Me and my equations.

Good news everyone, the cooking stove is now working! I lived off coffee, cereal, toast and take-out food for past 3-4 days. I have no idea how it was repaired, neither my flatmate or myself reported it to management; verily it was a miracle. Rejoice! I will now return to my diet of fish, rice, vegetables, coffee and bread; and occasionally Pakistani and Malaysian food. I'm also thinking about adding egg to my palette, but each time I try to fry or boil an egg it usually ends up burnt or uncooked respectively.

Another problem I must solve is understanding Lagrange's treatise "Reflexions sur la resolution algebrique des equations". His methods for explaining why cubic and quartics are solvable by equations are somewhat unclear to me. I understand each step of his work, I am just unable to link it to the problem he claimed to solve. To a degree Ruffini and Abel cleared the matter up, but I still want to comprehend what Lagrange was attempting to do. Oh I forgot to mention, this is for my history project - I'm reporting on the development of the theory of equations, namely on their solvability. I'm nearing completion, I just need to discuss the contributions of Abel and Galois, and then write introduction/conclusions. Hopefully I can get this finished before the end of the week, which will give me one more week to prepare for next semester.

I got a new (used) hat yesterday! My friend was wearing a trapping hat, so I asked him where he got it from. Then when I told him I really liked it, he gave it to me - very generous! Although I feel that it is a little tight around my head, I think I'll have to buy a bigger size to contain my painlessly. Nevertheless, it's a really cool hat and it keeps me warm during the winter mornings.

Okay, well I'm going to make myself some breakfast now - probably some toast and coffee, then I will head off to see if my department is open; if it is not then I'll go to another department with a computer cluster in order to finish project.