« first day (2363 days earlier)      last day (2665 days later) » 

8:00 PM
Hey everybody
 
Yup, @Balarka.
Hi @Damniark :P
 
How's everything going?
 
@Mahmoud: I truly suggest you do the sheet I posted for you. Then Spivak's more general stuff will make sense.
We changed the book to make it more gradual and concrete.
What's new in UC mathland, Daminark?
 
Well, we've started ODEs now
 
Since you clearly have mastered all of vector calculus :P
 
8:02 PM
For some reason I was thinking Daminark was in Denmark
 
Ah, no, it's a thing I came up with when I was younger
My name is Amin
 
LOL, I assumed his name was some sort of mythical allusion.
 
So Daminark was basically my 10 year old self thinking "Amin in the dark"
 
Ohhhhh ...
 
i like that
 
8:03 PM
And it sounded cool so I rolled with it
 
So, like the string "amin" literally placed inside the string "dark"?
"Amin" in the "dark"?
 
Yeah
 
Uninteresting Anagram :P
 
Darakivak
Doesn't sound as good
 
Somehow, internally, I don't pronounce the "Amin" in "Daminark" the way I would my own name
 
8:05 PM
No, accent all screwy.
 
Is it pronounced like "ah-MEEN"?
 
It's pronounced "Uh-mean", but I think of "Daminark" as being "Dah-min-ark"
Yeah @Akiva
 
sticks to three-letter, simple names
 
I've been reading it as "Damn, it arc'"
 
You mean Damn it, arc
 
8:06 PM
Well, I changed it to damn i arc :P
 
Noah discovering a leak @Balarka
 
Sorta like the one at the back of Balarka's head
no, DogAteMy, that would be ark, not arc :P
Anyhow, lunch time for me ... and then I'm going to a concert.
Bye all
 
Enjoy
 
Aight, see you around @Ted!
 
somehow leaks at the back of the head scares me. too much cronenberg for me this week
 
8:10 PM
You make me want to watch the cronenberg episode of rick and morty
 
didnt know that was a thing till I googled it
 
@TedShifrin $( \dfrac{f_i(x)-f_i(y)}{x-y})' = \dfrac{f_i'(x)(x-y) \dots}{(x-y) \ ^ 2} $ ?
 
@KajHansen ping me if you are there :)
 
@TedShifrin Have fun!
♫ E B r B C D F G# :|| ♫
 
If I have an not identically holomorphic "around" $0$ function $f$ such that $f(1/n)\le e^{-n}$, what can said about $f$ ? I write $f(z)=z^p g(z)$ but I get $g(1/n)\le n^p/e^{n}$ and it converges to $0,$ so not sure how can I continue.
 
8:25 PM
I would be pleased about questions that I could answer.
 
Remind me what "not identically" means?
 
@TedShifrin do your kiddos sometimes ask you something where you first have to think about a while?
 
Sorry it's poorly written, I mean that $f$ is not zero everywhere
 
OK yeah, I was wondering what "not identically holomorphic" meant.
 
@AkivaWeinberger Ah, of course I get $g(0)=0$ but when I write $f(z)=z^p g(z)$ I do have $g(0)\ne 0$
thanks
 
8:30 PM
I think I made a typo (which is why I deleted it)
What's $p$? @JeSuis
The multiplicity of the zero?
 
yeah but when I read your comment, I get the point ^^
 
Ah, OK
$f(z)/z^p$ goes to $0$ at $0$, but it should be nonzero
Yeah
 
$p=min\{z: f(z)\ne 0\}$
 
The point is holomorphic functions are like polynomials. They can't decay so fast.
But I see you already got an answer
 
Yeah, I get the idea when I saw Akiva writes $z^p g(z)$ I don't know why ^^
but nice "intuition" @BalarkaSen
 
8:34 PM
Wait, so it's not the multiplicity?
 
@Akiva It is
 
You don't mean $\min\{p:z^{-p}f(z)|_{z=0}\ne0\}$?
 
It's just the exponent of the leading term in the Taylor expansion
I had more questions, but Ted is gone. :(
 
He's listening to music
Probably not "♫ E B r B C D F G# :|| ♫", but it could be
Theoretically
LaTeX should implement music notation.
That would be so cool.
 
Music is great stuff
 
8:45 PM
Googles
 
musescore is the way to go if you need to write music
 
1
Q: Show $K_2=f+O(\Delta\,t)=f+\Delta\,t(f_t+ff_u)+O(\Delta\,t^2)$

Simple Consider the single differential equation $u'(t)=f(t,u(t))$ and the numerical method $$\begin{align*}U^{n+1}&=U^n+\frac{\Delta\,t}{2}(K_1+K_2)\\ K_1&=f(t_n,U^n)\\ K_2&=f\left(t_n+\Delta\,t,U^n+\frac{\Delta\,t}{2}(K_1+K_2)\right)\end{align*}$$ Let $u(t)$ denote the solution of the differen...

 
$\require{abc}$
\begin{abc}[name=c-dur]
X: 1 % start of header
K: C % scale: C major
"Text"c2 G4 | (3FED c4 G2 |
\end{abc}
 
I need some help do this problem
 
Aw
Apparently LaTeX can do it, though
Not MathJax
Still, very cool
 
8:56 PM
screw it
 
Lmao @Socrates
Try it in Latex?
 
"Apparently LaTeX can do it" - Akiva
 
No I didn't capitalize the T
Or X
I meant the material\
Probably shouldn't have capitalized the L
 
I understood you before you typed it
 
Oh lol
 
9:00 PM
i mean, after the second line
i fear that everything I experienced is nothing
that everyone I communicated with were very sophisticated cleverbots
 
Dammit guys we failed the Turing test
 
We're definitely not bots, oxygen is awesome, long live oxygen!
 
We ? It's clearly your fault
 
( ._.)
 
what you think about this emoticon? ._O
I told someone to read the forum rules, and it seems he/she didn't understand them
every pc game is trash, heroes of might and magic III, a beloved game by me, is now boring. And every game is boring.
 
9:11 PM
hey guys, need some help with normal distribution
I have $Y~N(100,10)$ and I need to find $P(Y<95)$, so I try to convert to $Z~N(0,1)$ and that changed my $P(Y<95)$ to $P(Z<-5/\sqrt{10})$ How can i find the value for this without using the table
 
Use \sim and \sqrt
$\sim$, $\sqrt{\phantom{Hello!}}$
@SylentNyte
 
there we go
sorry, forgot the syntax
anybody?
 
@Balarka are you still here?
 
yep
 
Is $\Lambda^k(V)^*$ spanned by stuff of the form $dx_1\wedge\cdots\wedge dx_k$ with $dx_i$ in $\Lambda^1(V)^*$? (also isn't $\Lambda^1(V)^*$ just $V^*$?)
 
9:26 PM
Well, $dx_{i_1} \wedge \cdots \wedge dx_{i_k}$. But yes, and yes.
 
yeah that's what I meant, annoying indexes :P
 
Formally, it's called an exterior algebra. But the algebraic story isn't something I find very important.
Let me know when you want to actually get to differential forms.
 
Wikipedia says the exterior algebra is the direct sum of the $\Lambda^i(V)^*$, which makes sense to me, or a quotient of the tensor algebra, which doesn't
whenever you want (and can)
 
can you explain me your question? :34946651
 
tensor algebra is just the same story, but with multilinear forms with no alternating condition.
 
9:33 PM
@Socrates ah its okay, I had to find $P(Y<6.957010852370434)$ and as the table didnt cover it I wanted to know if there was an equation, but then I realised that itd be 1
 
@Alessandro Let's do it
 
@SylentNyte one decimal place is more then enough for almost anything
 
@Socrates felt like being extra
 
@SylentNyte i appreciate
can you explain what you searched @SylentNyte
 
Ok, I have no idea what the tensor product is (and I don't want to find out right now), but I guess that $\omega\wedge\omega=0$ because of that quotient?
 
9:38 PM
@Socrates what like on google?
 
$\omega_1 \wedge \omega_2 + \omega_2 \wedge \omega_1 = 0$ happens because of the quotient in general.
But yes.
 
@SylentNyte no, what is $Y\sim N(100,10)$?
 
@Socrates Is just a normal distribution my teacher gave me as part of some prep for next lesson
 
Ok, I'll add the tensor product to the never ending list of things I should find out more about
so, what's a differential form?
 
however I got stuck at the very last bit at where I had to do $P(Y<6.957)$ so I started to google and then went onto here before realising its just $1$
 
9:41 PM
Tensor $V\otimes W$ is the set of things of the form $k_1v_1\otimes w_1+k_2v_2\otimes w_2+\dotsb+k_nv_n\otimes w_n$
 
Does it hold that the cardinality of $\mathbb{C}$ is the same as the cardinality of $\mathbb{R}$, $\frak c$ ?
 
with $(a+b)\otimes c=a\otimes c+b\otimes c$, and similarly for $a\otimes(b+c)$
@MaryStar Yep
 
@AkivaWeinberger Ah ok. Thanks!!
 
Nah, it's ok. You're not working basis-wise.
@Alessandro Given an $n$-manifold $M$ a differential $k$-form $\omega$ on $M$ is a smoothly varying alternating multilinear $k$-form $\omega(p)$ on $T_pM$ for each point $p \in M$. Smoothly varying in what sense? Well, just that given $k$ (tangential) vector fields $X_1, \cdots, X_k$ on $M$, $\omega(p)(X_1, \cdots, X_k)$ is a smooth function $M \to \Bbb R$ of $p$.
 
Also $(ka)\otimes b=a\otimes(kb)=k(a\otimes b)$
OK, so I don't need the constants in the general form thing
 
9:47 PM
Start with an example. Let $M = \Bbb R^n$, the simplest example of an $n$-manifold. $T_p \Bbb R^n$ can actually be identified with $\Bbb R^n$ itself; tangent vectors at $p$ are vector in $\Bbb R^n$ with the "tail" at $p$.
 
hmmm I'm not sure I follow the vector fields part
 
Don't worry about it, it'll be clear once we get a good handle with $\Bbb R^n$.
I just threw you the abstract definition to see how you react to it.
Just think of "smoothly-varying" hand-wavingly
In any case, a $k$-form on $\Bbb R^n$ is an expression of the form $\sum f_I dx_I$ where $I$ runs through ordered $k$-tuples, and $f_I$ are smooth functions on $\Bbb R^n$.
So instead of the constant term in front of the $dx_I$ in the alternating multilinear theory, you have a smooth function. Does that make sense?
 
it does. So in the simplest case a $1$-form is just $fdx_{i_1}$ with $f$ smooth right?
 
write $i$ instead of $i_1$ for simplicity. Yep
 
yeah I never know how to write those indices
 
9:55 PM
Eg $dx$, $dy$, $-ydx + xdy$ are all 1-forms on $\Bbb R^2$
$dx \wedge dy$ is a 2-form on $\Bbb R^2$
@Alessandro why does this match up with the abstract definition? If $\sum f_I dx_I$ is a $k$-form on $\Bbb R^n$, then "evaluating at a point $p$" gives an alternating k-multilinear form $\sum f_I(p) dx_I$ at $T_p \Bbb R^n$ :)
since $T_p \Bbb R^n$ is as a vector space same as $\Bbb R^n$ you can also see it as a alternating k-multilinear form on $\Bbb R^n$ (which is a vector space this time, not a manifold). but technically it's on $T_p\Bbb R^n$.
 
Lol @Balarka when we talked about forms, that was one of our main examples
$-ydx + xdy$
 
it's an important example of a 1-form
 
The main one was $\frac{-ydx + xdy}{x^2 + y^2}$
 
You probably had a stretch factor on it.
 
@Daminark That's a 1-form on $\Bbb R^2 - {(0, 0)}$, @Alessandro.
We're already getting examples of forms on more general manifolds than R^2
 
10:01 PM
Since we defined winding number about the origin using it, as well as when we did that problem about de Rham cohomology of the punctured plane
 
hmm, ok, I see how those are forms, I'm not sure how do we get an alternating k-multinear form on $T_p\Bbb R^n$
 
Actually we ended up using forms to prove the fundamental theorem of algebra
It was a nice proof
 
Ah, no, wait, I do
 
@Daminark Right, winding numbers are key to FTA
@Alessandro :) Eg, $xdx$ is a 1-form on $\Bbb R$. evaluate that at $2$, you get a 1-form $2dx$ on $T_2 \Bbb R$
evaluate that at $0$ you get the trivial 1-form
so it's really a family of alternating k-multilinear forms at each point, or rather, at tangent spaces at each point
 
We had two other proofs, both of which had the same idea of saying that some positive minimum for the polynomial is achieved, but then you can't have that geometry of the image of a polynomial being tangent to a disk
 
10:06 PM
@BalarkaSen that $1$-form actually is just $x\mapsto 2x$ at the end of the day since $T_2\Bbb R=\Bbb R$ and $1$-forms are linear functionals, right?
@BalarkaSen ok that makes sense now
 
@AlessandroCodenotti Exactly!
 
The proof we did in class just manufactured the term, the other proof was on the homework and used another exercise to show that a polynomial is an open mapping
 
So, sanity check $dx\wedge dy+dx$ is a meaningless expression, $dx\wedge dy+dz\wedge dx$ is a $2$-form on $\Bbb R^3$
 
That's right.
You have a vector space of $k$-forms on $\Bbb R^n$, but this is a vector space over the space of smooth functions $C^\infty(\Bbb R^n)$ (funny... this is not a field)
Because given a $k$-form $\sum f_I dx_I$, scalar multiplication is really multiplication by a smooth function $g$ on $\Bbb R^n$. Addition works exactly the same way as before.
The formal word is that the space of differential $k$-forms on $\Bbb R^n$, denoted as $\Lambda^k(\Bbb R^n)^*$, is a "module" over the ring $C^\infty(\Bbb R^n)$ of smooth functions. It's a "vector space over a ring"
I guess you know what a module is though.
 
I know the definition and a couple of basic facts, but not much
 
10:16 PM
That's fine, I don't either. None of the algebra, or the abstract formalism I told you, matters much
 
but that makes a lot of sense to me
 
Great
 
begin{rant} why do mathematicians always use the same symbol ($\Lambda^k(\Bbb R^n)^*$) for $2$ different things? end{rant}
 
In one case R^n is a vector space. In the other R^n is a manifold :)
it's rather confusing, but such is life: R^n has way too many structures
I think Ted uses $\mathcal{A}^k(\Bbb R^n)$ for differential forms though. I forget.
Also you should remove the star. I mistyped
 
do you mean everywhere or just for differential forms?
 
10:20 PM
Just for forms.
 
forms should have the star
 
hmm, I thought that's for vector space levels only
actually aren't forms $\Omega^k(\Bbb R^n)$
@Alessandro Note that wedge product of $k$-forms work the exact same way too. $dx_I \wedge dx_J = dx_{(I, J)}$, and then extend to all of $\Omega^k(\Bbb R^n)$ (that's the notation I am going to use for now) as a $C^\infty(\Bbb R^n)$-module.
and it satisfies anticommutativity $\omega \wedge \eta = (-1)^{k\ell} \eta \wedge \omega$ where $\eta, \omega$ are $k$- and $\ell$-forms respectively. just like alternating multilinear forms.
 
Hello chat.
 
Ok, that was expected, I'll check it though. (As far as notation is concerned Ted uses the star for vector spaces and $\mathcal{A}^k(\Bbb R^n)$ for forms)
 
Right, but I am going to use $\Omega^k$ for what Ted calls $\mathcal{A}^k$
 
10:30 PM
sure, as long as we agree on what to use
 
Right.
The real deal with differential forms is that we can differentiate and integrate them.
 
I was starting to wonder what's the point
 
A 0-form is just a smooth function $f$ on $\Bbb R^n$. We can "differentiate" that to get a 1-form: $df$, the derivative of $f$.
Generalize: given a $k$-form $\sum f_I dx_I$, we can "differentiate" that to get a $(k+1)$-form $\sum df_I \wedge dx_I$.
 
ok, the relationship with alternating k-multilinear forms kinda breaks down at 0-forms
 
an alternating 0-multilinear form is... a scalar. a differential 0-form = a smoothly varying 0-multilinear form = a smoothly varying scalar = a smooth function :)
nothing really breaks down
 
10:36 PM
hmm, well, maybe I'm just annoyed by the fact that scalars look like functions with zero arguments there
 
$\pi$ is a function with zero arguments. $\pi()$
And now I look like a programmer.
 
@Alessandro The point is not that a scalar is a function with zero argument. The point is that you're assigning to each point of $\Bbb R^n$ a scalar. Done smoothly, it's a smooth function.
$p \mapsto f(p)$
 
ok, I'm convinced I was just being stupid there. So back to differentiation
 
OK. So you agree with me that you can "differentiate" a $k$-form to get a $(k+1)$-form like I said above?
This operation is known as the exterior derivative, denoted as $d : \Omega^k \to \Omega^{k+1}$, BTW.
 
well I'm sure that's a well defined operation turning $k$-forms into $(k+1)$-forms and it agrees with my notion of differentiation for (smooth) functions, I'm not sure yet that's the right generalization
 
10:43 PM
It's funny how none of these definitions actually make sense at a glance. You wanna differentiate the $1$-form $fdx + gdy$ (on $\Bbb R^2$) for me, see what you get?
Remember that $df = \sum_i \partial f/\partial x_i \cdot dx_i$, by definition if you wish.
 
@Balarka The dual means they eat vectors, which is what forms do. Now R^n is canonically identified with its dual, but you shouldn't use that.
 
@BalarkaSen $df\wedge dx+dg\wedge dy$?
 
@Alessandro Yes. Expand using what I wrote? Or rather, write in terms of the basis $dx, dy$ in $\Omega^1(\Bbb R^2)$
@MikeMiller I agree, I just wasn't sure if that's what one uses for manifold-level forms too. I was aware of that star only at vector space-level.
But we agreed on a better terminology
 
Sure you're aware of it on the manifolds level. You use the cotangent bundle!
 
Yeah good point
 
10:52 PM
modulo mistakes I got $\big(\frac{\partial f}{\partial y}-\frac{\partial g}{\partial x}\big)dy\wedge dx$
 
That's it. $(g_x - f_y) dx \wedge dy$.
Does $\partial g/\partial x - \partial f/\partial y$ remind you of anything? Eg, from vector calculus?
 
not really? But I might be missing something obvious
 
Threen's guiorem
Or something
 
lol
 
we'll see Green's theorem in the next semester :/
 
10:59 PM
Ahh, I see.
Eh, what the hell. The discussion has gotten nonlinear enough that I can tell you about it
Call $\omega = fdx + gdy$. Then you just proved $d\omega = (g_x - f_y) dx \wedge dy$
 
lol maybe we should get a separate chatroom. I'm copy/pasting everything in a LaTeX file at the moment to look back if I need to.
right
 
Let's spam the geometry/topology chatroom with this garbage
the room owner won't ban us because i'm the room owner
 
There's a geometry/topology chatroom?
 
that's one way to keep it active I guess
 
Oh lol
 
11:04 PM
@Daminark This is the one
 
Ah, cool, thanks!
 
11:32 PM
Can someone help explain this to me
In mathematics, a well-order (or well-ordering or well-order relation) on a set S is a total order on S with the property that every non-empty subset of S has a least element in this ordering. The set S together with the well-order relation is then called a well-ordered set. In some academic articles and textbooks these terms are instead written as wellorder, wellordered, and wellordering or well order, well ordered, and well ordering. Every non-empty well-ordered set has a least element. Every element s of a well-ordered set, except a possible greatest element, has a unique successor (next element...
 
what exactly are you having troubles understanding?
 
Just the general concept
I am familiar with sets and the concepts with sets and infinite sets
and I need to understand this better for a paper I'm writing
 
which part don't you understand?
 
I'm having trouble understaning the concept of being well-ordered as a whole
I was hoping someone could attempt to help me by explaining it in more basic terms
 
do you understand what an ordering on a set is?
 
11:37 PM
I think I'm looking at something in the wrong area, I was looking for stuff more related to Zermelo and Cantor but this seems to be a little different
I'm not familiar with ordering on sets no
 
a total order is a way of arranging the elements of a set in some order so that every two elements are comparable (given any two elements, one of them comes before the other). there are orderings which are not total, e.g. the collection of subsets of {1,2,3} can be ordered by "A<B whenever A is a proper subset of B," in which case e.g. {1} and {2,3} are not comparable to each other.
 
Thats seems relatively easy to understant
 
a well-order goes further: every subset must have a unique minimal element. in general, subsets of total ordered sets may not have minimal elements (e.g. the even integers as a subset of the integers has no minimum).
 
Could you give some examples to make it a bit cleared?
Thank you for helping me btw
 
examples of what specifically?
 
11:43 PM
Well-ordered sets vs non-well-ordered sets
 
The positive integers $\{1,2,\dots\}$ are well-ordered. The integers $\{\dots,-1,0,1,\dots\}$ are not.
It's not well-ordered because you can take the entire set as the subset; there's no smallest integer.
On the other hand, the nonnegative rationals are not well-ordered
since the subset of the positive rationals has no minimum
even though the entire set does.
 
Essentially there needs to be a defined min for it to be described as well-ordered?
 
suppose L is an infinite well-ordered set. then it must have a minimum element, call it 0. then L-{0} must have a minimum element, call it 1. then L-{0,1} must have an element, call it 2. and so on. we get {0,1,2,3...} inside L. but then if L-{0,1,2,...} still has elements in it, it must have a smallest, call it ω. if L-{0,1,...,ω} still has elements, call its minimum ω+1. we can continue in this way to get L={0,1,..,ω,ω+1,...,2ω,2ω+1,...} (although it has to stop eventually)
 
$S=\{0\}\cup\{1,1/2,1/3,\dots\}$ is another example; it has a minimum, but the subset of nonzero elements doesn't, so it's not well-ordered.
On the other hand, $T=\{0\}\cup\{-1,-1/2,-1/3,\dots\}$ is well-ordered.
$\{\infty\}\cup\{1,2,3,\dots\}$ (with $\infty$ defined to be greater than any other element) is also well-ordered, and is in fact order-isomorphic to $T$.
 
So essentially the set and all subsets must have a defined min?
 
11:48 PM
Yup.
All finite sets are well-ordered, also, clearly
 
@AkivaWeinberger ....
 
LMAO I got that far on my own
 
all totally ordered finite sets are well ordered
 
We're assuming everything here is totally ordered, I think
@Jasch1 Do you know about countability and uncountability?
It turns out that there is an uncountable well-ordered set
 
11:50 PM
Yes I understand countability vs uncountability
 
though it's hard to construct, kind of
 
But I am a bit more confused now, because although some sets are not well-ordered, the Well-ordering theorem says "In mathematics, the well-ordering theorem states that every set can be well-ordered"
from wikipidia
 
By changing the order.
 
but in the set that you mentioned before
 
Like, the negative integers are not well-ordered,
 
11:52 PM
@Jasch1 that means if you start with a set that has no ordering on it, it is possible to find a way to well-order it. it doesn't mean if you start with an already ordered set that it's well-ordered.
2
 
but if you define a new order $\prec$ such that $-1\prec-2\prec-3\prec\dotsb$, then it becomes well-ordered.
It's just not well-ordered with the usual order $<$.
 
$S=\{0\}\cup\{1,1/2,1/3,\dots\}$ how would this be rearranged or have a new order defined such that it is well-ordered?
 
Use the opposite order
2
Meaning, define a new order $\prec$ such that $a\prec b$ iff $a>b$ (where $>$ means the old order)
2
 
ok
 
So we'd have $1\prec1/2\prec1/3\prec\dots\prec0$
2
This set (with $\prec$) is isomorphic to the set $T$ from before (with the old ordering $<$)
2
8 mins ago, by Akiva Weinberger
On the other hand, $T=\{0\}\cup\{-1,-1/2,-1/3,\dots\}$ is well-ordered.
That one. ^
2
 
11:55 PM
ok, i seem to have a decent understanding
Thank you guys!
 
Alternatively, you could define a new order $0\prec1\prec1/2\prec1/3\prec\dotsb$, making it isomorphic to the nonnegative integers @Jasch1
 
@AkivaWeinberger fun fact: a set is finite iff it has a well order whose reverse order is also a well order
 
There's really an uncountable way to order any countable set. EDIT: …even if you don't count isomorphic orderings as different.
@AlessandroCodenotti This is true.
@Jasch1 You should learn about ordinals, which essentially measure how complicated a well-ordering is.
That's way too many stars
3
The ordinal corresponding to any finite set is just the number of elements in it, so $\{0\}$ is the ordinal $1$, $\{0,1\}$ is the ordinal $2$, etc
We define $\omega$ to be the order type of $\{0,1,2,3,\dots\}$.
 

« first day (2363 days earlier)      last day (2665 days later) »