Recent content by Jademonkey

I'm going to have to think about the combinatorial approach a little more. I may see if one of my old professors minds looking at it with me. Anyway, here's the results from 10 million trials (each) in java, in case anyone cares. The first number represents the number of dice taken, the...

Oh wow, you are absolutely right. I should know better than placing an order on something that has no order! Thanks. Should I be summing the multinomial coefficients on the lowest seven instead, then? Is there a simple identity for that? I think I will do this, but the mathematics...

I was playing a pencil and paper role playing game with some friends, and some questions came up about the what is most important to increase to get better at a skill. There are two values for each skill- the basic value and your training value. The basic value ranges from 1-7 and determines how...

It's never too late. My mom went back to school while I was in high school and got her masters in physics, and she's now going back (again) for her PhD in Materials Science. Before she applied to her PhD program, she took a graduate level course and proved to the professor she was more than...

I'm going to echo Tac-Tics on this. Going back through calculus won't help you a whole lot, except maybe a couple of concepts that are covered in vector/multivariable calculus. Those are really linear algebra concepts anyway, and you'll learn them more thoroughly in this class. Also, having...

I'm actually in the math building of my university right now and just picked it up from the library across the hall :) It looks to be well written, but I'm a little worried about the lack of solutions in the book. I guess I can search for the specific questions or ask here. Thanks again!

Thanks a bunch! I'll look into that.

I'd say to set it up in matrix form and check to see if the determinant is non-zero or row-reduce and if there is no row of all zeros at the end, it's linearly independent. Edit: If matrices aren't allowed, show that for a system with constants multiplied by your u, v and w coefficients, each...

I won't be able to take a course in topology before I have to take the mathematics subject test of the GRE. I have the Princeton Review guide, but I'm looking for a little stronger of a foundation. Is there a good book introductory book for this purpose? If so, what sections should I read?

If I understand what you are asking, the link I posted explains it. Read "Example 1" where he shows how using the ordinary chain rule fails. He goes on to show that Ito figured out that he could use an algebraic identity and the quadratic variation of Brownian Motion to derive a new chain rule...

I'm taking an undergrad course on stochastic processes right now, and all of our course materials are online. They aren't necessarily the best, in my opinion, but you may find them useful. If his notes themselves aren't useful to you, he usually includes very specific references so you can...