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So I was thinking and I was wondering if we could have a set of vectors that spanned just the unit sphere, and nothing else beyond that. So, if we replace euclid's 5th postulate to give us spherical geometry, a line is a circle on the surface of some sphere. If we have two perpendicular vectors...

Wow! There have been some good posts here. Let me give a quick thought expirament. It is known to be possible to to computer stimulations of various phenomenon. For example water going into a container. What is done is programming Newtonian physics into the computer and seeing what happens with...

Since this is about my analysis class, I think this is the right place to put this. So, I'm a couple weeks into my class in Mathematical Analysis, and the whole class is a cure for insomnia, and I don't even have insomnia. The textbook my professor assigned looks like they liked baby Rudin, but...

It's a good book, and it's meant to be read in a linear fashion. Don't complain about it if you skip parts of it. Oh, and for the prerequisites you don't need any of that nonsense. If you understand the rational number system, the binomial theorem, and some previous knowledge of trig functions...

If they don't want to be just called by their first name, they should honestly sign what they want you to call them. If they don't like that you called them what they signed as just put "Dear sir or madam" in the next email as your opener. Or you could say that a name is just a reference, what's...

Calculus and rigor do not belong together. Baby Rudin should suffice for all your calculus needs. It has problems that require a deal of ingenuity that even Rudin admits in the preface. I think that qualifies for your examining thoroughly from every angle. I will tell you this, if you understand...

You're not saying ISIS wants to go after anything outside of Iraq, are you?

If you want a secure browser, Lynx is perhaps the best choice, but that might be too secure for you. I always say that the only purpose of internet explorer is to download other web browsers(ie usually comes with windows). I wouldn't trust ie for security and I wouldn't trust google to keep its...

Thank you guys. @DH Wouldn't you need to understand all these low level machine constructs if you were to make a high level language. It just seems that abstracting away for lower level concepts will cause your computer to not run as efficiently as if you ran everything on lower level concepts...

I'm looking for resources that discuss how a high level language works from a fundamental level. I'm not looking for something that just says if you put this in your program, this is what will happen. I looked at your programming resources page, and that is all it gives lend to. I'm looking for...

The identity map is from P(A) to S. Anyways, if we define f(a)= 1 if a\inC and f(a)=0 if a\notin. Then, \forallC\inP(a) and \foralld\inS, we define CRd if f(a)=d(a). Wouldn't it suffice to show that the relation R is a bijective function?

@LCKurtz, I didn't assert that it is just a bijection, but that it is an identity map. Perhaps, this is not the standard definition of a subset, though.

Well, could we just define a subset of A by assigning a "0" or "1" to each element aεA? Then the set of all subsets would be the set of all functions from A to {0,1}.

Homework Statement Let S be the set of functions from a set A to {0,1} Prove that |P(A)|= |S| Homework Equations P(A) is the power set of A The Attempt at a Solution I have no idea how to do this... If A is finite then A has n elements, and we can write out the elements from one to...

The binomial theorem can be of great help in analysis if you are trying get some estimates, and you have something in the form of (a+b)n. I know it's used several times for this reason in baby rudin. Practically, it can be a lot faster to evaluate the coefficients of each term then by just...