Recent content by cipher_42

3 for me! Those pesky f's are hard to keep track of!

Marcus, thanks for the links to those papers. I've been looking for a good source of info on LQG at about that level.

Thanks for the link; just what I was looking for!

Congrats!

So after buying a laptop to take with me for a semester abroad, I now have two computers and I wanted to do something fun with one of them. Hence, I'm thinking about putting some sort of UNIX-based OS on my laptop (I had my desktop dual-booting Fedora Core 3 and XP for a while, but that didn't...

Quality of teaching is definitely a big factor in how hard a class seems. Teaching aside though, I think analysis was the one that clicked the least with me. Each subject has a different way that you have to approach the proofs, a different set of skills, a unique mindset. For me, getting the...

You have the right idea, but you just need to be watch out for a few small things. First of all: Remember the Chain Rule: \frac{d}{dx}(sin(2x)) = 2cos(2x) Secondly: Be careful with your minus signs, especially with going from step 2 to step 3. Finally: Once you get all that out...

Amen to that! I'm currently reading Crossroads at Twilight, which is #10 in the Wheel of Time series. Next on the list is Crime and Punishment; I bought a copy a year ago and it's time to finally get to it (don't worry though, I read The Brothers Karamasov last year). And I own a copy of Don...

I always thought that my favorite running shoe said it best: ASICS - Anima Sana In Corpore Sano (sound mind in a sound body) I do the same! Though, occasionally when I'm really stuck, I just clear my mind while running and focus on the run and nothing else. Then when I come back to the...

I actually used to run varsity cross-country for a Division-I program until an unfortunate series of events (I can't quite remember if it was a power series or not :wink:...sorry couldn't resist) that converged to two broken legs. However, I still run semi-competitively and I train sometime...

Haha, well said, Lisa! Honestly though, I couldn't tell you if that is the case since most of them usually have their nose buried in a book, so I can't tell:smile:

Good call :blushing: :blushing: I always try to remember it from the letters in INteger...but occasionally when I'm not thinking (which is surprisingly often) I pick the wrong two letters in InTeger :-p

The 'dimension' type is an slightly out-dated way to declaring arrays (vectors, matrices, and higher dimensional arrays). What type of numbers are stored in the array depends on how the name of the array was declared. For example, if I type: real A dimension A(10) real B dimension B(2,2)...

That is a though one to get your mind around, no? I remember when I took an Introduction to Mathematical Reasoning class we covered this, and it took me forever to figure out why that was the right definition. Try thinking of it this way: We want to decide whether or not the following...

Saketh, Your logic here is fine; you definitely have the right mental image in your head, and that's where the proof has to start. But, just like when proving that R is homeomorphic to (-1,1), you have to have an explicit function to take it to the level of rigor that you want. In proving...