@BillDubuque I don't think the word "inconsiderate" is impolite. It means that the user was "acting without consideration" and was "thoughtless of others".
@Chris'ssis Hello :) after you suggested me this wonderful book, I downloaded it and I am on the 6th chapter of Interesting Integrals. I have a few more chapters to finish off :) I was wondering what's the next step after this book?? Where do I go after this ?
@TheArtist Yeah. Together we would have published an incredibly crazy awesome book. Well, sometimes it's hard to explain to some the things I see in the future.
@TheArtist I wanna be on top, not for the sake of being on top but as a consequence of my research in the area of integrals, series and limits. I love very much what I do, it gives a meaning to my existence, I don't fell like a body without soul, but toally fulfilled. :-)
@Chris'ssis Maybe publishing your OWN book/work is the correct step :) and maybe that's why life didn't let you share the work with someone else, becoz you deserve to be on the top :)
@Chris'ssis Great people publish great things by themselve :) Super Great people publish By themselves and without any reference :)
@Chris'ssis having your own book , and I remember seeing while on the chat that you don't have a mathematical background....isn't that crazy awesome enough?
@TheArtist My mom said I went crazy. She said: "Who will buy your book? You have no background in mathematics.". :-) Yeah, it's going to be the greatest challenge to me so far! :D
I'm only interested in the book itself, not in money (of course, I have nothing against gaining money). The book is meant to feed my spirit, not my pocket!
@TheArtist The amazing thing is that after a while all these things flow so naturally, I mean you can easily create very nice problems with very nice solutions ... It's like riding the bike, once you learn riding, you continue to go, things simply flow naturally.
The interesting thing is that no one from my family knows (understand) the things I do, neither my relatives, friends. Sometimes my work is subject to all kind of jokes! :-)
@TheArtist Both. I still hope to go to grad school.
@Chris'ssis Yes, but that's not the point here. The point is that I just cannot function well enough in daily life, even though I can write things here.
@TheArtist By the way, if I were not here just now, you would have deleted without me seeing.
@TheArtist Nope. I never trivialise people's problems, and I hope they don't trivialise mine either. Every problem is unique, so it is best not to compare and say this is worse or that is worse.
@JasperLoy I wasn't really comparing. At least it gives the idea that it's not only me or you in the world who's in probs/feel alone (as Chris sis said)
@JasperLoy No she loves her parents too, and they would die if she does something that they don't like
@TheArtist I see. If they die because of that, I am afraid they don't really love her. This is my honest opinion. There is too much non-love in the world being passed off as love.
@JasperLoy I understand :) I don't even like to have my personal stories online even while being anonymous, that's why I tried to delete all of those....
Thanks @PedroTamaroff. I'll let someone know tomorrow night if it's still going on. I'm suspicious because it started immediately after I flagged someone's post in chat, which got said person temp-banned.
@PedroTamaroff, do you see Doorknob's starred post on the side? Scroll up just a few lines from that. System says around 3:26 AM, which I assume is UTC.
@KajHansen In general, I would just recommend you keep your flags private. They are private for a reason, which I would guess you know is to avoid any personal grudges between users.
I've dreamt in code yet again!!! I may have even lucid dreamt!
@Kaj: the script will reverse it. Stop being anal bro, its happened to me before
@Jasper this time I was about to write down the precise algorithms but as I woke up I saw a text from my ex, and sadly I could only remember a vage idda. This is dtill a start!
His voice tone is slightly bothersome, and borderline aggressive. Maybe I need to watch the whole video to avoid being put off.
It seems the media has inflated his persona, as usual. =/
> At age nine, while playing with shapes, Jacob built a series of mathematical models that expanded Einstein's field of relativity. A professor at Princeton reviewed his work and confirmed that it was groundbreaking and could someday result in a Nobel Prize.
That's what TED says.
> Both the Daily Mail and Time stories included a quotation from by Scott Tremaine, a physicist at the Institute for Advanced Study, who had been contacted by Mrs. Barnett to comment on the young Barnett's physical ideas. Tremaine, after viewing the now deleted YouTube video, commented in an email provided by Mrs. Barnett: "I'm impressed by his interest in physics and the amount that he has learned so far. [...]
> The theory that he's working on involves several of the toughest problems in astrophysics and theoretical physics. [...] Anyone who solves these will be in line for a Nobel Prize." That's what Wiki says.
I'm disappointed that TED has grown to be so sensationalist.
I think one of the greatest challenges is to be an ordinary person and manage to achieve great things like the ones achieved by the known geniuses. I consider myself just an ordinary person (letting apart the things that were said in chat about me).
@Huy In general people must be appreciated for what they are, not for what they aren't (I think). I might meet in you in the real life and tell you I don't wanna discuss with you about math because I don't like your face. It the same thing with the voice and tone.
"I'm actually an undergraduate researcher studying turbulence using the Navier-Stokes equation (one of the 7 unsolved problems). We are attacking the problem by computationally modeling turbulent shear flow, and let me tell you, this is a heck of a problem. I'm on the programming side of the project, so I'm not working as much with the math, but this is some pretty fascinating stuff. So yes, there is a lot of math still out there to be solved, and the problems listed above all have interesting sub-problems as well"
@Huy what she is really saying is: She favors simpler topologies over others.
@Chris'ssis: To you maybe, but if anyone sends me a video of some speech (that I don't know anything about), the most important thing will be the first impression, which will be the speaker's voice (tone).
@Chris'ssis: I know the important thing about a speech is not at all exclusively the speaker's voice, but should be the content. But the voice is part of it, and if it annoys me so much I can't even listen to the content, that's really not gonna help.
@PedroTamaroff: I've never seen that expression before. Where did you read it?
@PedroTamaroff: Most of the times, reddit is a terrible place to discuss maths, unfortunately. There has only been one incident where there was actually a thread about maths being productive, that I've witnessed.
I ask ex out ---> ex blows me off ---> I show indifference ---> she texts me three days later ---> by then I've already found a date, no cares given, i've moved on, FREEDOM
@DanielFischer ah ! that sounds nice ! :) have you ever upvoted any of my questions ? but I guess you can't do that for me .. now that you are the law-man in the town :D (I mean mod)
@Chris'ssis no that's not what I meant ! phrases like 'requires a special approach' freaks me out and drives me out of my natural train of thought (I am very easy to distract)
@Pedro a bachelor's in math. I basically have a degree in applied already, but i'm just completing the pure sequence now and taking some extra Comp sci classes
my special field are inequalities, in our math circle in Leipzig we solved hundreds of such problems and two students were at the last IMO in south africa with a silver medaille — Dr. Sonnhard Graubner2 mins ago
@Chris'ssis he's a nice guy but there are hundreds of people like him around the world who didn't have the same amount of support as he had (he was given a full tuition scholarship)
@DanielFischer I know what I need to do now ! Start a bounty that would take (-50) from me .. ask a question and see if I can get a +25 and accept an answer before it gets more votes =P
@DanielFischer ah ! right ! but I don't like downvoting or getting downvoted ! :( M.Se accounts starts with a $+1$ ... and that is the root of my trouble ..
@PedroTamaroff Please respect the many different viewpoints on how to use MSE to teach, e.g. a professor (JDH) wrote "the policy of encouraging weasily half-answers to questions that have been deemed to be homework, consisting of obscure hints only, amounts to an annoying policy of encouraging bad answers here at math.SE, and I am completely opposed to it". Deeming one viewpoint "inconsiderate" of others is not mediating.
Let $P$ be a prime ideal. Suppose that $R/P$ has no nonzero nilpotent elments.
Show that $R/P$ is integral domain.
What I did :
WTS : $(a+P)(b+P)=ab+P=0+P$ implies $a+P=0+P$ or $b+P=0+P$.
but it means that $ab \in P$ implies $a \in P$ or $ b \in P$. The nilpotent condition means that $a \n...
@BillDubuque Although I agree that poor users misuse "hint" style, it is very biased to talk about "obscure hints", or of a policy that "encourag[es] bad answers".
Maybe the answer does not have to be that detailed - you can always refer to Lam's book for the auxiliary result. (Or if you can find it somewhere else.)
Google returns some reasonably looking hits, like this blog.
@PedroTamaroff The point is not to argue that specific viewpoint, but to give an example of the many viewpoints, in particular one on the opposite end of the spectrum, (and held by a very talented teacher).
In any case, Martin helped me out. I did my own searches before but didn't get anywhere because I wasn't familiar with the correct terminology to search for. But I am now!
@BillDubuque At any rate, I'm a moderator, but that doesn't mean I cannot give my (albeit disputable) opinion on site policies. I oppose to you limiting my freedom of choice of words just because I am a moderator. In particular, I would never reprehend a user for telling another user he's being inconsiderate, if that's he's honest opinion.
It is well-known that the PDF of two continuous RV of the form (X Y/X+Y) can be obtained by min(X,Y). If we have another RV, Z, (X Y/X+Y+Z) How we can the PDF of this form?
Oh, I just investigated further, it appears you gave me an np complete problem @N3buchadnezzar, apparently the algorithm I gave is sometimes not optimal.
@PedroTamaroff They take up space, but so what? One just reads the next message if he is not interested. I don't see any reason other than for aesthetics.
@PedroTamaroff It is your duty as a moderator to be respectful of all viewpoints. Writing off as "too biased" those viewpoints you disagree with is very poor mediation.
@BillDubuque There's a difference between being respectful, and not giving your opinion. You seem to think that us moderators should approve of anyone's viewpoint and pat them in the back. I can give my opinion, and still be respectful of all viewpoints. As a moderator, I am entitled to my opinion, and I am entitled to saying something is biased.
@PedroTamaroff I was intending to start studying next year, but it seems I might not be able to do so now, so maybe I will go look for a part time job until I am ready to study.
@DanielFischer Someone who teaches teachers how to teach in my country said that the empty set is the same as the set containing the empty set.
@Jasper The point is that the more effort a mod spends attempting to sincerely understand the diverse viewpoints in the community, the more hope they have of helping devise successful compromises. Immediate dismissal of some viewpoints as "too biased" etc is not very fruitful in that regard.
@DanielFischer What's the term for a map between Hilbert spaces - not necessarily surjective - that preserves the inner product? I just used 'orthogonal' in an answer but it's not right.
I guess maybe 'isometry onto its image' but that's ugly.
Let $P$ be a prime ideal. Suppose that $R/P$ has no nonzero nilpotent elments.
Show that $R/P$ is integral domain.
What I did :
WTS : $(a+P)(b+P)=ab+P=0+P$ implies $a+P=0+P$ or $b+P=0+P$.
but it means that $ab \in P$ implies $a \in P$ or $ b \in P$. The nilpotent condition means that $a \n...
