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Mmathwonk replied to the thread Undergrad Why ##a^0=1##?.This has several excellent answers and I cannot improve on them. I just have this persistent nagging voice wanting to express this...
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Mmathwonk replied to the thread Job Skills Physics Careers: Expectations vs. Reality.@Surf_and_Sky: Have you talked to anyone at the U (in Salt Lake)? That is a very dynamic place, with lots of very bright people...
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Mmathwonk replied to the thread Undergrad I don't understand Dedekind cuts.Re: post #5. Here is the usual proof that every set has more subsets than elements. If S is any set (e.g. the set of rational numbers)...
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MTalking a bit more with ChatGPT about this subject, I think I got a sort of understanding breakthrough, after understanding two key...
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Mmathwonk replied to the thread High School Abel Prize awarded, 2026, to Gerd Faltings.Thank you for drawing attention to this. Many years ago, one of my friends told me as a joke on himself, that he had been referee for...
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Mmathwonk replied to the thread Is a Prof Failing 3/4 of the Senior Year Physics Class Normal? (Stat Phy).by the way, if you decide to try this class, the fact that you know his source for the lecture material and for the exams, should make...
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Mmathwonk replied to the thread Is a Prof Failing 3/4 of the Senior Year Physics Class Normal? (Stat Phy).The way you describe it, the prof sounds very unreasonable indeed, but we have not heard his version. And at some point you should...
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Mmathwonk replied to the thread Grade Inflation at Harvard.To illustrate what a la-la land the current grading practice at Harvard inhabits, the Harvard college student handbook already defines...
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MGrade inflation is a problem everywhere : https://www.gradeinflation.com/ Personally, I think it's detrimental for students sense of...
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Mmathwonk replied to the thread Grade Inflation at Harvard.That article was interesting. Some statements should be taken with salt however, e.g. the suggestion that grade inflation is related to...
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Mmathwonk replied to the thread Grade Inflation at Harvard.I think this is a difficult problem. As a student at Harvard in the early 1960’s, when maybe 15% of grades were A’s, I got a lot of...
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Mmathwonk reacted to martinbn's post in the thread Graduate Trivial fiber bundle vs product space with
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I am starting to think that the question of the thread is not about fibler bundles, but whether isomorphic objects are to be considered...