@DominicMichaelis Such surprises me. You have never succeeded in annoying me; though perhaps our means and regularity of contact, as well as the usual topics discussed may have contributed to that as well.
@skullpatrol I haven't seen them flocking around me, though. And most would consider me silent, thoughtful and what else has been thrown at me for the past years...
@Lord_Farin there was an extreme example of it recently where someone asked about what it meant when one had a "$i+j = k$" as summation index, and where he had seen it was in connection with graded cohomology
@TobiasKildetoft I've fallen victim to this pitfall several times myself, but nothing of this magnitude... The accumulated stupidity and stubbornness of the human race never seizes to amaze, I guess. :)
(And that's directed at myself, too. I'm not trying to burn the person in question.)
(not that I have not done my share of courses before I had the necessary maturity to really grasp the subject involved. For example, a course on Galois theory as the first course I took on my second year undergraduate, and a course on advanced Galois theory as the last course on my second year)
@Lord_Farin to some extend
my current research has been more focused on modular representations of algebraic groups
but I am also waiting for some input on something that will hopefully turn into a project in finite group theory
(and the one paper I have published was about complex characters of finite groups)
(Which may come off a bit paradoxical as AG is the main field of application for Grothendieck topoi, but I try to shelter safely on the logic side :).)
I'm currently investigating if I can start a PhD in nonstandard logics in December.
@skullpatrol Fuzzy logic is one type of nonstandard logic. I haven't been filled in on all the details, but it appears the research will be directed towards logic that can be employed in multi-party communication.
@skullpatrol no. i saw arturo's talk (which was nice, his exposition is as good in life as in SE) but I didn't get a chance to meet him (got distracted by women)
he's got a paper coming out though that i intend to read, he's attacking this problem on capable groups from an interesting standpoint
@DominicMichaelis, I can't let your personal post go without comment. It is a very long time since college for me...still, there are three fairly likely reasons for your friend to speak as she did: (A) she has a new boyfriend and does not wish your presence to mess that up; (B) she wants you as a boyfriend and is trying to get you to speak up and stop being iffy; (C) you really annoy her, and your apparent friendship is just do to the artificial closeness of a college campus. All three are quite possible. I'm not entirely sure how you would find out more, unless you have good friends in com…
For my part, I don't know how i would just be friends with a woman, unless I were also friends with her husband, but times change. And, in fact, I have typically not gotten along that well with wives of friends.
@DominicMichaelis, alright. It is harder if you lack sufficient information. And i do not have much more to offer than to suggest those three possibilities. About all MSE can do for you is this: if you do not already have an email address for Charlie, who is your age, you may email me if you like (use the gmail) and I can forward your expanded discussion to Charlie, who then may elect to email you directly. Since she popped in, same with amWhy, who is more graduate student age...
@amWhy While that is a sad I sympathies. Highschool sucked, I wish I dropped out and started college or studying mathematics earlier, instead of staying for the full 4 years learning essentially nothing.
@Dom, alright. I understand how circumstance might put people together for a while. I knew several people in college, more than I do now. I can see someone beginning to avoid you, if you do actually annoy her. the part i don't get is why she told you that you annoy her. Do you think that you pressed her for such a statement, forced her in some way to comment about you?
@Dom, then my three possibilities are really still open. I have errands to do now and will drop off Chat. You are welcome to email me, but note we are eight or nine hours different. Charlie and John Wordsworth are in closer time zones. I just feel that she chose that course of action to accomplish something that would not otherwise happen, but it spoils it for her if she needs to reveal what it is she wants. If all she wants is your absence, that is fairly easy to accomplish. Bye for now.
"Eternal return (also known as "eternal recurrence") is a concept that the universe has been recurring, and will continue to recur, in a self-similar form an infinite number of times across infinite time or space." - Wikipedia
@AlanH what about it? any nontrivial element a will have order not equal to 1 but a divisor of p^n hence of order p^m for some 0<m<=n, hence a^(p^(m-1)) will have order p.
@robjohn Is there a way to constantly render LaTeX? I used the bookmarks you gave me last time, but I have to click render every time someone types an equations
two of my wrong answers I vowed to correct and update, but haven't done so, have been upvoted recently. wonder if someone's trying to send me a message...
