Endless Realm of Induction

Sept. 26-08

This was our third week on the topic of induction. It is amazing how well inductive reasoning coexists with other mathematical principals such as Principle of Well-Ordering. We have spent all the past weeks studying induction, now I don't have any hesitation using complete induction anymore. It was not as if I went through every practice question in the textbook to get myself familiar with strong induction. It was rather due to the effective lecture style which was newly adopted this year. Thanks to the tablet, I was able to fully concentrate on the lecture instead of putting all my efforts copying the notes [since I was such a slow writer.]

I promised myself to work on the assignment during last weekend, but I couldn't. Whatever I do, it has to be done till next Monday. I have done some scratch works for the assignment, now I need to phrase them into solid proofs. Problem set #2 was due today. Because my mind was taken over by the concerns regarding the first assignment, I completely forgot about the problem set. It was not until the last night when I suddenly remembered to finish it. I need to check the course website more frequently to remind myself what is coming up next.