Real sick this 2 days – fever, sore throat and running nose. I originally want to title this entry ‘The Fever’ but it reminds me of ‘Population/436′ and sends chills down my spine. It’s an extremely evil movie, you have been warned. Aw Yong, I don’t think you read my blog but if you see the title as ‘The Fever’, I bet you’d be reminded of it too. I have been virtually sleeping all day and my fever just went alternating; there was on and off periods of high body temperatures and then huge breakout of perspiration after taking a dose of Panadol. I was just wondering a few days ago, “Hey, I haven’t been sick for quite some time – I sure have a rather good immunity system.” Damn it, it’s just 3 or 4 days and the sickness strikes me. The worst part? I am enlisting soon and it’d be rather dangerous to be over at Tekong, sick from day one. I better get well soon.
I have, as mentioned in the previous entry, turned my attention from more social science articles to the mathematical and scientific stuff. Today I spent the little time I have awake proving a couple of very simple algebraic identities (actually it’s theorems, some summation, some sequences). The Fibonacci Sequences are easy because of their properties, you can easy switch one term to the sum of the previous because the sequence is defined such that F(n) = F(n-1) + F(n-2), where F(1)=F(2)=1. I have problems with proving the factor formula for Binomial Number. I still can’t prove it so if any readers are free, you might like to give it a try and if you succeed, I don’t mind being spoiled. It’s fun to do the fundamental stuff sometimes. That’s why someone even manage to publish the book, ‘Trig or Treat’ at some ridiculous prices by just pulling out ‘O’ Levels and ‘A’ Levels notes available everywhere and putting them on the side of tutorials on Trigonometry that students dump each year after they leave school.
Given this rate of publication of trivial books (albeit those that helps popularize what are misunderstood as being too sophisticated for the masses), I’ll soon amass sufficient crap (stuff I wrote) to publish a small book of random babblings. It’ll span topics of Literature, History, Geography, Sociology, Economic Analysis and Evaluations of economies, Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry (incorporating Biology) and Computers. It can even be a language guide (albeit one that provides negative examples on language usage).
Back to sleep.
