Yesterday was a good day. It started with language school (which ended today!), and then most of the BSM students walked to the Renyi Institute to hear a lecture in combinatorics given by Béla Bollobás, who is a very brilliant Hungarian mathematician. He is a professor at Cambridge, as well as a member of the Royal Society of London, and has proven numerous results. He is considered at the top of three fields in mathematics: functional analysis, graph theory, and combinatorics. In summary, I was learning from a giant of mathematics. All that being said, I found the lecture a bit scatter-brained (being a genius doesn't make one a good lecture), but overall very interesting and enjoyable (fortunately I had some background in the area and could follow - other students were not so fortunate).
After the lecture, we were invited to go on a dinner cruise on the Danube - which was especially beautiful because we got to see the city both during the light hours and lit up at night. It was fun to relax with other BSM students and enjoy the beauty of Budapest all around us. Check facebook for pictures from this trip.
That is all.
PS I leave for Prague tomorrow night!
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