Posted on 11/27/2007 7:00:02 PM PST by snarks_when_bored
I made one little (obvious) comment and my purportive mental superiors lost all confidence in their own equations...
LOL!
Gee, can Viscardi’s parents please share with us exactly how they brought him up so he would be a math genius? It’s all environment, right? /sar
Anybody who has ever spent any time around mathematically gifted people knows that environmental factors have very little to do with their pure ability, although study does hone their skills. Plato knew this 2,500 years ago. In Book VII of Republic (526b), Socrates engages Glaucon in the following exchange (my underline):
"Do you see, then, my friend," I said, "that it's likely that this study [calculation] is really compulsory for us, since it evidently compels the soul to use the intellect itself on the truth itself?"
"It most certainly does do that," he said.
"What about this? Have you already observed that men who are by nature apt at calculation are naturally quick in virtually all studies, while those who are slow, if they are educated and given gymnastic in it, all make progress by becoming quicker than they were, even if they are benefited in no other way?"
"That's so," he said.
Yes, Gauss, too, was a well-adjusted supreme genius...
Math ping!
The task does not require showing what it converges to. Maybe you can assume the worst case of cos(whatever) = 1, and show that sum(1/n) converges; this eliminates worries about x as well.
“Though past rosters have included female students, Math 55 is a fraternity. Students rush. Eleven become pledges, and they are initiated with problem sets.”
Why do they have to dump this libtard garbage in here? This is not a grouping based on sex, it is a grouping based on ability. Can’t have that, though, can we?
Acceptance and advancement based on merit are anathema to liberalsim/socialism. Self evident here...
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“This solution was not known before,” said Peter Ebenfelt, Viscardi’s adviser and a math professor at the University of California San Diego. “The Dirichlet problem is a very old problem; it’s been around since it was formulated by Dirichlet in the 19th century.””
Wow, just WOW. Kid solved a problem that has been around for almost 200 years! PhD level? This is so far beyond most PhD (and frankly post doc work) that it’s scary...
Prove M-Theory.
you can be sure that if he spent all his life watching tv and chasing after women, he wouldn’t get very far.
You have to have “rage to master.” I know I have to work on this trait...
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Sum[Cos[x*n]/n]... where n=1,...,Infinity
This sort of sum shows up, for example, in studies of the Gibbs Phenomenon (see Many sine functions for graphs).
Why do they have to dump this libtard garbage in here?
I didn't get that from the article.
It wasn’t in most of the article, mostly just the part I quoted which was clearly castigating the male only character of Math 55. That is why it stood out as out of place PC dripe to me.
While Harrison ultimately chooses to remain in the class, such conferences motivate several more students to drop, including the only two females: Cook, who had looked forward to taking the class, and Laura P. Starkston ’10.“The problem was that I wasn’t prepared to think that abstractly,” Cook says. “Gaitsgory pointed it out to me in our private conference. Eventually I just got the picture.”
The final course drop forms are dutifully submitted, finalizing the class roster: 45 percent Jewish, 18 percent Asian, 100 percent male. The tribe has spoken.
There is no PC moralizing here, just statement of facts.
We were only discussing pure ability, not motivation and work ethic. You’re right about the need for total immersion in the work.
Sum[Cos[n]/n]=?, where n=1,...,Infinity.
Hint: more generally, x must be strictly bounded between 0 and 2Pi.
You are correct. How long did it take for you to reason this out?
uhhh......42
Wolfram bump. Absolutely fascinating book. I own it, haven’t read all of it yet. Wrote a program to test the automata and got the same results he shared.
The closest thing that we had like this at West Point was the math program that I was in— MA153-154
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Really? Thats like sophomore level math?
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