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Q: Sum/Product of two natural numbers is a natural number

Charles CarmichaelI wanted to prove that the sum and the product of two natural numbers is a natural number. Intuitively it's clear to my why that is true, however I couldn't prove it. So our lecturer first defined what an inductive set is. Then he defined the Natural numbers as the intersection of all inductive ...

I have added (set-theory) tag, since the question is about set-theoretical definition of natural numbers (as the smallest inductive set) based on Axiom of Infinity. — Martin Sleziak Feb 1 '15 at 11:40
@Martin: I've seen $\Bbb N$ defined in analysis as the smallest inductive set of $\Bbb R$. Seeing how $0$ is not a natural number here, I am very suspicious that your edit was truly in place. — Asaf Karagila ♦ 34 mins ago
(But maybe four years later Charles can clarify what was the meaning here.) — Asaf Karagila ♦ 34 mins ago
@AsafKaragila Fair point, I have no problem with retagged in some way. In any case, perhaps we can move further discussion elsewhere - so as not to leave here too many comments that are actually unrelated to the question. — Martin Sleziak 11 secs ago
@Martin: First let's hear it from the OP. — Asaf Karagila ♦ 48 secs ago
 
12:16 PM
Would be a suitable tag for various questions related to constructions of natural numbers?
Hi @Zacky, nice to see you here.
When you have time, please check whether is a suitable tag for your question on meta: MathJax issue while using SE from phone.
Having questions correctly tagged helps to find past discussions - if the same issue reappears in the future.
BTW which of the two apps is no longer supported? Is it or ? (As I don't use MSE on phone, I always forget.)
 
 
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Hi, I am using android
I have responded there, but I am unsure.
 
@Zacky Sorry if I was too annoying. All I wanted to try is to get the question properly tagged.
> The official mobile apps are no longer under active development, so you may encounter some bugs or glitches. New feature requests or bug reports for minor (non-critical) bugs may not be handled for a long time.
Which does not seem too optimistic...
 
 
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No worries at all! It wasn't annoying. Thanks for your help!
 
5:05 PM
A new tag created by John Cataldo. I see a previous occurrence of .
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Q: How would conformal map from $\Bbb C\backslash\{z\in\Bbb C : Im(z)=0, Re(z)\le 0\}$ to the unit disc $\{|z|<1\}$ look like?

John CataldoHow would conformal map from $\Bbb C\backslash\{z\in\Bbb C : Im(z)=0, Re(z)\le 0\}$ to the unit disc $\{|z|<1\}$ look like? Riemann's theorem guarantees the existence of a conformal mapping $f:\Omega\mapsto D$ where $\Omega=\Bbb C\backslash\{z\in\Bbb C : Im(z)=0, Re(z)\le 0\}$ is simply connecte...

In mathematics, a conformal map is a function that preserves orientation and angles locally. In the most common case, the function has a domain and an image in the complex plane. More formally, let U {\displaystyle U} and V {\displaystyle V} be open subsets of R n {\displaystyle \mathbb {R} ^{n}} . A function f : U → V ...
 
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Q: Do we want an [umvue] tag?

ClarinetistThe umvue tag has one question on it. Do we want to keep it going or not? For those of us who are not familiar with UMVUEs (uniformly minimum-variance unbiased estimators), the long story short is that they are (in my opinion) the culmination of a statistical inference course when it comes to p...

 
As you can see above, there is a new tag called . Created by Hendrra.
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Q: Calculating UMVUE for Poisson distribution

HendrraI've started to learn methods of finding UMVUE distribution. I found some nice examples on this site. I got stuck while evaluating UMVUE for Poisson distribution for a parametric function $g(\theta)$. How did the author get $$\sum_{t=o}^\infty \frac{h(t) n^t}{t!} \theta^t = e^{n \theta}g(\th...

In statistics a minimum-variance unbiased estimator (MVUE) or uniformly minimum-variance unbiased estimator (UMVUE) is an unbiased estimator that has lower variance than any other unbiased estimator for all possible values of the parameter. For practical statistics problems, it is important to determine the MVUE if one exists, since less-than-optimal procedures would naturally be avoided, other things being equal. This has led to substantial development of statistical theory related to the problem of optimal estimation. While combining the constraint of unbiasedness with the desirability metric...
 
 
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@MartinSleziak I could imagine being a useful tag, but after reading the tag-excerpt, it seems that this is intended to be in the scope of ....?
> A conformal structure is one that captures the idea of angles, but not lengths. Conformal geometry is the study of geometries with conformal structures, with special focus on transformations that preserves the angles (while possibly changing lengths). Examples of conformal transformations include the Mercator projection from cartography, and the Möbius transformations of the Riemann sphere.
This reminds me of good old times - Willie Wong and t.b. are editors of that tag-excerpt: math.stackexchange.com/posts/49902/revisions
 

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