The current state of things hasn’t changed much. For the past two weekends I haven’t gone out at all.. as I’m working on weekends too.. till midnight.
The crunch is about to finish in a few days and I’m not feeling particularly tired. In fact, I’m generally pretty active. The fear of the super-final milestone is keeping me relatively excited.
I’m sleeping 6 hours per night or less, getting home at about 12:50 AM, reading the physics book on the train, morning and night as I go back home.
I got close to page 200 of the book, skipping the always challenging exercises while still trying to make sense of what the book says. Fourier came and went, but this time the explanation was more complicated than usual, as the book is really trying to make a point of complex number holomorphic functions (!), Riemann manifolds, Riemann surfaces and now partial differential equations.. in complex space.
I can’t really follow in detail all that stuff from one single source, reading a book sleepy or tired on a short train commute.. yet.. the book is keeping me company. I’m happy enough to at least get an overview of the most complex mathematical concepts out there, especially as they will later be used in the physics part of the book (100 more pages to get a taste of physics).
In the meantime, during compiling times at work (which I recently cut by starting to use precompiled headers for sources that include the XDK (XBox 360’s SDK) headers (very large !)), I’ve been refreshing things at the pre-calculus level with a very gentle introduction in the William Mueller’s Exploring Precalculus site.
Time is over, going towards 3 AM time to get my 6 good hours of sleep 8)
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