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all i have inherited from my family are normie traits
it's sad
I think the (essentially completed) ethnic genocide of people like me has probably influenced my desire to connect with my heritage
rip @balarka
plus like, we make good food and shit
pretty sure I can blame my hurting back on my ancestors.
Well, Eric, if Drumpfolini continues, I'll be at least doubly eliminated — Jewish, gay. Probably triply — math/science.
Me too, @PVAL, and I've been in agony for over a week.
00:01
R.I.P. world
i worry about getting eliminated by myself before the worldwide apocalypse comes
Well I'm certain I'll be somewhat recovered by monday.
only to put more stress on it.
My father has a diploma in math, he's an actuary. But he did really applied math, which is not the kind of math I do voluntarily, so I don't think it influenced me much
stay for the memes, bala
00:03
My uncle has a math undergrad from Harvard where he placed above Math 55. He went on to med school though.
@Balarka it already came
my father taught me a bunch of calculus when i was young. he studied economics though
it was just covered in so many layers of irony that we havent been able to figure out it's all over yet
i guess if i'm not motivated to write i should at least do the homework i have.
Trump is at least an entertaining harbinger.
00:05
@EricSilva Well, there's more to come in this part of the world, I feel. Mass hysteria and massive religious wars are yet to happen
my father taught me not to travel to a different city with a plastic boat
And happen it surely would
i was really being transironic @Balarka u got tooooo realllll mannnnn
interesting @Sha
00:06
I feel like there's probably some pretty good plastic boats out there by now.
If I start seriously thinking about the world I get too depressed @Balarka then i feel guilty about doing something like math
well i don't because i will always be a useless person. i can't do anything about it than to observe, or die before anything bad happens
well that's my cue to leave
Well, Eric, unless you want to campaign for some wonderful new people, I'm not sure what active change you can effect.
lol bye @Mike
00:09
@Ted You can show the uncultured masses logical reasoning with the dark arcane art known as "teaching", but I guess you don't know anything about that.
I guess I'm useless as well, but it feels nice to be not terrible at something, that's why I keep doing maths
@PVAL: I think I had a good effect on lots of students, but who the hell taught the idiots in power? Gross failing.
@Ted i dont have any real delusions about affecting systematic changes, but I think I've experienced firsthand how important like small acts can be in peoples lives (e.g. giving food to the homeless or something)
When I can explain something to others (even if its useless like the math I enjoy) I feel somewhat useful, but I when I applied as an abstract algebra tutor, I wasn't accepted, so rip my usefulness
@TedShifrin I think at least most of the "idiots" in power know exactly what they are doing. The targets of their manipulation are the people you want to educate.
00:12
I am in a position to contribute decent money to foodbanks, things like Southern Poverty Law Center, Lambda Legal ... But I walk by homeless every day in San Diego and it breaks my heart.
@PVAL: Admittedly, at least one of my former students did vote for the idiots. I removed her as a FB friend. But she's the only one I know of.
@MatheiBoulomenos no you aren't, Sr Mathei Boulomenos
Gerrymandering is going to make this very difficult to fix.
538 has the generic ballot as +9 democrats.
That can change, but that should trounce any gerrymandered advantage.
I won't remind you how badly he misled us in the big one.
@Ted the thing that sucks is that homelessness is frequently criminalized in the States. It really doesn't help people escape it. It's a vicious circle that destroys your life if you're not extremely lucky. And the system basically treats the homeless like it's their fault.
00:15
(much as i like him)
Huh
Do you mean Nate Silver?
San Diego is trying to do positive things, Eric, but the numbers are just out of control.
Big hepatitis problems here.
He gave trump like 35%.
Yes, PVAL.
iirc he gave trump a very nontrivial chance of winning compared to most media outlets
00:16
That is isn't misleading at all.
Up until the end he was saying Hillary was a shoo-in.
That was a completely reasonable odds given the data.
What no
There was maybe a point where it was 75/25
but I don't think she ever broke 80 under 538's model.
He definitely got into fights with media people because he gave trump a bigger chance of winning than most others in the media, for the general
Fair enough.
I accept the critique.
and their models have been reasonably accurate at predicting many elections.
00:18
for the primary he totally flopped (but he admitted to it immediately)
Anyway, who knows how pervasive all this Russian s*** is.
Definitely there was a primary where Sanders one with a 1% odds or whatever.
but they have predicted lots of elections and have a good record doing it.
Back to math(s).
Or I could go cook dinner.
tbh the statistics people are doing at 538 is p interesting math
Yes, I think most of us "pure" math people should give stat a lot more respect than we do.
I directed a masters thesis that entailed interpreting a ton of statistical methods/results in terms of geometry and linear algebra. It was fascinating.
i think stats is great (but i like analysis a lot so i guess i already am inclined to like a lot of the math they do)
So was it titled "Statistics - A Geometric Approach?" @Ted
It should have been @Mathei, but it wasn't by me.
@Ted you should write Stats: AGA
I've seen multiple news sources put Trumps internal numbers near election very close to 538's.
00:22
id read the crap out of that
I'd have to learn an awful lot first, Eric.
I have to give a talk in a few weeks in a topology seminar for grad students (maybe a postdoc).
His thesis title was "The Geometry of the General Linear Model."
I had to go look it up.
I think I'm going to talk about Nash equillibria.
Introductory or more advanced, PVAL?
00:24
i think there's probably a big banach space geometry \cap stats intersection
Well it can be whatever.
Grad students interested in topology.
i thought the LA in stat is mostly finite dimensional
@TedShifrin I wasn't thinking to make up my own fonts particularly but perhaps to use the Computer Modern family. :)
Ah ... is there much topology in Nash's stuff? I have never studied it.
oh @TedShifrin i have a question
00:25
There will be later ones and earlier ones. Generally I've done stuff close to my research.
youtube.com/watch?v=Tc-wqJqUCD8 @Balarka could you make an album out of the first 12 seconds of this vid. this is what I want to listen to and look at for the rest of the evening
@Wildcard: I'm not that fond of CMR. I have bought Lucida and New Times Roman. I like them both more.
Well the existence theorem is an application of Brouwer fixed point theorem.
if i want to have another bound can i add it to the $\min$?
@Balarka probably, there's definitely also function spaces tho
00:25
Ah, fair enough, PVAL.
Absolutely, @Meow.
@EricSilva Ah yeah I guess
you mean adding the requirement to achieve that bound, @Meow
@TedShifrin Fair enough. You answered my question, though, in that I can use CMR in LaTeX. Yay!
@Wildcard: That's the default.
i had a friend who used statistics to analyze taylor swifts musical trends over time and it was p quality
00:26
@ShaVuklia :P
@Eric lmao
i'm not joking:l
@Balarka my stats professor said that sometimes you want to estimates functions, which brings banach spaces into play
@TedShifrin Ah, cool. And, where do you recommend starting? I could just use start with the man page....
I learned by referring to books, @Wildcard. It was way before the internet era.
00:27
Hello guys :D
Oooooh.
@Meow: I'm curious. For which problem do you need 3 constraints?
@MatheiBoulomenos I got few last questions about orbit stab theorem then I wont ask about it no more :D
none, i was just wondering :)
@Kasmir sure, go ahead
00:28
:)
In more advanced stuff, it will certainly show up, @Meow.
@EricSilva Pretty well researched.
quality content
So first question , G/ stab (x) , we have elements in G, some of them dont move x at all, those are in stab x , and others do move x so some other element in X , is it the case that the cardinality od stab (x) , and the elements that move x to y , is the same ?
oh god i need to do algebraic topology
00:30
ie, if we had 5 elements in stab(x) , do we have to have 5 elements that move x to y , x to z ect ? @MatheiBoulomenos
Uh a case study on Taylor Swift is um er ah interesting i guess
ok so
I am just mostly impressed by the amount of research put into it :)
@Meow: If you want more practice, try 7, 8, 9, 10, 11
@Kasmir, yes, assuming that x,y and z are in the same orbit of course
00:30
for $\lim_{x\to 0}x^2 \sin \frac{1}{x}$, $\delta = 1$ works right?
Nooooo.
Better do #7 first.
???? let me look through my algebra again
@Balarka i think it's hilarious and quality because of the fact that it goes so far. I super dont care about her music
I can't think of any function (other than a constant) where $\epsilon$ isn't involved in the formula for $\delta$ @Meow
@MatheiBoulomenos can we chat in a room alone ? i get distracted with many ppl writing
00:32
If you prefer that, okay
thanks man :)
True true
Bye Kasmir!
I didn't know you could do that
ill try to invite you , i never do thsi before
00:32
actually
okay so i realized my mistke
so here's what i was doing
$|x^2 \sin \frac{1}{x}| = |x|^2|\sin\frac{1}{x}| \leq |x|^2 < \varepsilon$
idk where i got 1 lmao
I get shook when people don't tell me what my $\varepsilon$s and $\delta$s depend on
Any representation theorists around?
anyways
i assume you dont want me to take $\sqrt{\varepsilon}$ cuz you said not to in the other problem
Right, @Meow, which takes us back to #7.
let me do 7 first
i didnt realize this would boil down to 7
00:36
I should get some sleep now
hmm whats a function less than or equal to $\sqrt{\epsilon}$
Night, i.e., morning, Balarka.
Hint, @Meow: You need to stipulate.
00:50
i have an idea
let me check first
yes i think this is right
$\min(\epsilon, 1)$ maybe
then $|x|^2 < \varepsilon \cdot 1 < \varepsilon$
look good?
@Meow: You didn't ping, so I didn't know you'd answered.
sorry
I was working on my AoPS challenging homework problem :)
homework o..õ
So if $\epsilon\le 1$, $|x|<\epsilon\implies |x^2|<\epsilon$, and if $\epsilon > 1$, then $|x^2|<1^2<\epsilon$. OK.
00:57
or you could apply both conditions
Right. Well done.
$|x| < \epsilon$, $|x| < 1$, so $|x|^2 < \epsilon$
$<$ not $\le$
nope, $<$ everywhere
but what if $\epsilon = 1$?
Yup.
Then both conditions are the same.
00:59
ohhh nevermind
because its $|x| \mathbf{<} \min{\epsilon, 1}$
This is sorta a fun game once you catch on. (Not as fun as projective geometry, but ... :P)
Right.
Do a few more if you want. I'm going to cook dinner. :)
have fun
i also gotta do my real math homework
Right, good idea.
Fun chatting with you.
01:00
blegh, real life quadratic systems
you as well
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Q: Golf a number bigger than TREE(3)

PyRulezThe function TREE(k) gives the length of the longest sequence of trees T1, T2, ... where each vertex is labelled with one of k colours, the tree Ti has at most i vertices, and no tree is a minor of any tree following it in the sequence. TREE(1) = 1, with e.g. T1 = (1). TREE(2) = 3: e.g. T1 = (1...

I struggling a little :(
01:18
So I finally figured out the solution to the determinant tic tac toe game.
It's pretty surprising, actually.
(Recap: player 1 and player 0 take turns filling in either a 1 or 0 (corresponding to their player #) in a tictactoe grid. Player 1 always begins. After it is completely filled, the determinant of the grid is taken and then winning is decided as follows: if det is 0, then player 0 wins. Otherwise player 1 wins. Question: is there a winning strategy? What is it?)
I wonder if $|(fg)'(0)| \le |(f^2)'(0)| |(g^2)'(0)|$ where $f^2(x) = f(x)^2$ not $f(f(x))$
01:47
one problem is that this inner product doesn't have positive-definiteness
ah, that's why this fails
02:17
@EricSilva any progress?
lol
rip me
i have no clue how to do problem 1.3: 13 in hatcher
i dont even really know what it's asking
Huh, strange, I'll check it out
I don't even know covering spaces so maybe not :P
how are you daminarlk
Doing aight, how about you?
tired
02:47
Yeah same
Almost done with my algebra pset, and then I'm gonna just do AT/Smash until I drop
03:00
Hey @nitsua60!
@MeowMix What's delta_0? It crops up somewhere never having been defined. Perhaps mixing up delta_1 and delta_0?
how does my proof look
(well, that was unexpected)
 
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@TedShifrin Look at this sequence construction. Suppose $\sum_n c_n < \infty$. Choose $n_1 < n_2 < \ldots$ such that $\sum_{n > n_k} c_n < 1/2^{-k}$. Now let $b_1 = b_2 = \cdots = b_{n_1} = 1$ and for $ i \geq 1, b_{n_i + 1} = b_{n_i + 2} = \cdots = b_{n_{i+1}} = i+1$. Then $\sum_n b_n c_n$ converges as $\sum_k k/2^{-k}$ converges.
 
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$$Q_8 \star Q_8 \cong D_8 \star D_8$$
basicaly I sat in a lecture about group theory and they talked about this amazing fact about central products
@LeakyNun Hmm, usually I would indicate which central product it was by having the shared subgroup be a subscript
I mean, the direct product is also a central product
NB: Not understanding what f(x)==(x<y) means shows how terrible I am at boolean algebra
f : N -> Bool
boolean strings for some reason, I am not very intuitive to them. Perhaps I need revision on classical logic
@TobiasKildetoft the center
@LeakyNun I know, since that is the necessary one for the isomorphism in this case
 
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10:09
When is the intersection of principal ideals principal? That should be true in UFDs but I think it fails in general
does that statement need axiom of choice to hold in general, I vaguely recall?
10:33
Does anyone know what happened to the website crazyproject.wordpress.com ? It used to contain solutions to Abstract Algebra by Dummit and Foote, but has now disappeared. I found the site really helpful.
Are 'Dedekind completeness' and 'Least-upper-bound property' synonyms?
@Bysshed My god! its no more? I feel so sad.
I was planning using it for next semester.
@Bysshed I have screenshots of almost all answers.
@Silent They are both equivalent statement of the completeness axiom. This axiom comes in many forms, see the wikipedia page en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Completeness_of_the_real_numbers.
If you have some time I recommend this article of the subject. Their equivalence is shown on page 9.@Silent
@Bysshed Thanks!
10:49
@Silent I would say that they are only synonyms when applied to a specific case, namely the reals, where they are both just true statements.
@TobiasKildetoft So, for what sets they differ?
@Silent For one thing, there are sets where only one of them even makes sense
I am not sure I know an example where both make sense and they differ
@TobiasKildetoft Will you please give such example?
@Silent Ohh, never mind actually, it seems that Dedekind completeness can also be formulated just using an ordering
They might actually be equivalent in general in that setup then, sorry.
@TobiasKildetoft, ok, no problem. Thanks.
10:54
If you don't mind taking a look at this, please explain to me the "There are only finitely many rational numbers p/qp/q in that interval with 1/q≥ϵ1/q≥ϵ" part in the first definition, I understand it well, but I fail to see its place within the proof.
::Talking on phone:: No, that room will remain star-free no matter what!
11:40
somehow under Z16, the multiplicative subgroup <5> is equal to the additive coset 1+<4> and is even isomorphic
@LeakyNun What do you mean by isomorphic?
12:14
5x5 = 9, 9x5 = 13, 13x5=1
5+4=9, 9+4=13, 13+4=1
@TobiasKildetoft
@LeakyNun But how can two things with different types of structure be isomorphic?
one is a group, the other is not
12:37
does "isolabel" exist?
user84215
The second week of the Abstract Algebra Course will start at 9:30 GMT on Saturday, October 21, 2017 in this room.
[Random]
The desire to build a Metropolis algebra
Let $C$ be the class of all algebraic structures. Then the metropolis algebra $M$ is an infinite sized algebra whoose subalgebra are all elements in $C$
[Super random]
Let $S$ be a sunset
Then a finite sunset is one that occured a finite number of times
An infinite sunset occurs indefinite number of time
Now
@Secret Have you heard of category theory, it sounds similar to your 'metropolis algebra'
@Bysshed I don't know if category theory can represent nonassociative algebras since functors and categories are associative under composition
@Secret Well, that starts to get into the territory of operads
Though as far as I recall, not all algebras are algebras over some operad (possibly if those algebras form a variety they are, but I never really did enough of that stuff to know this)
12:53
hmm, a very brief read of operads looks very general and will cover a lot of associative and lie bracket kinds of algebra
right, there is an operad for "associative" and one for "Lie"
It seems that the associative law of the objects determines what kind of associative or nonassociative algebra we will get
but that's as far I can comment about it so far, anything more in depth I need to read up the category theory book
On an unrelated note, I really wish I can formally define a dedekind finite sunset so I can use it as a valid running gag
13:08
@EricSilva I think you should draw the universal cover, and quotient that by all 3-length paths
Well, I don't mean 3-length paths. But it's not clear what it looks like even if I do the construction I have in mind
Hi @Alessandro
how is it going?
Not much, just got some food
13:28
So I want to describe the ideals in $S^{-1}A$ where $S$ is some multiplicative subset of $A$
Let $J_s:A\to S^{-1}A$ be the inclusion $a\mapsto\frac a1$, I want to show that all ideals of $S^{-1}A$ can be constructed as $(J_s(I))$ for some ideal $I$ of $A$
So if I have $J\subseteq S^{-1}A$ an ideal I guess that $(J_s(J_s^{-1}(J)))=J$, but probably I should first work out what does $(J_s(I))$ look like for a given $I$
@Alessandro Right, so if for some $a \in A$ and $s \in S$, $a/s \in J$, you must have $a \in J_s^{-1}(J)$
So I think $(J_s(I))=\{\frac is :i\in I,s\in S\}$
13:43
That's correct, yes
Which would tell you, as $(J_s(a)) \subset (J_s(J_s^{-1}(J))$, $a/s \in (J_s(J_s^{-1}(J))$
So the establishes $J \subset (J_s(J_s^{-1}(J))$ I guess
I am thinking about how to write $\Bbb{Q}$ as a tree, but then I kinda lost count on how many nodes each branch have
@BalarkaSen Right, and the other inclusion is the easy one
One thing about $\Bbb{Q}$ that caught my attention is how the repetends are actually finite strings, meaning that whatever that branch in the tree has only finite depth
@Secret If you could enumerate $\Bbb Q$ as a tree, I'm pretty sure you'd need $\Bbb Q$ to be uncountable.
13:48
hmm...
but is such uncountable tree have a simple kind of structure e.g. a line with n nodes and each nodes having finite number of branches?
Well, no, I guess I am thinking about the boundary of the tree
@Secret Sorry, it wasn't clear to me what you were doing.
yeah, the boundary will be uncountable since it will correspond to the irrationals I think
@BalarkaSen So back in months ago the chat was discussing about finding uncountable chains in the rationals and reals
Boundary of any tree which is not valence 2 is uncountable.
and then we dug up an MO link telling us how to find dense linear order for set of any cardinality by basically putting two branches for each element in the set as if they are nodes
This caused me to wonder whether the infinitely decreasing sequence in the rationals can be captured as a tree somehow
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Q: Uncountable chains

Adam$P(\mathbb N)$ = power set of $\mathbb N$. $A \subset P(\mathbb N)$ is a chain if $a,b \in A \implies$ either $a \subseteq b$ or $ b \subseteq a$ That is we have something like this: $$\ldots a \subseteq b \subseteq c \subseteq\ldots$$ where $a,b,c \in A$ are distinct. We can show easy enough...

^ 1st ans of above are the details
In number theory, the Stern–Brocot tree is an infinite complete binary tree in which the vertices correspond one-for-one to the positive rational numbers, whose values are ordered from the left to the right as in a search tree. The Stern–Brocot tree was discovered independently by Moritz Stern (1858) and Achille Brocot (1861). Stern was a German number theorist; Brocot was a French clockmaker who used the Stern–Brocot tree to design systems of gears with a gear ratio close to some desired value by finding a ratio of smooth numbers near that value. The root of the Stern–Brocot tree corresponds to...
hmm found something
So the rationals can be represented as a tree where all branches have finite length (because all rationals have terminating repeated fractions)
Therefore, if we insert one branch of $\omega$ length, then we will get to an irrational
14:45
A well ordering of the rationals can also be established as follows:
Much better than the usual zig zag mapping, there are no repeats
This is reasonable because each level of this tree there are only finite number of nodes
15:02
Actually screw it, infinitely decreasing chains...
@Balarka I ended up drawing it without any trouble
My problems were mostly me trying to resist doing any work tbh
16:02
@LeakyNun Sup leaky =p
@LeakyNun hope you did not forget about the examples i sent you :D
I left it open in a tab
@Eric I guess the picture looks like 6 triangles joined vertex-by-vertex in a circular fashion so you have a hexagon in the middle
Or at least locally so
doing it tonight @KasmirKhaan
@LeakyNun okay :D
The 6 triangles are alternately the aaa and bbb triangles
16:12
Am almost done with orbit stab theorem and sylow =p
do we have any number theorist here
I am wondering why for Z16 for the powers of 5, multiplying by 5 is the same as adding by 4
I guess it trivially follows from binomial theorem [(4+1)^n = 4n+1] and i wonder how to generalize it
it’s really intriguing
any odd number can be written as 4n+1 or 4n+3
that might be usefull for what you are doing :D
i don’t think it is
16:27
@Balarka yeah I just drew a square with lines going zip zap zoom and it was done
coolio
Holidays !
I can finally do maths
16:44
Yay
16:56
@Secret Look at this one as well https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calkin–Wilf_tree
Enumerate the rationals the same way, going across the rows
Notice: The denominator of each one is equal to the numerator of the one after it
Look at the section on Stern's diatomic sequence
0, 1, 1, 2, 1, 3, 2, 3, 1, 4, 3, 5, 2, 5, 3, 4, …
To enumerate the rationals (the same enumeration gotten from the Calkin–Wilf tree), take each one divided by the one after it:
0/1, 1/1, 1/2, 2/1, 1/3, 3/2, 2/3, 3/1, 1/4, 4/3, 3/5, 5/2, 2/5, 5/3, 3/4, …
@LeakyNun Likely something to do with the subgroup $\left\lbrace 1, 5, 9, 13\right\rbrace = (5) \subset \Bbb Z/(16)$. These are all elements congruent to $1 \bmod 4$ and so $4k \equiv 4 \bmod 16$ when $k \in (5)$, just an observation
17:37
Hey everyone. I have a very superficial understanding of adS_n spaces. Can you please suggest me some good math notes on these spaces?
18:24
@TedShifrin Hello Ted :)
18:49
So, any neat solutions for $y$ for
$$2e^{-2yc^2}<\frac{x}{yc^2}$$
I can say $0<x<1$
19:10
Hi chat
@TobiasKildetoft Yo
@TobiasKildetoft Hello :D
19:49
hi
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