Recent content by benjamincarson

*just chiming into figure out which college he's speaking of* Waterloo maybe?

I'd probably choose Sophie Germaine over Emmy Noether, but that's me.

Taken from Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abstract_algebra I won't be encountering it for a few more semesters, but from what I hear it's pretty intense. I can't wait:smile:

I don't see how he was "factoring x from 0 ". Anyway, It wouldn't be hard to construct a proof that shows that the equation x^{x}=x is only valid for 0 and 1. So... 0^{0}=0 1^{1}=1 Fiddle-dee-do

mathelord, this is all pretty trivial. What is it that's confusing you? If you "have nothing and you raise it to nothing", then you don't have anything to exponentiate! You don't "eventually" get nothing, it was always nothing.

I saw a thread like this some time ago, but thought I'd start another just for fun. List your top 5 favorite mathematicians. These don't necessarily have to be who you feel are the "best", but just the five that you have the most respect for or interest in. Here's my five: 1. Gauss 2. Euler 3...

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Is this an equation that needs solving, or an identity that needs verifying?

Unless I'm missing something, your given value for cos x is incorrect. Any value of the cosine function is in a way "stuck" between -1 and 1. Use a calculator and take the cosine of any degree/radian measure you wish, it will always be between -1 and 1.

Quote from Family Guy, I believe.

This makes four by my count...please kill this thread.

Can you cite a reference please, I've heard nothing of this. Bigplanet401: Don't let Juan's attitude toward string theory affect your own. While it may not turn out to be the "theory of everything", a lot of good can come out of it, as Dimitri has already illustrated. I guess Juan would...

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This must be some trick question because it is ridiculously simple: She gets nothing to the market. If Corey Camel must eat a banana each mile on a 1,000 mile trip, she would've eaten 1,000 bananas by the time she made it to the market place, which was everything she was carrying.