Imphal, October 15 2008: To many with the average cerebral content the very mention of solving mathematical problems can lead to an embarrassing situation but for someone whose purpose in life also include further working out mathematical solutions in a simpler way the subject is merely one of many hobbies.

Khundrakpam Angou Singh of Khangabok is one such man who prefers and aspires that mathematics is a solver rather than a problem.

For someone who never looked back whenever posed with mathematical problems, Angou through his dedication and endowed zeal recently compiled a book that enumerates working out a calendar for 3000 years and new mathematical techniques and formulae.

The said book christened 'New Techniques and Approximations A Mathematical approach'has 152 pages and was released a few weeks back with the compilation incorporating approximations of log and anti-log values, trigonometrical ratios, multi millennium calendars and simplification.

Confiding that it took nearly twenty years to work-out the book, Angou exuded confidence his production would assist the people especially mathematics students, engineers and science subject enthusiasts tackle mathe-matical problems in the most simplest manner.

Having began his professional career as a Section Officer and retired as an engineer in State's Public Works Department, Angou Singh cleared AMIE and took his academic pursuit to ME (civil engineering) at the Assam Engineering College and completed it with high first class.

Claiming that the multi millennium calendar is the first of its kind in the world, Angou, who currently stays at Tera Amudon Leirak and worked in different capacities such Managing Director and Chief Engineer in state corporations before retiring explained that his new book would be able to work out weekdays from the last part of the 15th century.

he also added that it covers a wide period of time containing only a half page.

Now 55 years of age, he also informed that with his book one can easily find out in which year a man was born after knowing his or her only day and date of birth.

A man who forgot the exact date, the date when he joined service but remembers the day at an approximate period of the month and year, can also easily track down with precision date of joining service by applying certain formula and table contained in his book.

An old man who started getting his pension on a particular day of a month in a certain period a year can also detect the month, he said.

"You can read data for 3000 years by using simple arithmetic operations like addition, substraction, multiplication and division.

Ordinary calendars are used to find out weekdays only but this millennium calendar can be used to find out any missing datas including century, year, month, date and day when necessary datas are supplied," Angou maintained.

A leaflet supporting his book says "The formulae/techniques, the function scale and Multi Millennium Calendar have turned the dream of solving problems without tables into reality.

It may be treated as a huge leap in mathematical science.

At his stage, the students need to be exposed to these new areas by introducing the topics into syllabus at the appropriate levels".

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