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12:00 AM
Oh, do you mean Rudin's functional analysis book?
 
@PhilipHoskins Typically the proof doesn't really use the surjectivity (supposing we are talking about the version for complete metric TVSs), all you need is that for some $n$ the set $\overline{T(nV)}$ has nonempty interior for some $n$, for any neighbourhood $V$ of $0$ in the domain. By homogeneity, $\overline{T(V)}$ has nonempty interior.
@PhilipHoskins Yes, Functional Analysis. I don't think he has any version of it in RCA.
 
Ah that makes sense. I almost got Harry Boas' copy of that book when he had a big book give-away, but my friend snatched it right before I noticed it was right in front of me :(
But Lax's book seems pretty comprehensive, so I'll look it up in the morning.
 
Night, all.
 
12:18 AM
Night.
 
1:09 AM
man, I got up to like 98 days on the fanatic badge and then missed one
 
1:58 AM
@SamuelYusim it'll happen
 
yeah, I know it doesn't matter
 
@anon can you make heads or tails of what the manifold boundary guy is asking
 
no more than you were able to
 
2:15 AM
Ayo
 
hi anthony
 
How's it goin?
 
2:46 AM
hello
crickets chirp
 
hi mr crickets, @Stan
 
Hahaha
Okay question
 
hi @Anthony
 
So I am given two sets of points
 
Anthony, I'll be in the Bay Area again around Labor Day
 
2:53 AM
(x,y) where y=|x|
And the second one is $\mathbf{g}(t) = (t^3,|t^3)$
 
OK.
 
This is very interesting but they correspond to the same sets of points right?
There's no difference but just a difference in the function you are describing them with
 
Yes, it's a different parametrization. The latter is not what I call a regular curve. Indeed, because $y=|x|$ is not a differentiable $1$-manifold, there's no way to parametrize it by a function whose derivative is everywhere nonzero.
 
Yes exactly
Thats why this example is really cool
 
To turn the corner, you have to stop and restart.
 
2:56 AM
Huh?
 
You can actually do it $C^\infty$ by using the standard $e^{-1/t}$ gadget.
Don't grunt at me.
 
Wow! That's awesome
Ahem...sorry professor forgot we are in class
Lolol
 
gets out whip
What was your "huh?" for?
 
I didnt follow the "stop and restart" comment lol
 
Think about driving along that path. You have no choice but to slow down, stop, turn (while stationary), then restart. You cannot come in to that corner with nonzero speed, i.e., with a nonzero velocity vector, or else you'll continue in that direction, rather than turning $90^\circ$.
 
2:59 AM
Yes yes I see
I thought you were referring to my train of thought
 
Were you derailed again?
 
Yes, I'm clearly not a very good conductor.
So, when u say "graph" in these contexts, what do you mean?
You dont mean edges and vertices right?
 
No, I meant graph in the sense of precalc/calc.
 
Yeah okay
Why do you link manifolds to this chapter?
 
With regard to your question 4 hours ago, do whatever exercises interest you. In some sense, you really could start chapters earlier ... but you don't have those.
Because the implicit function theorem is the key to understanding them.
In econ and max/min we want to think of sets implicitly. But when we want to integrate on them, we need to parametrize them. So we need to understand that one can go back and forth between those two viewpoints, at least in theory.
 
3:03 AM
Wow, thats so neat. They never told us that this clearly. Thats nifty!
 
They?
 
My econ profs so far
I didnt see a big deal made of the implicit function theorem in John Lee's book, although I remember him saying it was an extremely important result in mathematics.
 
shrug What do you expect? Well, it's super important. Read or watch some of my stuff.
 
i will do. Brb
 
!!/alive
 
3:26 AM
Hello yall
 
3:41 AM
Hi pal
 
4:05 AM
Hi skull
@Stan: You trying to be southern?
 
4:45 AM
LOL
 
morning
 
@TedShifrin no, but I am told yall I use that a lot, which is surprising because when I speak about intellectual subjects it never occurs in my vocab.
Try this quiz
My sister and friends were taking it.
@MikeMiller good morning!
 
Hi Professor @TedShifrin
@StanShunpike thanks for sharing :-)
 
hi guys
 
Hi pal
 
5:05 AM
I'm from Australia, and this was my result @StanShunpike.
I am apparently from New York, not sure if $\text{good} \vee \text{bad}$
 
@DisplayName thats so cool! I got midwest so fairly accurate
@skullpatrol no problem! Its a nifty quiz :D
 
Huy
5:46 AM
Good morning everyone.
 
morning
 
Jim
6:02 AM
I need some help , graph theory.
can anyone help?
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Q: Construction of a Strongly Regular Graph which has regular subgraphs in all iteration.

JimNotation and Defination: $G$ is a Strongly Regular Graph( not a complete , cycle graph) with Every two adjacent vertices have $\lambda$ common neighbours. Every two non-adjacent vertices have $\mu$ common neighbours. $r$ regular and total $n$ vertices . A graph of this kind is someti...

any hint/ reference / advice will help
 
 
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7:13 AM
"If $x = (x_1,x_2,...,x_n,...) \in \mathbb{Z}_p$ and $px = 0$, then $px_{n+1} \equiv 0\bmod{p^{n+1}}$"
why then?
 
@user240033 By $\mathbb{Z}_p$ you mean the integers mod $p$?
 
$\mathbb{Z}_p$ are the p-adic integers.
 
but those have characteristic $0$
 
p(x1,x2,...) = (p*x1,p*x2,...)=(0,0,...) implies px_n=0 for each n
 
7:22 AM
@user240033 Ahh, I thought you meant to have a sequence of elements in $\mathbb{Z}_p$
 
@anon I know, but how come we start with $x_{n+1}$?
 
@user240033 No real reason as far as I can tell
 
because they want to conclude x_n=0
(BTW, if you understood my first comment and your real question in the first place was why n+1 was used instead of n, then you should have said so)
 
It wasn't my real question first.
 
then why did you respond to me with "I know"?
:confus:
 
7:30 AM
Because it was an uncertainty that knowing it was (0,0,0,0,...) at that point was "allowed".
but thanks anyway.
 
Huy
@DanielFischer: As a comment on a question on MSE, someone said that Milnor won a fields medal in 62 in part for giving the first example of a pair of smooth manifolds that are homeomorphic but not diffeomorphic. Is this what "On manifolds homeomorphic to the $7$-sphere" is about?
 
@Huy I think so. But I've never read that article.
 
@Huy Since the manifolds in question were homeomorphic to the 7-sphere that seems likely
 
 
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Huy
9:42 AM
@DanielFischer: It's a straightforward computation that shows the group property of flows on an open set $U$, namely if we have $\varphi: U \times (-S,S) \to V \subset M$ and $\varphi: V \times (-T,T) \to M$, then $\varphi^u$ is defined for $|u| < S+T$ and $$\varphi^{t+s} = \varphi^t \circ \varphi^s$$ on $U$. Now I am supposed to show a corollary: Assuming $U$ is open and $\varphi^t$ exists on $U$, then $\varphi^t(U)$ is open and $\varphi^t$ is a diffeomorphism onto its image.
@DanielFischer: I suspect the idea is to use $\varphi^{-t} \circ \varphi^{t} = \operatorname{id}$, but how can we know that $\varphi^{-t}|_{\varphi^t(U)}$ is well-defined? Does that somehow follow from the group property too or is there a different idea behind it?
 
@Huy Can you clarify the notation? At the moment, you're using $\varphi$ for two entirely different things. [Well, not really entirely different, but ...] I guess the setting is that $\varphi$ is defined on an open neighbourhood $W$ of $M\times \{0\}$ in $M\times \mathbb{R}$ and the premises are 1. $U\times (-S,S) \subset W$, 2. $\varphi(U\times (-S,S)) \subset V$, 3. $V\times (-T,T) \subset W$?
 
Huy
@DanielFischer: I think so, yes. I think maybe I could say that $\varphi^t \circ \varphi^s$ is defined on $U$ for $|s| < S, \, |t| < T$, and the group property says that then $\varphi^u$ is defined on $U$ for $|u| < S+T$ and $\varphi^{t+s} = \varphi^t \circ \varphi^s$.
That's a bit shorter, less explicit but it should be the same as you said if I'm not mistaken.
 
@Huy The key is that if $(x,r) \in W$, then $(\varphi^r(x),-r) \in W$. Now take small neighbourhoods to see that $\varphi^t$ is - on $U$ of course - a local diffeomorphism (with local inverses $\varphi^{-t}$). Glue together.
 
10:22 AM
@Huy exotic spheres are homeomorphic (but not diffeomorphic) to spheres, so I'd think so too.
not sure if he found such a pair with one manifold something other than a sphere before already, though. Mike would know.
 
11:05 AM
@BalarkaSen This is a lot similar to prime factorization . That is one possible reason why I like it
 
you're reading wiki way too much.
 
No what you just said is similar to prime factorization .. what we do in number theory, there is uniqueness and all
 
there is only a superficial similarity with prime factorization.
 
That is why I said it is kind of the same process ..
Though I might be wrong because I have not read about it in detail
 
@BalarkaSen prime factorization in N is corollary to JH for cyclic groups
 
11:08 AM
i'd'nt call that a very deep similarity.
 
wat
 
there are lots of instances in mathematics where you break up a "large mathematical structure" into smaller "indivisible" structures. i would not bother much about this similarity.
 
but this one actually implies FTA itself as a special case
 
yes, you're right, but i like to think about prime factorization in the ambient Z with Z given a ring structure. i don't think much number theory can be done by considering FTA as a special case of JH.
 
definitely not, it's an entirely different direction of thought than number theory
 
11:13 AM
what is JH?
 
Jordan-Holder
 
@Balarka So it does imply some kind of prime factorization but it cannot give me interesting results .. Or does it? Remember I am not someone who knows a lot about this topic of the subject
 
not anything interesting about number theory, no.
 
Oh.
 
11:18 AM
number theory requires a ring structure.
 
I had occasion to apply an analogue of JH to prove something nice recently
though the analogue is somewhat weaker
 
Huy
@BalarkaSen That's what I told him yesterday, but he stands his ground that he's not reading wiki...
 
@Huy I showed you the post which I was reading .. Didn't I?
 
Huy
@Rememberme: You had to find the link to the post again AFTER I told you to not just read/cite wiki out of context, which implies that you were for sure not reading that post just then.
 
and it was only in a lemma (though with a bit more care, I think that lemma could be formulated as an interesting combinatorial statement)
 
11:21 AM
Yes but it made me remembered about monster groups when I came to talk about it here
 
@TobiasKildetoft oh? can you elaborate?
 
@BalarkaSen It is Lemma 5 in arxiv.org/abs/1506.07008
the reformulation would give Kostka numbers as the sizes (number of right cells) of those intersections (the lemma just says that such an intersection is not empty)
 
Well I don't want to fight on am I reading wiki or not especially on a topic I have not much idea about
 
ehh, that's way too algebraic for me, as I feared.
 
@robjohn is this kind of series obvious in any way? $$2 \coth \left(2^{\pi/4+1}\right) \text{csch}\left(2^{\pi/4+1}\right)+2^2 \coth \left(2^{\pi/4+2}\right) \text{csch}\left(2^{\pi/4+2}\right)+2^3 \coth \left(2^{\pi/4+3}\right) \text{csch}\left(2^{\pi/4+3}\right)+\cdots$$
 
11:25 AM
@Balarka Do you subscribe to resonance (by IISC)?
 
what's that?
 
It is kind of an mathematical journal
 
no, I don't.
 
By IISc
 
I am not in IISc.
oh, you mean it's published by IISc?
never heard of it.
 
11:26 AM
Yes. yes
This june's edition had lots of stuff about Grothendieck
 
not much interested.
 
Oh.
 
11:56 AM
Hi there
Could someone explain me why 7^n =1 (mod 3) ?
 
Use induction to get a proof of what you said @scummy
 
@Rememberme how?
 
@scummy because 7 is 1 mod 3
 
there we go
 
ok, then?
 
11:59 AM
well, 1^n = 1
 
because 7 is 1 mod 3, it results than 7^n = 1 (mod 3)?
 
No.
You have to prove that
 
can't figure out how
 
We know P(n) is true(induction) which will imply P(n+1) will be true
 
@Rememberme Induction is really not needed here
 
12:00 PM
The imply one ... You have to prove
@Tobias But it is not a bad option to consider
 
@Rememberme given that the alternative is to compute 1^n, yes it is
 
@TobiasKildetoft what's the other way to proove this?
 
@scummy reduce 7 mod 3
 
still not got it
 
@scummy do you see that 1^n = 1?
 
12:04 PM
ok, nevermind. I just need some help at this problem : Find remainder of the division of 6^7^n to 43, where n is a nonzero natural number
@TobiasKildetoft yeah
 
@scummy and since 7 is 1 mod 3, 7^n is the same as 1^n mod 3
 
that's all?
thanks
 
well, assuming you are familiar with the usual rules of modular arithmetic
 
@TobiasKildetoft I'm not
I'm 7th grade
 
@scummy In that case, you probably want to do this more directly from the definition
or for that matter do induction as suggested
 
12:07 PM
Do you know induction@scummy
 
@Rememberme not very familliar with it, but yes
 
Then you can try that.
@Tobias Induction always makes me remember of your blog post
 
@Rememberme at the problem with the remainder?
 
12:19 PM
Well @scummy try proving that $6^m=6(\text{mod}43)$ where $m\in \Bbb{N}, m\geq 7$ which will give you your desired result
 
Huy
12:36 PM
@Danu: Honest question: Is Slereah a troll?
 
@Huy no
He's very specialized in certain aspects of GR I think, and I'm not sure he cares much for pure mathematics.
But I'm correct, right, that 4-manifolds seem special?
 
Huy
Yeah, I think so too.
But I'm not an expert either.
 
Fair enough.
 
@Rememberme are you there?
 
Yup I am
 
12:48 PM
This is how I feel right now:
Sorry bro
 
No prob ..
Ticks don't matter , OP has understood that is what which matters@Alec
 
You haven't seen MIB have you
 
I have seen MIB , but only the first part . I cannot make myself to see movies which have science fiction in them
 
Someone's just downvoted that answer
 
Such a huge downvote :p
 
12:54 PM
No but seriously, they upvoted you and downvoted me....
But it's like "I proved the statement" - anyway yes, it is about helping people, that's why I answered. I just didn't expect the tick.
 
Doesn't matter pal
 
-.-
2500 exactly!
 
@Danu 4-manifolds are quite special, yes.
 
I AM LIVING THE DREAM
I couldn't have done it without the downvoter.
 
@Chris'ssistheartist o/ anything new ? (other than a bunch of new problems :P)
 
12:59 PM
From the little I picked up from here and there : every group appears as fundamental group of n-folds for n > 3. so classifying n-manifolds for n > 3 like we do for n = 2 or n = 3 (considerably harder) is about almost impossible. however, there is a thing called the h-cobordism theorem, which works for smooth n-manifolds for n > 4, which makes it easy to deal with higher dimensional manifolds.
As 4-folds lies in the intersection of the two, they are very hard (impossible?) to classify.
 
@Rememberme it's not you serial downvoting me is it? Because:
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Alec TealAddendum: The first case. For $x\le 1$ as mentioned ALL of the expressions in the $|\cdot|$ are negative, so the expression takes the form: $$-(x+1)+x-3(x-1)+2(x-2)$$ $=-x-2$ after tidying up. This is valid as long as $-\infty<x\le -1$ - which the diagram confirms. It is easy to see that $x+2...

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A: How is the Taylor polynomial derived?

Alec TealI'm going to write some "A-level logic" here, but I think it will help. Take: $$f(x)=a_0+a_1x+a_2x^2+a_3x^3+\cdots$$ I noticed that: $f(0)=a_0$ $f'(0)=a_1$ $f''(0)=2a_2$ $f'''(0)=3*2a_3$ $f''''(0)=4*3*2a_4$ $\cdots$ $f^{(n)}(0)=n!a_n$ It follow from this that $a_n=\frac{f^{(n)}(0)}{n!}$ - yo...

Were just taken down..... oh god, who have I pissed off now? Is Timbuc unbanned?
 
(note : h-cobordism theorem for 4-folds is true in the topological category, but afaik, is false in the smooth category. that's why things in the 4th dimension are so exotic)
 
I haven't done any downvoting pal
 
What happened to your avatar BTW?
 
@AlecTeal don't bother, serial downvotes get reversed by a bot every 24 hours or so)
 
1:03 PM
@BalarkaSen not if your crafty.
See rather than trying to understand the serial downvoting reversal algorithm, I just built a neural network and fed it data.
You can stay under the radar.
 
fair enough. if someone downvotes in a period of a few minutes/seconds, only then the bot will be able to recognize that as a serial downvote, if i recall correctly.
 
if you ain't got nothing better to do with your life than serial down vote on the internet, that's your problem not mine
 
@BalarkaSen Else it's a chronic downvote ;)
 
hah
 
1:16 PM
I really hate the $\mathbb{R}^+$ notation, I really hope $\mathbb{R}_{\ge 0}$ catches on
 
@AlecTeal Why is that ?
 
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A: Symbol for set of strictly positive real numbers?

Alec Teal$\mathbb{R}_{\ge a}$ is VERY standard for $[a,+\infty)\subset\mathbb{R}$ and $\mathbb{R}_{> a}$ for $(a,+\infty)\subset\mathbb{R}$ This is a very obvious "There is no other sensible interpretation" convetion, if I give you $\mathbb{R}_{\le -5}$ you know immediately I mean $(-\infty,-5]$ I have ...

That question.
$R_{>0}$ is OBVIOUS, there is no sane way of interpreting that which isn't $(0,+\infty)$
$R^*$..... it's iffy.
 
hi there
why 6^7 = 6 (mod 43) ?
 
@AlecTeal How is it iffy ?
 
Is there any way to proove it without making the calculations?
 
1:20 PM
@Hippalectryon read the question. also what does $R^*$ mean? I've seen BOTH $\ge 0$ and $>0$ used as $R^*$ - THAT IS HOW IT IS IFFY.
 
@AlecTeal In france it 100% means [0,oo)
Which is why $R_*^+$ exists
 
@scummy because 6^7 = 279936 and that / 43 is 6510.1.... times, so 6^7-(43*6510) = 6
 
@AlecTeal I said that without making the calculations
 
@Hippalectryon the claim was that $R^*$ means (0,+oo)
You've just said where you are it is different
AND STILL YOU ASK WHY IT IS IFFY?
 
@AlecTeal In France $R^+=[0,\infty),R^*=R\backslash\{0\}$
I have always seen '*' used to mean 'the set without the neutral'
 
1:23 PM
@scummy hint: 7 is prime, as is 43
 
so what?
still can't figure out @AlecTeal
 
Good luck then
 
come on dude
 
@scummy 6^3 = 216 = 5*43+1
so 6^3 = 216 (mod 43)
6^7 = 6^(2*3+1) = 6^1 = 6 (mod 43)
 
Thanks @Martin!
 
1:28 PM
@AlecTeal take it easy on the kid
 
Huy
@skillpatrol: if you ain't got nothing better to do with your life than trying to show a 7th grader how much smarter you are than him, that's your problem not mine
 
@Huy well said pal
 
Huy
@skillpatrol: I just came up with that one. Very catchy, huh?
 
Indeed.
 
hi there
 
1:40 PM
hi pal
 
what is with all this clamor?
stay chill
 
we're chillin'
like a villian
;-)
 
ok then:3
 
They've replaced the Ghost thing in Destiny, but NOT the multiplayer announcer. Who sounds so depressed and bored, from his voice alone he ought to be on a suicide watch.
 
thanks for sharing the link pal @AlecTeal
 
1:57 PM
@Hippalectryon Welcome back. In the period you missed I probably caught one of the most creative period ever :-)
 
@Chris'ssistheartist I saw one of your question on the latest weekly newsletter :D
 
@Hippalectryon what kind of newsletter?
 
@Chris'ssistheartist The MSE weekly newsletters
 
@Hippalectryon Ah, I see.
@Hippalectryon btw, did you like the previous integral? The closed form is very nice and short.
 
I doubt that getting the solution is short however :DD
But yeah I like it
 
2:02 PM
@Hippalectryon All you need is a bit of art. :-)
 
@Chris'ssistheartist So you're a MSE newsletter contributor now?
 
@skillpatrol I think that stuff is automatically sent to some users. I post some problems on main once in a while out of curiosity more than to find solutions.
 
I see.
 
@skillpatrol For many of my problems I'm not sure there is nice known stuff in the literature.
 
@Chris'ssistheartist There will be once you publish :D
 
2:12 PM
@skillpatrol :D
@Hippalectryon on top of all I think I might have the most brilliant proof to the Euler's sine product (and rigorous).
I need to search through literature and see if anything like that is known.
 
In one line ? :P
 
@Hippalectryon Maybe not in one line but it's something very clever. :-)
@Hippalectryon ^^^ too nice to be real
 
I know this one too :-)
I listened to the whole album
 
2:53 PM
@Huy That was his first paper on the subject. He did plenty further work later, culminating (post-medal) in Kervaire-Milnor, groups of homotopy spheres.
 
Huy
Thanks, @MikeMiller.
 
@BalarkaSen It's impossible to classify $n$-manifolds for $n>3$ for the reason you mentioned. One usually restricts to highly connected $n$-manifolds, or puts some restrictions on the fundamental group. The h-cobordism theorem's failure makes it hard to classify different smooth structures on the same 4-manifold; in high dimensions this is classified by surgery theory, in 4 it's... not.
There is a classification of simply connected topological 4-manifolds up to homeomorphism. There is not of s.c. smooth 4-manifolds up to diffeomorphism. (Or even up to homeomorphism, yet - the 11/8 conjecture is the last thing in the way.)
otoh there was a full classification of s.c. 5-manifolds up to diffeomorphism in the 60s.
 
Huy
@MikeMiller: Let $a: (x,y) \mapsto (x+1, -y)$ on $\mathbb{R}^2$. Why is $\mathbb{R}^2 / \langle a \rangle = [0,1) \times [0, \infty)$? Shouldn't it be $[0,2) \times [0,\infty)$? Or what would the representant for $P = (\frac{3}{2}, \frac{1}{2})$ be?
 
You're modding out? You get a mobius band...
 
Huy
@MikeMiller: It's a construction of the Klein bottle with $b: (x,y) \mapsto (x,y+1)$ eventually.
 
3:05 PM
Sure, but you get a Mobius band now, not $[0,1) \times [0,\infty)$.
 
Huy
@MikeMiller: What would $\mathbb{R}^2 / \langle b \rangle$ be? Not $\mathbb{R} \times [0,1)$?
 
$\mathbb R \times S^1$.
 
Huy
Hm.
Now I'm confused.
 
Well, what's $\mathbb R / b$, where $b: x \mapsto x+1$?
 
Huy
@MikeMiller: I want to say $[0,1)$ but your previous claim implies $S^1$ is the right answer.
 
3:10 PM
@Huy: The map $\mathbb R \to S^1$, $t \mapsto e^{2\pi i t}$, is a quotient map with the 'kernel' we want it to have.
 
Huy
Not sure what you're trying to tell me?
 
How to show that $\mathbb R/b = S^1$?
 
Huy
@MikeMiller: In your notation, what does $\mathbb{R}/b$ mean?
 
The same thing as $\mathbb R/\langle b\rangle$.
 
Huy
Set of equivalence classes?
Ok, so $\langle b \rangle$ is the group of isometries generated by $b$, right?
 
3:14 PM
Space of equivalent classes... the quotient space with quotient relation generated by $x \sim b(x)$
 
Huy
Exactly.
@MikeMiller: So how is $\mathbb{R}/b$ not $[0,1)$? $0 \sim 1 \sim 2 \dots$, $0.1 \sim 1.1 \sim 2.1 \dots$
@MikeMiller: Or would you be satisfied by $[0,1]$ with $0 \sim 1$, which is $\cong S^1$?
 
Yes. It's not $[0,1)$ bexause it's not. You have to do better than just picking a point for each wquivalence class; this is a topological space, and it has a topology.
 
Huy
3:29 PM
Ah, yes, that was the confusion. Sorry.
 
3:39 PM
@Hippalectryon
 
@Chris'ssistheartist
Do you even have the generalization ?
 
@Hippalectryon I did now all kind of generalizations.
 
@DanielFischer is there any way to prove that math.stackexchange.com/questions/1385526/… without complex analysis ? It seems quite challenging
 
Hi!!! Could I ask you something?
We consider the points A, B, C with A =(1, 1, 0), B = (1,0,1) , and C = (0, 1, 0). Find a non-zero vector U=<U_1,U_2,U_3> that is perpendicular to the vectors AC and BC. I have tried the followig:

AC is the vector (-1,0,0) and the vector BC is (-1,1,-1).
So that U is perpendicular to these 2 vectors, it has to hold $U \cdot AC=0 \Rightarrow -U_1=0$ and $U \cdot BC=0 \Rightarrow B=C$. So the vector U is $(0,1,1)$.
 
3:47 PM
@Hippalectryon I don't know how good at math I am but I'm sure no one can take my dream away about math. :-)
 
@Chris'ssistheartist :-D
 
@Huy Do you maybe have an idea if it is right?
 
Huy
@evinda: You can check by computing the scalar product twice with your proposed vector $\vec{u}$.
@evinda: Also, what you mean is $u_2 = u_3$, not $B = C$.
 
@Huy Yes, that's what I meant. I am sorry. So is the vector (0,1,1) correct?
 
So it should be correct :) @Huy
Thanks :) @Huy
 
Huy
@evinda: Note that this is just a vector perpendicular to the two vectors $\overline{AC}$ and $\overline{BC}$, not the. Such a vector is not unique.
 
I see.. Thank you @Huy
 
4:17 PM
Has anyone seen Tee dog around lately?
 
who?
 
Teadawg
 
Oh him. Nope, not me.
 
I went looking for a definition of "quantum algebra". According to Wikipedia, Quantum algebra "is one of the top-level mathematics categories used by the arXiv". And that's it. Okay...
 
@NormalHuman: This is approximately the only definition I've ever heard.
 
4:26 PM
Does anyone know where I can find Stewarts Integration by parts problems online?
I just find solutions.
 
this looks like his last message @Owatch
 
:(
 
> last seen 80d ago
 
4:27 PM
Is he kill?
 
nah
people get busy
 
Maybe he is into machoism. Studying hard, but refuses to go on math.SE
 
math does that
 
AFAIK he wanted to study stuff during his vacation.
Not much else. I hope he comes back.
 
me too pal
 
4:30 PM
So yeah, does anyone know where to find Stewarts math problems online?
They were pretty tough for me, I'd like to work on some right now.
 
5:11 PM
Great
Integration by parts gives me a part more complicated than the original integral.
I guess that means I shouldn't have picked the parts I did.
 
@Hippalectryon I think I said that once here: some time ago I went to a company where I worked for some years, but at the beginning I met some that told me I won't resists 3 days on that position. A few months later I was teaching the whole department teh stuff they had to do. The same story will happen with math in a way or other, and one has to be very stong, extremely strong especially when you see around you so many people ready
to discourage you, to be like them, without no high dream, aim, to be just another average person.
 
I often read here people saying that I compare myself to Ramanujan. And what? I'm going to be as great as him in terms of integrals, series and limits.
 
Moral of the story is: If they tell you that you won't last three days, assassinate them because it means they are plotting to kill you.
 
@Owatch lol :-))))))
The thing that makes no sense to me is to have a little dream when you can choose to be great, not the fact that you compare yourself with anyone.
I actually see in Ramanujan a reference point in terms of performance. I'm not afraid to have such reference points, but it makes me life entirely noble.
BBL
 
5:53 PM
I want to find the convex hull of the set S={(1-t)^4, 4(1-t)^3 t, 6 (1-t)^2 t^2, 4(1-t) t^3, t^4) : t \in R}
 
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