to let people know why there hasn't been anything coming up and what I plan to do and what's coming up. So what we've done so far is basically in Series 3 talked about the equal sign and initially I was going to make the series about the equal sign and units and try to mix those two together. And I started off with the equal sign, started off with what we're going to start off with and started going to solving equations and I sort of morphed it into graphing functions. So I sort of went down the function route. So I just wanted to let you know that Series 3 is not going to have the unit section in there. It's going to be basically the equal sign solving equations and functions of how to graph specifically polynomial functions. And it's going to be sort of a mediocre introduction to functions. I'm going to sort of morph it into towards that. And that's going to take me a while. We're about halfway through the series right now. We've talked about some factoring techniques. Some factoring is super important. Common factor is simple trinomial factoring. And just to let you know how much material is going to be coming up is we still have four more factorings to talk about. Two manual, two other manual factoring techniques which is the difference of squares and complex trinomial. And that would basically make it four factorings of manual techniques. And then we're going to talk about the quadratic formula a formula we use to factor quadratic formulas, polynomials with power of 2, right? And we use that for things that we can't factor manually which basically in real life situations you really can't factor things manually. And from there we're going to go into doing synthetic division. And synthetic division is used to find the factors, the x-intercepts, the roots of polynomials that are higher degree than the power of 2. So basically we're going to take one large polynomial and I'm not sure what its order is going to be. We've talked about order and stuff. I'm not sure what order is going to be. It's going to be five or six or something like this, right? So we're going to take that and graph that towards the end of the series. So that's where we are with series three right now. Which is we're basically halfway through and there's a lot more videos that I plan on doing. What's my timing on this? Now what I'm about to do is go on a serious sabbatical from my other work that I'm doing on the site on online basically any writing and stuff like this. So I'm basically putting my own website on hold. I'm going to go on a few sabbatical for a few months. And what I plan on doing on the sabbatical is setting up a website specifically to deal with the language of mathematics. So I'm going to transfer everything from my site to this new website which is basically just going to be dealing with mathematics. And the reason I'm doing this is because I want math to be standalone. I don't want the information I have on my site, my prejudices to interfere with anyone that wants to learn the language of mathematics. So I'm going to try to make it as biased as possible. Of course I'm teaching it. So there's going to be a little bit of me, or I guess there's a lot of me in the way I teach and what I'm teaching. But I'm going to try to reduce the biases and just expose people to how math works and how to use math for anyone that wants to learn math. So that's one reason that I'm going to create this website and transfer everything to this new website. I will probably still host this stuff on my site, but this new website is just going to be all math related. So during the sabbatical that I'm going to take off from my site, I'm going to set up this website specifically for math. The other thing I'm going to do is I'm going to set up another website which is going to mirror everything on the math website. Now my personal site, I'm going to start to create videos, have a table of contents and organize things maybe a little bit differently. And that's just really the first phase. I'm going to actually, it's planned out to, obviously I'm going to re-edit the stuff and put out a DVD. There's a lot of work involved with that. I'm going to create a membership and a forum and everything that goes into providing a space for anyone that wants to learn. High school mathematics from beginning to end. And that's where I'm going with this. I was asked what I plan to do with these math videos or how far I'm planning going down this road. And this was a few months ago. And my reply was basically, I'm going to try to cover all of high school mathematics including an introductory course on calculus. And my time frame for this right now, a few months ago, it's going to take me between five to ten years to do this. And that hasn't changed considering the pace that I'm going at right now. And there's a lot of information there. I'm going to go down multiple branches. I might go into numbered theory, probability and statistics for sure that's just as important as calculus. So that's the plan for all the math videos that I'm doing. Basically, within five to ten years I hope to have a space where anybody that wants to learn high school mathematics and an introduction to calculus can go there from beginning and learn it at their own pace, at their own leisure pace or fast pace if they want. So everything will be available there. At some point, I'm going to start getting into creating exercises and maybe even put out a little booklet for the language of math. We'll go hand in hand with everything available on the website. The site that I'm going to create that's going to be a mirror of the site is going to be specifically dedicated to raising money for certain organizations, grassroots organizations which I believe are trying to make the world a better place for us. So there's going to be two websites. One of them is going to be dedicated specifically to the language of mathematics, what I'm doing, my personal work. And the other one is going to mirror almost everything from my personal work. And it's going to be set up specifically to raise money for grassroots organizations that are helping to improve life for us. And basically those organizations are geared towards ending our war on nature. And human rights. I'm not going to get into it right now. It's quite important, it's my belief and I think it's the right direction to go. My schedule for having this website up is going to be hopefully sometime during the summer of 2010. So that gives me a few months to build the content that I need to build. You know, write and provide introduction about and explain text written-wise where I'm going to go and get all the resources I need to get together to put all this thing together. And again, all that stuff is going to be mirrored on the other website. And the last update, the last thing I want to mention is the next videos that you're going to see are probably going to be clean cut. This is going to go. The reason I'm going to be shaving this beard is because this winter Vancouver is hosting the Olympics and the city is going into lockdown. So it's not going to be a good idea for me to walk around with a little backpack and go into alleys and stuff like this to do the math videos on the walls. I'm going to have a certain limited amount of times in winter, you know, daylight shrinks. So I'm going to have to do this sort of gorilla style and doing things gorilla style in a city that's going into lockdown with a full beard is not a good idea. So I'm going to go clean cut because it's going to give me access to more areas and I won't get household by security or police or anyone like that, right? And the other reason I'm going to be shaving this beard is because the website that I plan to mirror, that's going to mirror all the math videos, I think the information there is going to be better received if I'm a clean cut chicho instead of a bearded chicho. It's just the audience that I'm trying to reach and I think it'll be better. It'll help to raise more funds and get the message across without any prejudices of people who might be turned off of these things, of these beards, right? So those are the two reasons why the beard is coming off and it's going to be cold. I'm going into winter, about to shave a beard so I'm going to freeze, not my buns off but I'm going to freeze my face off, which is okay. It's a sacrifice we all have to make. That's it for now and I guess I'll see you guys in the next videos. I'm not sure where they're going to be coming up but I'll be around. I plan on doing this if it takes me five years, ten years. It doesn't make a difference. As long as I'm around, I'm going to keep on making these until at least an introduction to calculus and we'll see where that goes, right? Hope you're enjoying them. Hope you enjoyed your summer. Hope you're enjoying the math videos. Hope you're enjoying life in general. We'll talk later. Bye-bye.