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euler

on a somewhat related note...any scientific calculators available on mobile phones?...i think that would be sweeeeeet

look up the prime number theorem. it draws a connection between the natural log and the distribution of prime numbers. also, mathetical beauty doesn't necessarily have to be succinct...at least not to me. i think a lot of beauty can come from the results, even if the process that leads to...

it might be: Chases and Escapes: The Mathematics of Pursuit and Evasion by Paul J. Nahin. but it came out in july, so i don't know if it's the book you're talking about. hope this helps

if you define the function, you just have to put f(x) as the first argument. like f:=x-> x^2; plot(f(x),x=-10..10,y=-10..10); that would plot the parabola x^2 with a window of -10 and 10 on the x-axis and the same on the y. the help file for these programs are confusing, imo

plot(f(x),x=-10..10,y=-10..10); will plot f(x) between -10 and 10 on the x-axis, and -10 and 10 on the y-axis. there's other arguments you can insert in the code, but that is just a basic plot.

hey...maybe that's why I'm asking questions!...duh!

no...didn't nod off in class...it's community college, they even skipped the whole section on infinite series...go figure but thanks, that makes sense now. i just didn't get that it's a consequence of switching the order of integration. it wasn't immediately obvious to me.

i was looking through a book and came across a double integral that was split into the product of two single integrals. it was int (x^n)(y^n ) dxdy split into (int x^n dx)(int y^n dy) i just finished a course in multivariable calculus(it was by no means thorough), and i didn't know that...

haha...that's sweet!

house of the rising sun? first song i learned how to play! i do believe it is Am - C - D - F - Am - E along those lines...it's been awhile since I've played it

i guess it kinda depends on what style of music you want to examine. a lot of songs are based one the I - IV - V progression found in blues(something you probably already know), but a thing to notice is that the II - V - I progression(found a lot in jazz music) can be that same structure...

i don't get it !

hey man...that's a killer quote hahaha

someone probably already posted this, but: Two mathematicians are in a bar. The first one says to the second that the average person knows very little about basic math. The second one disagrees, and claims that most people can cope with a reasonable amount of math. The first mathematician...