Day 12: A sleepy last day in Nuremberg, and

January 15, 2026

Day 12: A sleepy last day in Nuremberg, and

Greetings dearest readers,

Welcome to another installment chronicling our January Term adventures! Today, (many of us) spent our last day in Nuremberg. Today’s also the day one of our favorite mathematicians, Sofya Kovalevskaya, was born (YAYAYAY!!). We love you queen, you probably wouldn’t look a day over 160 if you were here today. In the most celebratory of fashions, we began our study of Kovalevskaya’s math today.

Before our mathematical endeavors, though, we of course had to coursing ourselves with yet another amazing hotel breakfast. Pictures do not do the European cuisine justice. With food in our bellies, we’re ready to begin our studies for the day.

Today, we worked hard at solving some Ordinary Differential Equations (an ODE to Kovalevskaya…get it …hah). We continued this with some exercises on vector spaces, and closed out with the infamous Euler’s Method, YIPEE!!

Following our class period, many of us rushed to the train station and past the Nuremberg Wall for lunch. This, for me, was yet another stop at Dunkin Donuts to fuel up on caffeine. We made it with 5 minutes to spare, getting ourselves 3 euro coffees before noon (a special deal in German Dunkin Donuts…I’m looking at you Minneapolis Dunkin).

After a pit stop at Dunkin, I began my packing for the free weekend. After approximately 1.5 hours of rolling and stuffing, I successfully managed to fit 2 trench coats, one leather jacket, and too many sweaters to count into my suitcase.

With many in the same boat of packing and relaxing, I chose to treat myself by visiting the New Museum, a contemporary art museum in Nuremberg. As an Art Historian AND Mathematician, I found this to be a fun last day excursion in Nuremberg. The coolest part? Probably finding a painting of the Fibonacci Sequence.

As the day draws to a close, many of us begin jetting (or in our case, bussing) across Europe. Some are off to Zürich and a lone soldier off to Spain. As for me and some other math pals, we took a 3 hour FlixBus to Prague, in the Czech Republic. Pictured below is our luxurious hostel pods!