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Hello.

Long time no see.

There was a community of mathematicians in a neighborhood. Mathematician X got tired of Mathematician Y fraternizing with the limit points in the neighborhood and spreading gossip. There was no dearth of limit points in the neighborhood! So, what did Mathematician X do? He created a special housing colony in that neighborhood and gifted Mathematician X a home on a Mobius strip.

Hi Balarka....

yeah... been long. Learning the art of teaching these days.

how's life then?

It is challenging to keep attention of non math majors in a math class in the college where I teach!

How are things on your end?

got in a perfect mess. there's going to be an interview here. guys from ISI are coming. if I pass it, they're saying that they'll admit me in.

of course i won't go there to study B-stat, but it won't hurt to do the interview.

yeah, thats right.

Hey, someone told me that ISI Kolkatta people asked a boy a question that is not valid. ISI is a pretty good institute though.

All the best for it!!!

@Manasi I think I know what that is.

an interview question

Someone told me about it. I forgot the content though.

It was an analysis q, AFAIC recall.

well it is on a real valued function f(f(x)) = -x. You can never have a real valued function like that!

where's the fixed point?

well, a function like this will not exist. I could type the entire question here.

let me find a fixed point.

if it's repelling, it won't exist.

well, continuity gets troubled here...

it has to be mono. increasing....anyway, let me type the question

@Manasi I was writing some stuff up about RH lately. interested?

I would be interested to see your writing though I am looking up Algebra these days.

here have a look mathhelpboards.com/math-notes-49/…

the plots are low quality though : PARI is not a graphing calculator.

plus the typos are globally densely distributed.

If f(f(x)) = -x for all x \in R then f is injective& There does not exist a continuous function s.t f(f(x)) =-x for all x in R. Problem is, you never get such a function. If f(R) is proper subset of R then f(f(R)) will not be R. So, f is bijective. If f s discts at all points, then fof is discts and not x. Let f be cts on an interval. If f is injective on an interval, then continuous injection of an interval is monotone, so it cant be monotonically decreasing. This is not a valid question.

@Manasi mmhmm

I'll read your article now.

Hiii... First, let me congratulate you on your page. Good job! You should be in B.Math... and not B.Stat, anyway like as you said - take the interview.

thanks.

it's not a page, btw, just a forum post.

Would not hurt to have your page though.

bleh. not interested.

Did you look up both Number theory and Complex analysis textbooks before you wrote that article?

Cool cool :D

@Manasi I have studied both branches before, so if you mean that yeah

NT and CA are intimately connected

If you mean whether I kept some book opened at the front while writing it, yes, I did. It was Titchmarsh.

yeah.... I meant RH in Complex analysis and Number Theory. I have forgotten all complex analysis now, I guess..... its been a long time since I studied some complex analysis and RH in Number Theory.

IT is good that you have Titchmarsh, I hunted for that book ages ago in India but did not find it....

now, I am not looking up all that... but I will look up some stuff and re read your article......this weekend.

all the best....I got to go now. Nice talking to you.

You would find this page pretty much elementary sites.google.com/site/infinitefieldexplorer/home/assignments

It has some problems.

Bye...

@Manasi there are loads of pirated book collection in the internet. just download it up.

@BalarkaSen : Well!

@Manasi for example, [blah]

@BalarkaSen : Two people whom I know about who work in the area of Analytic Number theory are M.Ram Murthy and Srinivas Kotyada. You can mail them your work to get their feedback on it, that would indeed be nice!

@Manasi I have already met his brother V. Kumar Murty and he suggested some of his books to me, I guess that'd be enough.

Pirated books!!! I dont think I'd be cool with that idea... I download free ebooks though, as long as there are no copyright issues.

Yeah, it is!!1

You're in touch with the right people....keep going!

I have no special work on analytic number theory however. I just read stuffs out.

All of my fiddlings are with algebra these days.

I dont know what to suggest.... if you are talking of papers, take your laptop to ISI and I guess you can access MathSciNet and Science Direct from there.

You can get some decent Analytic Number Theory work from there.

@Manasi I was referring to "mail your work.."

The stuffs I have found out are all about algebra : galois theories, blurdy blurdy blah.

well, all the general stuff that you write, you can send those links to some mathematicians in that area so they can suggest a streamlined approach in understanding that area.

:D

@Manasi I definitely am doing so.

That is good!!!!!

I dont need to suggest anything to you then...

So, are you in touch with algebraists as well?

Nope. I am in contact with geometers and number theorists only.

The uni I go to are filled with geometers.

*is

Hmm... if I get the consent of some algebraists, I will definitely mail you their ids. (as and when I get consent) . My mail id is manasi2006@gmail.com.

Just send me a blank mail. I will store your mail id.

Don't bother, it's not that much important.

I think that people would be glad to be in touch with you.

@Manasi OK

Math is important.

More important is to get along with my number theory.

Yeah, keep going! You know the direction that you want to take.

Though it looks like that you dont need to prepare for ISI interview, I suggest that you do so... and I need to get back to some work.

@Manasi OK, byes, will send you an email when the connection gets a bit better.

=P

Yeah, thanks and bye. Take Care.

Byes

I get it.... too many power cuts and poor internet connection in this Western part of India.

bye

Hi Alex.... sorry , I am just logging out now! Please feel free to share math poems, math jokes and trivia.

Here's a joke I just made up:

What's the opposite of a mathematical cheapskate? A lemniscate :D

^ (y)!

@Khallil Wh yth epurpl eavata r?

It's my default one, @Sawarnik.

@Khallil Bu twh ydi dyo uchang ei ti nth efirs tplac e? :O

I was bored of my Shisui avatar. I changed it to Yusuke Urameshi, but it didn't feel right. I don't feel like decrypting anymore, @Sawarnik. I might head off to play some Zelda.

:(

No, noo.