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  1. Started by ajb,

    How would you define geometry as to encompass all it has become? For me, something like the study of locally ringed spaces would be good. It includes manifolds, supermanifolds, schemes and NCG's. To quote Manin, What are you thoughts?

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  2. Started by moonflower,

    SO i dont have the radius or the volume but i have an estimate of the density 14.5 10³kg m-3 Im really uncertain of the formula needed to A. get the radius without the volume and vice versa. PLEASE HELP! Thanks in advance! Merged post follows: Consecutive posts mergedsome how must use the values above to get my answer?!

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  3. Started by 1123581321,

    hi, Was wondering how we can be sure when rearranging an equation/formula, that the worked out formula gives us the correct answer, since the formula is the basis for our interpretation...

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  4. In algebraic topology there is something called a chain complex. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chain_complex My question is: Why is the composition of any two consecutive maps [math]d_n \cdot d_{n+1}[/math] equal zero?

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  5. Started by SarK0Y,

    Good Time to All, Amici. i got following math problem: to split up number array into two subsets (S1, S2) where X[t] & Y[t] are multiplications of numbers of S1 & S2 respectively, t is index of iteration with condition: |X(0)-Y(0)|==MIN(0), |MIN(0)-(X(1)-Y(1))|==MIN(1), ..., |MIN(n-1)-(X(n)-Y(n))|==MIN(n). for example, let's take an array: 2, 5, 7 then: first pair is {2, 5}, {7} ==> X(0)==2*5==10, Y(0)==7, MIN(0)==3; second is {2, 7}, {5} ==> X(0)==14, Y(0)==5, MIN(1)==6; third is .. ------------------------------------------------ Thanks a lot in Advance.

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  6. Started by alejandrito20,

    i need to evaluate [math](A'e^{nA})'[/math],where [math]A=kte |\phi|[/math],with [math]\phi[/math] a angular coordinate between [math](-\pi,\pi)[/math] upon a line integration over a closed path along the coordinate angular [math]\phi[/math].......¿why the result is zero? ....' is the derivate on [math]\phi[/math]

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  7. Started by ajb,

    We have a metatheorem (due to Urs Schreiber?) Metatheorem A “red herring” need not, in general, be either red or a herring. So, so simple examples. 1) A manifold with a boundary is not a manifold. 2) A supermanifold is again, not a manifold. 3) Noncommutative geometry considers "spaces" that may or may not be commutative. 4) A Grassmann number is not really a number (as a mathematical object used in counting and measuring). and so on. Anyone suggest some other "nice examples"?

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  8. Started by alejandrito20,

    If the integral is [math]\int^{\pi-\epsilon}_{-\pi+\epsilon}d\theta[/math]. where [math]\theta[/math] is a angular coordinate. In the riemman integral , i dont understand if tetha follows the path grenn in figure 1, or [math]\theta[/math] follows the path red in figure 2.

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  9. Started by alejandrito20,

    Hello. I understand that [math]\frac{d|x|}{dx}=\theta(x)-\theta(-x)[/math] and then [math]\frac{d^2|x|}{dx^2}=2\delta(x)[/math]. But i DONT UNDERSTAND why when [math]\phi[/math] is a angular coordinate, then [math]\frac{d^2|\phi|}{d\phi^2}=2(\delta(\phi)-\delta(\pi-\phi))[/math]

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  10. Variance is a measure of the variation in a data set, defined as Σ(y-mean(y))^2/(n-1). Is there a statistical term for the following calculation: data set time data 1 10 2 11 3 -22 4 34 5 -45 6 56 7 67 8 -78 variation between adjacent data v=(datum(t+1)-datum(t))^2 square root of v to obtain positive values of variation=v^(1/2) Σv^(1/2) median(v^(1/2))

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  11. Started by Quetzalcoatl,

    Hi, Recently, I've been looking into the subject of information. After seeing a video on fractals I figured that a fractal is, in some sense, a dimension with missing pieces. The missing pieces can then be interpolated, if one likes, though without adding any new information. The example I've been looking at is the function f:R->R, f(x)=sin(x). It seems obvious that f being a periodic function would contain less information than some other function, say, sinc(x) (defined at zero to be equal to the limit). It also seems logical that the function f(x)=0 would have even less information than both. You could say that whenever there is less information spread …

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  12. Started by crownedconquern,

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3eXifzGOfDA Georg Cantor From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation, search Georg Cantor Born Georg Ferdinand Ludwig Phillip Cantor March 3, 1845(1845-03-03) Saint Petersburg, Russia Died January 6, 1918 (aged 72) Halle, Germany Residence Russia (1845–1856), Germany (1856–1918) Fields Mathematics Institutions University of Halle Alma mater ETH Zurich, University of Berlin Doctoral advisor Ernst Kummer Karl Weierstrass Doctoral students Alfred Barneck Known for Set theory Georg Ferdinand Ludwig Phillip Cantor (March 3 [O.S. February 19] 1845[1] – January 6, 1918) was a German mat…

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  13. Started by crownedconquern,

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2nAycC7sGVI Educate yourself to a higher learning.... Merged post follows: Consecutive posts mergedand no,i wont baby step it for you.As you see,i done shown you all the greats and how they learned what they learned.... So.... I should be happy to know what i do.maybe if some tried,they can also feel that.Be lucky,i could have charged a trillion dollars because lets be real,the art alone in my image proves im the greatest artist ever.Now add every other knowledge and wisdom. Its weird how one image can show you everything....Hmmm why are we paying for knowledge then?

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  14. Started by blackhole123,

    Never mind, delete this please.

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  15. In the commutative diagrams page in wolfram, what does the [math]\phi_{i_{0}}[/math] above the arrows mean?

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  16. Started by mar,

    Given two spheres touching at one point, would that be a surface? I think not, but I don't know how to begin to search for the proof. I thought maybe proving it isn't Hausdorff, but I'm not clear on how to go about it. Anyone can help? Sorry about the bad English, not my mother tongue...

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  17. Started by gib65,

    I'm currently taking an online course in mathematics. One of the subjects is about interesting properties that come out of certain number series (or number patterns). Right off the bat, I'll spell out the purpose of this thread so you know where the OP is leading: I'm wondering if we can say that there's something "special" about these number series just because they bear certain interesting properties, or should we say (or prove) that there's always going to be interesting properties of any arbitrary number series no matter what it is? As an example of a number series for which an interesting property emerges, take the following: 1 + 3 = 4 1 + 3 + 5 = 9 1 +…

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  18. Started by mehran,

    If [math] f(x) = x^3 + x + 2[/math] and [math]f(a) = 9[/math] then: Calculate [math]f^{-1}(-5)[/math] at "a". This is the question that i'm thinking of it but i can't solve it at all! Does anyone know that how i can get to the answer?

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  19. Started by royal,

    this forum is very good for mathematics.

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  20. Started by Abstract_Logic,

    I'm currently reading this book called Set Theory and the Continuum Hypothesis, written by Paul Cohen, which is a model-theoretic investigation of the topics. I'm trying to rediscover the proof of Gödel's Completeness theorem for myself, but I'm kind of stuck on certain details of the proof provided in the book. In the preface, the author mentioned that he did not "polish up" the final draft of the book, so many important details are left out. Although it is written for people with little to no background in propositional logic, the book assumes that one has a background in abstract mathematics, namely in Model theory. I'm only an undergraduate student not yet knowled…

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  21. Started by Abstract_Logic,

    Let [math]X[/math] consist of four elements: [math]X= \{a, b, c, d\}[/math]. Which of the following collections of its subsets are topological structures in [math]X[/math]? [math]1. \emptyset , X, \{a\} , \{b\} , \{a, c\} , \{a, b, c\} , \{a, b\};[/math] [math]2. \emptyset , X, \{a\} , \{b\} , \{a, b\} , \{b, d\};[/math] [math]3. \emptyset , X, \{a, c, d\} , \{b, c, d\}?[/math] Are they all topological structures in X? If they are not, why are they not?

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  22. Started by Nate Lourwell,

    Hey, all. I don't have much background yet in pure mathematics. In the meantime, I'm wondering if it would make any sense in set theory to make the set [math]kaph_{0}[/math] = {[math]n \in \mathbb{N}[/math] | [math]\aleph_{n}[/math]} and then make [math]\wp[/math]([math]kaph_{0}[/math]) = [math]kaph_{1}[/math], analogous to how [math]\wp[/math]([math]\aleph_{0}[/math]) = [math]\aleph_{1}[/math]. If that's possible, could it be continued without bound, next with [math]yodh_{0}[/math] = {[math]n \in \mathbb{N}[/math] | [math]kaph_{n}[/math]}? Merged post follows: Consecutive posts mergedI learned that a correct way to describe [math]kaph_{0}[/math], if there is one, wou…

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  23. Started by alan2here,

    http://img693.imageshack.us/img693/3950/calcw.png http://rapidshare.com/files/325308950/operators.xlsx.html http://www.filehosting.org/file/details/91934/operators.xlsx Above is an image of a spreadsheet and two link to the spreadsheet itself. My thoughts are based on the way that multiply can even if not the most efficient way of performing the calculation can be thought of as repeated add, and power repeated multiplication. Although there are differences beyond that and other calculations just as simple and multiply that don't have names. Columns C and D of the spreadsheet show the descriptions of increment and decrement. Thease add and subtract 1. I do…

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  24. I've just begun learning about category theory. I would love to share ideas with anyone else interested in the topic. Perhaps anyone can recommend some good learning material for it? I've started an introductory book on it, a rather small book of about 200-250 pages. I've finished the first section on general categories, subcategories, pre-categories, morphisms, and other things. I enjoy studying things at the most general level, like category theory, model theory, universal algebra, metamathematics; it intrigues me. I'm more of a generalist than a practitioner, and personally, being a man of pure ideas, I don't believe in anything merely because of its practical…

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  25. Started by Proteus,

    If the frequencies within one, two and three standard deviations of the average are known (34,1%, 13,6% and 2,1%), can one calculate the frequency from a certain value? More specifically, I want to know if, if it is true that Ashkanazi Jews are 10% more intelligent, how much percent is gifted. Normally, that's 2,1%. If the average IQ in Ashkenazis really is 110, then the Bell curve shifts 10 points and 13,6% should have an IQ from 125 to 135. Subtract the frequency of IQs from 125-130, add the other 2,1%, and you have the frequency of giftedness. How do I know the frequency of IQs from 125-130? And please, no paranoid ragings about racialism here. I'm not Jewish m…

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