When you have your paper Möbius strip cut it along the middle, but first try to guess how many rings you'll get and if they'll be linked together or free @sophie
Now that I can finally twist the ordinary moebius stripe mentally into the sudanese one, it should not be too hard to visualise the real projective plane
@Alessandro More interesting questions for procrastination: If you have a knot or a link in R^3 (embedded circle), an orientable surface (2-manifold with boundary) which has that as the boundary is called a Siefert surface. Can you see what the Siefert surface of the Hopf link (google for picture) is? What the Siefert surface of trefoil knot is?
http://math.stackexchange.com/questions/2052269/has-a-unique-solution-for-the-elliptic-equation-over-special-case-mu-lambda Is my question is that difficult? No one is interested in my quesiton TT
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The whole picture is not quite clear to me, but it intersects $x_1 = 0$ and $x_2 = 0$ because that's what happens in P^2: any two lines intersect at a point
Can you give examples of proofs without words? In particular, can you give examples of proofs without words for non-trivial results?
(One could ask if this is of interest to mathematicians, and I would say yes, in so far as the kind of little gems that usually fall under the title of 'proofs wit...
What does an intersection sign between spaces of functions mean? I keep seeing this lately but I don't know what it means! For example, let $\Omega$ be a bounded domain in $\mathhbb{R}^2$. What does $u \in C^1(\Omega) \bigcap C(\overline{\Omega})$ mean?
The roots of the Chebyshev polynomials of the first kind are the so called Chebyshev nodes which are used in numerical analysis (polynomial interpolation more precisely), but I don't know anything about Chebishev polynomials apart from that @Astyx
The point of the Chebishev nodes is that they don't have some convergence issues when used for interpolation that other nodes (i.e. equally spaced ones) have
@Alessandro Yes they limit the runge effect, but historrically why did Tchebychev study these particullarily ? Is it because of their norm is minimal ? How did Tchebychev (or was it even him ?) "know" the roots of these polynomials would give the "best" approximation when interpolating ?
@Alessandro My question is more about their appearance than what their use is (I know the proofs of why they do approximate well, but I want to know what motivated their study in the first place)