So I'm reading this book by Munkres and he uses both $X$ to denote the class of objects of a category and then talks about (X,Y) being ordered pairs of objects. Is this a typo and he meant something like $\mathcal{X}$ for the class of objects? What's the conventional letter here?
can you give some tip to me? i have to find number of solutions to linear equation x + y + xy = n as f(n) where solutions must be prime and non negative
Do you think we can express the closed form of the integral below in a very nice and short way?
As you already know, your opinions weighs much to me, so I need them!
Calculate in closed-form
$$\int_{1/2}^1 \frac{\arctan\left(\frac{1-x^2}{7 x^2+10x+7}\right)}{1-x^2} \, dx.$$
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@Agawa001 Despite its usefulness, many times it is not able to make things easier and get the simpler forms. And I don't have the last Mathematica version, maybe that one does better.
@Chris'ssistheartist i studied some heuristics used for integrating, with all that known, i still cant think there is another effective way to find the primitive apart a human brain
@AlecTeal While it is difficult to accurately judge the frequency of such things. The number of instances where someone is fired for teaching biology (evolution in most cases) is most likely fairly small. Such things may seem more common because when they occur it is often picked up by news agencies.
I have heard of a handful of instances where school administrations ban the teaching of evolution because of a belief in creationism, but admittedly I can't recall any instances where a teacher was fired because of it.
Maybe someone can help me with a really stupid Simplex misunderstanding (refreshing long lost knowledge). en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simplex_algorithm#Simplex_tableaux says that the "c" line has negated values. And since Simplex maximizes the value, to minimize, I need to negate the whole target function.
So, 2*negate=nothing, so for a minimizing function I should be able to insert the c values unchanged? But why it is negated in the example en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simplex_algorithm#Example_2 again? Thanks
prioritizing religion and conjugal life over maths isnt bad (it is disrecommended thu), but if you shove up religious stuff to "young fresh" brains intentionally, thats worse, it is even a crime
@DanielFischer $\hat{a}(\phi) : = \phi(a)$ for all $\phi \in \mathcal{M}_{\mathcal{A}}$, where $\mathcal{M}_{\mathcal{A}} \subset \mathcal{A}^{*}$ is the subspace of all linear multiplicative functionals.
@Balarka: Interesting — I never learned those theorems in Euclidean geometry; to me, they are squarely beautiful classic topics in projective geometry.
@Agawa001 There is a inner search within each human being for God. I saw often people saying that we are born atheists as if someone from other planet came here and spread the religion. The need for finding the truth is real.
In some notes that I am reading there is the following:
$$(\delta s)^2=(\delta x)^2+(\delta y)^2 \Rightarrow \left (\frac{\delta s}{\delta x}\right )^2=1+\left (\frac{\delta y}{\delta x}\right )^2$$ When $\delta x \rightarrow 0 $ we get $$(s'(x))^2=1+(y'(x))^2 \Rightarrow s'(x)=\sqrt{1+(f'(x...
The key to a good question is to let people know quickly if they can help. I can't help, but I had to read all the way through the question before I figured that out. People who can help might give up earlier. So you waste the time of people who can't help, and lose some people who might be able to help. So make clear the context and the question as early as possible to get the best help here.
I doubt my questions are of the type someone can read them and then quickly answer them, at least major part of them. This doesn't mean they are not good.
@ThomasAndrews I know, but how one can quickly determin it if it's about a more difficult question? I myself meet tons of questions where I'm not sure I'm going to reach an end.
But if you don't do this, people who can answer will skip, and people who can't answer will waste time. The goal is to get the best help as an asker. I'm not trying to determine if the question is "good" from a broader sense, I mean "good" as in "I'm likely gonna get the help I need."
@ThomasAndrews Sometimes questions are hell hard, that's not questionable, but I agree you can determin the others to help you if you show much effort on it, at least those that wanna see more than the text of the problem. I work on the problems I like in either case, with or without effort shown.
Do you actually read all the way through questions that start off unclearly and where you can't even quickly figure out the domain of the question? @Chris'ssistheartist The risk for the askrt is the loss of possible answerers.
Is there a chance that it's useful in intersection theory? You take two lines in $\Bbb P^2$ : they intersect iff the two corresponding points have a common pencil in $(\Bbb P^2)^*$
I know this story only because at Berkeley they had (maybe still have) wire mesh models showing the actual procedure ... and so we all learned about the history.
@ThomasAndrews Here is a different thing, that is 1) a clear statement of the problem and 2) the effort shown. I agree that without a clear statement of the problem I also have difficulties and I might not spend time on that question, agree, but it also depends on how bad that statement looks like. I might ask for more information or I might drop it. With the effort shown I don't seem to have problems.
Is there a chance that it's useful in intersection theory? You take two lines in $\Bbb P^2$ : they intersect iff the two corresponding points have a common pencil in $(\Bbb P^2)^*$
I'm not talking about work shown. I'm talking about clarity. I never talked about work shown, but certainly, no work will also get people to skip your question.
@ThomasAndrews Oh, didn't we have a tough conversion here some time ago about the work shown? :-) That's since you said you never talked about work shown. Anyway, maybe I misunderstood you at that time.
@ThomasAndrews Interestingly, some people have begun working on introducing the duplicate aspects of tournament bridge into mahjong. Though in current implementations, it takes a lot of logistics
I don't know mahjong at all, so I was unaware it had a random element. Is it the draw of the tiles? I vaguely think they do this in Scrabble tournaments, as well, but I don't know for sure, even though I read a whole book about Scrabble tournaments.
@ThomasAndrews mahjong (the 4-player game, not the solitare variant commonly found on computers) is in many ways like a card game, based on putting together "patterns"
Bridge, as a game, has some really interesting questions. Since it is a partnership game, it is partly about communication and information. (Theoretically, you only communicate with the words of your bids and the cards you've played - because of this, it is very easy to "accidentally" cheat at bridge, because you can take vocal intonation into account, or the fact that your partner hesitated before playing.)
Hi, any tips on how to find $P(A>0,B>0)=\frac12 P(AB>0)=\frac12 P(A>0|B>0)$ or $\int_0^\infty \Phi(\pm b/\sqrt{3})db$ where $A, B$ are standard normals with correlation coefficient $\pm\frac12$?
Let $E$ be a closed set of real numbers, and $f: E \to \mathbb{R}$ be continuous. I need to show that there exists a continuous function $g: \mathbb{R} \to \mathbb{R}$ such that $g|_{E} = f$. I was given the hint to take $g$ to be linear on each of the intervals of which $\mathbb{R}\backslash E$...
If anybody here has a more useful answer than the one already up there, and could provide me with it, that would be great. I can't really wait 2 days for a bounty.
Let $f(x)$ be a real-entire function such that for all $x>0$ we have
$f(x) > 0$, $f'(x) > 0$ , $f '' (x) > 0$.
And also $0 < D^M f(0) < D^{M-1} f(0)$.
Let $0<T<1$ and $n$ a positive integer.
Let $g(x,n) = \frac{f(x)}{x^n}$.
Let real $x_0(n)$ satisfy
$x_0 (n)> 0$
$g ' (x_0(n),n) = 0$
Let $r...