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  1. Jul 2019
    1. In Hardy's words, "Exposition, criticism, appreciation, is work for second-rate minds. [...] It is a melancholy experience for a professional mathematician to find himself writing about mathematics. The function of a mathematician is to do something, to prove new theorems, to add to mathematics, and not to talk about what he or other mathematicians have done."

      similar to Nassim Taleb's "History is written by losers"

  2. May 2019
  3. Mar 2019
    1. pi = 3.1415 ... e = 2.718 ... Euler's constant, gamma = 0.577215 ... = lim n -> infinity > (1 + 1/2 + 1/3 + 1/4 + ... + 1/n - ln(n)) (Not proven to be transcendental, but generally believed to be by mathematicians.) Catalan's constant, G = sum (-1)^k / (2k + 1 )^2 = 1 - 1/9 + 1/25 - 1/49 + ... (Not proven to be transcendental, but generally believed to be by mathematicians.) Liouville's number 0.110001000000000000000001000 ... which has a one in the 1st, 2nd, 6th, 24th, etc. places and zeros elsewhere. Chaitin's "constant", the probability that a random algorithm halts. (Noam Elkies of Harvard notes that not only is this number transcendental but it is also incomputable.) Chapernowne's number, 0.12345678910111213141516171819202122232425... This is constructed by concatenating the digits of the positive integers. (Can you see the pattern?) Special values of the zeta function, such as zeta (3). (Transcendental functions can usually be expected to give transcendental results at rational points.) ln(2). Hilbert's number, 2(sqrt 2 ). (This is called Hilbert's number because the proof of whether or not it is transcendental was one of Hilbert's famous problems. In fact, according to the Gelfond-Schneider theorem, any number of the form ab is transcendental where a and b are algebraic (a ne 0, a ne 1 ) and b is not a rational number. Many trigonometric or hyperbolic functions of non-zero algebraic numbers are transcendental.) epi pie (Not proven to be transcendental, but generally believed to be by mathematicians.) Morse-Thue's number, 0.01101001 ... ii = 0.207879576... (Here i is the imaginary number sqrt(-1). Isn't this a real beauty? How many people have actually considered rasing i to the i power? If a is algebraic and b is algebraic but irrational then ab is transcendental. Since i is algebraic but irrational, the theorem applies. Note also: ii is equal to e(- pi / 2 ) and several other values. Consider ii = e(i log i ) = e( i times i pi / 2 ) . Since log is multivalued, there are other possible values for ii. Here is how you can compute the value of ii = 0.207879576... 1. Since e^(ix) = Cos x + i Sin x, then let x = Pi/2. 2. Then e^(iPi/2) = i = Cos Pi/2 + i Sin Pi/2; since Cos Pi/2 = Cos 90 deg. = 0. But Sin 90 = 1 and i Sin 90 deg. = (i)*(1) = i. 3. Therefore e^(iPi/2) = i. 4. Take the ith power of both sides, the right side being i^i and the left side = [e^(iPi/2)]^i = e^(-Pi/2). 5. Therefore i^i = e^(-Pi/2) = .207879576... Feigenbaum numbers, e.g. 4.669 ... . (These are related to properties of dynamical systems with period-doubling. The ratio of successive differences between period-doubling bifurcation parameters approaches the number 4.669 ... , and it has been discovered in many physical systems before they enter the chaotic regime. It has not been proven to be transcendental, but is generally believed to be.)
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  6. Nov 2018
    1. Начните с нескольких основных книг, которые изменят ваши представления о математикеЛучше всего «ставит голову» книга «Начала теории множеств» Николая Верещагина и Александра Шеня. Она даст основу для понимания (а в дальнейшем и самостоятельного построения!) логических рассуждений. С нее же начнется и понимание теории множеств, лежащей в основе современной математики.Охватить больше разделов математики поможет книга Рихарда Куранта и Герберта Роббинса «Что такое математика?». Как и книгу Верещагина и Шеня, эту книгу нужно читать внимательно, делая все упражнения. Если первые две книги окажутся сложными, можете начать с моей «Математики для гуманитариев». Ее также следует читать с самого начала, страницу за страницей, не стоит браться за чтение с середины. Она не очень простая, но предварительных сведений и математической культуры не предполагает.Чтобы понять, каким образом математика входит в нашу жизнь, можно прочитать «Кому нужна математика?» Андрея Райгородского и Нелли Литвак или «Математическую составляющую» (сборник сюжетов под редакцией Николая Андреева).

      nice books

  7. Sep 2018
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  9. arxiv.org arxiv.org
    1. Of particular interest are the lower central series: G1=GG1=GG_1 =G, Gi+1=[Gi,G]Gi+1=[Gi,G]G_{i+1} = [G_i, G], i≥1i≥1i \ge 1, and, for a fixed prime number p, the Zassenhaus series (see [7, 8]).

      This is interesting.

  10. Mar 2018
  11. Feb 2018
    1. Let’s use some common units as examples: gram (g), erg (erg), and solar mass per cubic megaparsec (Msun / Mpc33^3). g is an atomic, CGS base unit, erg is an atomic unit in CGS, but is not a base unit, and Msun/Mpc33^3 is a combination of atomic units, which are not in CGS, and one of them even has an SI prefix. The dimensions of g are mass and the cgs factor is 1. The dimensions of erg are mass * length$^2$ * time−2−2^{-2} and the cgs factor is 1. The dimensions of Msun/Mpc33^3 are mass / length33^3 and the cgs factor is about 6.8e-41.
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  13. May 2017
    1. 1st order Eulerian numbers:Permutations

      Annotate math with math!

      $$\varepsilon = \frac{2}{h^3} \int_0^{p_F} \sqrt{p^2 c^2 + m^2 c^4} \cdot 4 \pi p^2 dp=$$

      $$\frac{8 \pi}{h^3} \frac{m c^2}{\lambda^3} \int_0^x \sqrt{1+y^2} \cdot y^2 dy $$

    1. The first review, by C. Hendricks Brown et al., poses the issues raised by the growingrecognition

      $$\varepsilon = \frac{2}{h^3} \int_0^{p_F} \sqrt{p^2 c^2 + m^2 c^4} \cdot 4 \pi p^2 dp=$$

      $$\frac{8 \pi}{h^3} \frac{m c^2}{\lambda^3} \int_0^x \sqrt{1+y^2} \cdot y^2 dy$$

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  17. Oct 2016
    1. Sunil Singh asks us to stop promoting mathematics based on its current applications in business and science. Math is an art that should be enjoyed for its own sake.

      This reminded me of A Mathematician's Lament by Paul Lockhart. This is a 25-page essay which was later worked into a 140-page book. (And Sunil Singh has read at least one of them. He credits Lockhart in one of the replies.)

      It also reminds me of this article on the history of Gaussian elimination and the birth of matrix algebra. Newton's algebra text included instructions for solving systems of equations -- but it didn't have much practical use until later. (Silly word problems are as old as mathematics.)

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  24. Jan 2015
    1. A function like f(x,y)=x+y is a function of two variables. It takes an element of R2, like (2,1), and gives a value that is a real number (i.e., an element of R), like f(2,1)=3. Since f maps R2 to R, we write f:R2→R. We can also use this “mapping” notation to define the actual function. We could define the above f(x,y) by writing f:(x,y)↦x+y. To contrast a simple real number with a vector, we refer to the real number as a scalar. Hence, we can refer to f:R2→R as a scalar-valued function of two variables or even just say it is a real-valued function of two variables. Everything works the same for scalar valued functions of three or more variables. For example, f(x,y,z), which we can write f:R3→R, is a scalar-valued function of three variables.

      f:R^2 \rightarrow R demek f(x,y)=z | Skalar-Değerli f f:R \rightarrow R^2 demek f(x)=(y,z) | VektörelDeğ f

  25. Sep 2013
    1. A computable Dedekind cut is a computable function which when provided with a rational number as input returns or ,

      This definition of computable Dedekind cut is wrong. The correct definition is that the lower and the upper cut be computably enumerable.