Motivational Quotes and Stories (for students)

Motivational Quotes and Stories (Life / Education / Math)

Just to share some motivational quotes and stories, including those that are relevant to life, education and math. Do also check out Motivational Books for the Student (Educational).

If you have any other quotes / stories that you like, do post it in the comments! 🙂

1) “Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.”

Winston Churchill

This applies especially to students in higher education (e.g. Junior Colleges in Singapore), where it is quite common to “fail” an exam by getting below 50%. Do not despair, and continue to study hard, and you will achieve success eventually.

“There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.”
― Ernest Hemingway

Do not compare yourself with your classmates, everyone is unique. Focus on improving yourself day by day.

Kirby tried his qualifying exam again, on the same two topics. “This time, they said, ‘You passed,’” he says. “They didn’t say it with any enthusiasm, but they said, ‘You passed.’” His committee recommended that Kirby move into some other field than topology.

But Kirby was not one to be deterred by discouragement from his teachers. He waited until their backs were turned, so to speak, and identified a topologist — Eldon Dyer — who had been away when Kirby took his qualifying exam. Kirby kept going to Dyer with questions, and “at some point it sort of became obvious that I was his student,” Kirby says. “And he told somebody later on that he realized at some point or other he was stuck with me.”

(https://www.simonsfoundation.org/science_lives_video/robion-kirby/)

Inspirational story from Rob Kirby (famous mathematician) on how to ignore discouragement, even from teachers. This is applicable to students in Singapore who are sometimes told by teachers / school to drop certain subjects (e.g. drop Higher Chinese / drop A Maths), where the motive may not be purely in the student’s interest. Sometimes the reason that the school wants the student to drop the subject is to protect the school’s ranking in the exams / boost principal’s KPI etc. In this case, the student should follow his own judgement on whether to drop the subject.

“Everyone is No. 1” Motivational Song by Andy Lau.

Beautiful Lyrics (Chinese):
我的路不是你的路
我的苦不是你的苦
每个人都有潜在的能力
把一切去征服

我的泪不是你的泪
我的痛不是你的痛
一样的天空不同的光荣
有一样的感动

不需要自怨自艾的惶恐
只需要沉着
只要向前冲
告诉自己天生我才必有用

Everyone is NO.1
只要你凡事不问能不能
用一口气交换你一生
要迎接未来不必等

Everyone is NO.1
成功的秘诀在你肯不肯
流最热的汗
拥最真的心
第一名属于每个人

我的手不是你的手
我的口不是你的口
只要一条心
暴风和暴雨
都变成好朋友

不需要自怨自艾的惶恐
只需要沉着
只要向前冲
告诉自己天生我才必有用

不害怕路上有多冷
直到还有一点余温
我也会努力狂奔

Everyone is NO.1
只要你凡事不问能不能
用一口气交换你一生
要迎接未来不必等

Everyone is NO.1
成功的秘诀在你肯不肯
流最热的汗
拥最真的心
第一名属于每个人
5)

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.

Winston Churchill

Galatians 6:4-6Easy-to-Read Version (ERV)

⁴Don’t compare yourself with others. Just look at your own work to see if you have done anything to be proud of. ⁵You must each accept the responsibilities that are yours.

Curious Inequality: 2^p(|a|^p+|b|^p)>=|a+b|^p

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This inequality often appears in Analysis: $2^p(|a|^p+|b|^p)\geq |a+b|^p$ , for $p\geq 1$ , and $a,b\in\mathbb{R}$ . It does seem quite tricky to prove, and using Binomial Theorem leads to a mess and doesn’t work!

It turns out that the key is to use convexity, and we can even prove a stronger version of the above, namely $2^{p-1}(|a|^p+|b|^p)\geq |a+b|^p$ .

Proof: Consider $f(x)=|x|^p$ which is convex on $\mathbb{R}$ . Let $a,b\in\mathbb{R}$ . By convexity, we have $\displaystyle\boxed{f(ta+(1-t)b)\leq tf(a)+(1-t)f(b)}$ for $0\leq t\leq 1$ .

Choose $t=1/2$ . Then we have $f(\frac{1}{2}a +\frac 12 b)\leq \frac 12 f(a)+\frac 12 f(b)$ , which implies $|\frac{a+b}{2}|^p\leq\frac{1}{2}|a|^p+\frac{1}{2}|b|^p$ .

Thus,

$\begin{aligned}|a+b|^p&\leq 2^{p-1}|a|^p+2^{p-1}|b|^p\\ &\leq 2^p|a|^p+2^p|b|^p\\ &=2^p(|a|^p+|b|^p) \end{aligned}$

Z(D_2n), Center of Dihedral Group D_2n

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Question: What is $Z(D_{2n})$ , the center of the dihedral group $D_{2n}$ ?

Algebraically, the dihedral group may be viewed as a group with two generators $a$ and $b$ , i.e. $\boxed{D_{2n}=\{1,a,a^2,\dots,a^{n-1},b,ab,a^2b,\dots,a^{n-1}b\}}$ with $a^n=b^2=1$ , $bab=a^{-1}$ .

Answer: $Z(D_2)=D_2$

$Z(D_4)=D_4$ .

For $n\geq 3$ , $Z(D_{2n})=\begin{cases}1&,\ n\ \text{is odd}\\ \{1,a^{n/2}\}&,\ n\ \text{is even} \end{cases}$

Proof: For $n=1$ , $D_2=\{1, b\}\cong\mathbb{Z}_2$ which is abelian. Thus, $Z(D_2)=D_2$ .

For $n=2$ , $D_4=\{1,a,b,ab\}\cong V$ , the Klein four-group, which is also abelian. Thus, $Z(D_4)=D_4$ .

Let $A=\{1,a,a^2,\dots,a^{n-1}\}$ , $B=\{b,ab,a^2b,\dots,a^{n-1}b\}$ . Clearly elements in $A$ commute with each other.

Let $a^k$ be an element in $A$ . ( $0\leq k\leq n-1$ ). Let $a^lb$ be an element in $B$ . ( $0\leq l\leq n-1$ )

$\begin{aligned}a^k(a^lb)=(a^lb)a^k&\iff a^kb=ba^k\\ &\iff a^kba^{-k}b^{-1}=1\\ &\iff a^kb(bab)^kb=1\ (\text{here we used}\ bab=a^{-1})\\ &\iff a^kb(ba^kb)b=1\\ &\iff a^{2k}=1\\ &\iff k=0\ \text{or}\ n/2 \end{aligned}$

I.e. the only element in $A$ (other than 1) that is in the center is $a^{n/2}$ , which is only possible if $n$ is even.

Let $a^kb$ , $a^lb$ be two distinct elements in $B$ . ( $0\leq k< l\leq n-1$ )

$\begin{aligned}(a^kb)(a^lb)=(a^lb)(a^kb)&\iff ba^l=a^{l-k}ba^k\\ &\iff ba^{l-k}=a^{l-k}b \end{aligned}$

By earlier analysis, this is true iff $l-k=n/2$ . Each $a^kb\ (0\leq k\leq n-2)$ is not in the center since we may consider $l=k+1$ , i.e. $a^{k+1}b$ . Then $l-k=1<n/2$ . (since $n\geq 3$ ). $a^{n-1}b$ also does not commute with $a^{n-2}b$ for the same reason.

Therefore,

For $n\geq 3$ , $Z(D_{2n})=\begin{cases}1&,\ n\ \text{is odd}\\ \{1,a^{n/2}\}&,\ n\ \text{is even} \end{cases}$

Hardest JC Maths Paper (Prelims/Promos)

Just heard from some sources that AJC (Anderson Junior College) Math papers are considered the most difficult of all JCs, beating RI/HCI in terms of difficulty.

Do check out this page on how to calculate JC Ranking points.

Quotes:

AJC might have the most challenging Math papers, but that doesn’t equate to having the best math results. Other schools do better (RI/HCI)

From: http://forums.sgclub.com/singapore/ajc_good_jc_386546.html

H2 Maths this year was quite easy for both paper 1 & 2. It is definitely no where of the standard of AJC Maths Exam Papers, which are famously known for very challenging questions.

From: http://doggy94-in-air.blogspot.sg/

Group Theory in Rubik’s Cube & Music

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Mathematician’s life begins at 40

André Weil, the French mathematician, when still a student in University at Ecole Normale Superieur before WW 2, started the “Bourbaki” Club with the intention to change all Math Teaching using modern math from Set Theory.

Shimura was the Japanese mathematician, together with Taniyama, discovered the conjecture upon which Fermat’s Last Theorem was finally proved by Andrew Wiles in 1993/4.

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André Weil told the Japanese professor Goro Shimura that Prof GH Hardy talked nonsense, mathematics is not necessary for young men below 35.

Recent math breakthroughs are accomplished by men above 40, because Math needs “Logic as well as Intuition” – both take lengthy research, perseverance and team efforts by other pioneers, as illustrated below:

http://m.scmp.com/lifestyle/technology/article/1256542/zhang-yitang-proof-mathematicians-life-begins-40

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Twin Prime Hero

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http://simonsfoundation.org/features/science-news/unheralded-mathematician-bridges-the-prime-gap/

On April 17, 2013, a paper arrived in the inbox of Annals of Mathematics, one of the discipline’s preeminent journals. Written by a mathematician virtually unknown to the experts in his field — a 50-something lecturer at the University of New Hampshire named Yitang Zhang — the paper claimed to have taken a huge step forward in understanding one of mathematics’ oldest problems, the twin primes conjecture.

Editors of prominent mathematics journals are used to fielding grandiose claims from obscure authors, but this paper was different. Written with crystalline clarity and a total command of the topic’s current state of the art, it was evidently a serious piece of work, and the Annals editors decided to put it on the fast track.

Yitang Zhang (Photo: University of New Hampshire)

Just three weeks later — a blink of an eye compared to the usual pace of mathematics journals — Zhang…

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Cut a cake 1/5

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Visually cut a cake 1/5 portions of equal size:

1) divide into half:

2) divide 1/5 of the right half:

3) divide half, obtain 1/5 = right of (3)

$latex frac{1}{5}= frac{1}{2} (frac{1}{2}(1- frac{1}{5}))= frac{1}{2} (frac{1}{2} (frac{4}{5}))=frac{1}{2}(frac{2}{5})$

4) By symmetry another 1/5 at (2)=(4)

5) divide left into 3 portions, each 1/5

$latex frac{1}{5}= frac{1}{3}(frac{1}{2}+ frac{1}{2}.frac{1}{5}) = frac{1}{3}.frac{6}{10}$

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Quick verify multiplication

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Verify:2,578,314 x 6,321,737 = 16,299,423,011,418 ?

2,578,314 => (2+5+7+8+3+1+4)) =30 => (3+0) = 3

6,321,737 => (6+3+2+1+7+3+7)=29 => 2+9 = 11 => (1+1) = 2

3 x 2 = 6

16,299,423,011,418 => (1+6+2+9+9+4+2+3+0+1+1+4+1+8) = 51 => (5+1) = 6

Correct !

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Proper Way of Cutting Cake

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The traditional way of cutting cake a la ‘Camembert Cheese’ is wrong.

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Interview With The Smartest Man In The World

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Terence Tao (1975, Adelaide): Chinese-american, with IQ 230-240, full professor at 24. Fields Medalist.

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J.P. Serre: Galois Group (Case Abelian)

JP Serre in French…

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(French) Groupes de Galois, le cas abélien

Jean Pierre Serre
♢ Youngest Fields Medalist in history at 27.
♢ Wolf Prize in 2000
♢ 1st person to win Abel Prize in 2003.

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Introducing WordAds 2.0

WordAds 2.0 is out. Hope it is good news for international WordPress blogs, who are getting much lower ad revenue compared to the US and Europe.

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Today, we’re excited to introduce you to a new WordAds. On the front end, it’s a simpler and more streamlined experience like never before. On the back-end we have launched a real-time bidding platform to maximize earnings and ad creative control. Say hello to WordAds 2.0!

WordAds 2.0 is now fully integrated where you control the rest of your blog, in WordPress.com’s main Settings interface. You can also view your Earnings reports here and manage your payout information.

Existing WordAds users aren’t the only ones to benefit from the changes in WordAds 2.0. For new users, we have done away with the separate application process. Any family friendly WordPress.com blog with minimal page views will be considered for immediate admission to WordAds.

Bigger changes are now live in our real time bidding environment. We have dozens of ad agencies and buyers bidding in real time on each of our global…

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Projective Space Explicit Homotopy (RP1 to RP2)

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The above video describes the real projective plane ( $\mathbb{R}P^2$ ).

The projective space $\mathbb{R}P^n$ can be defined as the quotient space of $S^n$ by the equivalence relation $x\sim -x$ for $x\in S^n$ .

Notation: For $x=(x_1,\dots, x_{n+1})\in S^n$ , we write $[x_1, x_2,\dots, x_{n+1}]$ for the corresponding point in $\mathbb{R}P^n$ . Let $f,g: \mathbb{R}P^1\to\mathbb{R}P^2$ be the maps defined by $f[x,y]=[x,y,0]$ and $g[x,y]=[x,-y,0]$ .

How do we construct an explicit homotopy between $f$ and $g$ ? A common mistake is to try the “straight-homotopy”, e.g. $F([x,y],t)=[x,(1-2t)y,0]$ . This is a mistake as it passes through the point [0,0,0] which is not part of the projective plane.

A better approach is to consider $F:\mathbb{R}P^1\times I\to\mathbb{R}P^2$ , defined by $\boxed{F([x,y],t)=[x,(\cos\pi t)y, (\sin\pi t)y]}$ .

Note that if $x^2+y^2=1$ , then $x^2+[(\cos\pi t)y]^2+[(\sin\pi t)y]^2=x^2+y^2=1$ .

$F([x,y],0)=[x,y,0]$

$F([x,y],1)=[x,-y,0]$

Story of Edison (Motivational)

Calculus World Cup

Just to share this news:

The National Taiwan University is holding the first ever Calculus World Cup (CWC) in February 2016. It’s the first time students from global top universities will be able to compete over Calculus in e-sports. The competition will be held on PaGamO – a social online gaming platform for education. The top 12 teams will be invited to Taiwan for the final round, and great prizes with a value of over $70,000 await the finalists!
Official website: http://cwc.pagamo.com.tw

Registration: https://pagamo.com.tw/calculus_cup

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/PaGamo.glo

Contractible space as Codomain implies any two maps Homotopic

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Recall that a space Y is contractible if the identity map $\text{id}_Y$ is homotopic to a constant map. Let Y be contractible space and let X be any space. Then, for any maps $f,g: X\to Y$ , $f\simeq g$ .

Proof: Let Y be a contractible space and let X be any space. $\text{id}_Y\simeq c$ , where $c$ is a constant map. There exists a map $F: Y\times [0,1]\to Y$ such that $F(y,0)=\text{id}_Y(y)=y$ , for $y\in Y$ . $F(y,1)=c(y)=b$ for some point $b\in Y$ .

Let $f,g: X\to Y$ be any two maps. Consider $G:X\times [0,1]\to Y$ where $G(x,t)=\begin{cases} F(f(x),2t),&\ \ \ \text{for}\ 0\leq t\leq 1/2\\ F(g(x),-2t+2),&\ \ \ \text{for}\ \frac 12<t\leq 1 \end{cases}$

When $t=\frac 12$ , $F(f(x),1)=b$ , $F(g(x),1)=b$ . Therefore G is cts.

$G(x,0)=F(f(x),0)=f(x)$ ,

$G(x,1)=F(g(x),0)=g(x)$ .

Therefore $f\simeq g$ .

Motivational Video of the Weekend

Just chanced upon this video on YouTube, really made a lot of sense and is very uplifting. Dream big, and don’t set any limits on yourself and what you can do.

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Outer measure of Symmetric Difference Zero implies Measurability

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Just came across this neat beginner’s Lebesgue Theory question. As students of analysis know, just to show a set is measurable is no easy feat. The usual way is to use the Caratheodory definition, where a set E is said to be measurable if for any set A, $m^*(A)=m^*(A\cap E)+m^*(A\cap E^c)$ . This can be quite tedious.

Question: Suppose E is a Lebesgue measurable set and let F be any subset of $\mathbb{R}$ such that $m^*(E\Delta F)=0$ (Symmetric Difference is Zero). Show that F is measurable.

The short way to do this is to note that $m^*(E\Delta F)=0$ implies $m^*(E\setminus F)=0$ , and $m^*(F\setminus E)=0$ . This in turn (using a lemma that any set with outer measure zero is measurable) implies the measurability of $E\setminus F$ and $\setminus F\setminus E$ .

Next comes the critical observation: $\boxed{E\cap F=E\setminus (E\setminus F)=E\cap (E\setminus F)^c}$ . Using the fact that the collection of measurable sets is a $\sigma$ -algebra, we can conclude $E\cap F$ is measurable.

Thus $F=(E\cap F)\cup (F\setminus E)$ is the union of two measurable sets and thus is measurable.

Interesting indeed!

Math Joke (Fields Arranged by Purity)

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I came across this joke on another blog: http://phdlife.warwick.ac.uk/

Quite true! A Math student will understand this at the university level and beyond, where Math has no more numbers and is full of symbols and jargon! Although even the most abstract Math has applications, the applications are only discovered years later, hence Pure Math is indeed one of the most pure subjects around.

$math joke$

Fail H2 Maths Promos or Prelims

For H2 (or H1) Maths students who are getting low marks for internal school exams, do not be overly discouraged. The current trend for schools is to set very tough internal exams (i.e. Promos and Prelims) to spur students to study hard, and (hopefully) ace the eventual final A level exams. If you look at the actual A Level Ten Year Series, you will find that the standard of questions is much easier than Prelim level.

A rule of thumb is that the eventual A level grade is 2 grades above the internal school grade. E.g., in internal exams a student getting D for H2 Maths is most likely equivalent to a B in the final A levels, provided the student continues to study hard.

Jumping from E to A grade has been done by many seniors. Do not give up, continue to believe in yourself, and keep calm while constantly revising.

Do check out this highly condensed H2 Math Notes (comes with free exam papers). The key thing to do before exams is to remember Math formulas (many students forget the AP/GP formulae for instance, and lost some free marks). Constant practice and exposure to questions is also a must.

Here are some sources of true stories:

1) https://www.facebook.com/RJConfessions/posts/220752441406251

To all the J1 and J2 kids who are struggling with math, let me share with you my personal experience. I took H2 math by the way, and refused to drop to H1 when people started dropping.

J1 CT 1: Math: U
J1 promos: Math: S
J2 CT1: Math S
J2 CT2: Math S
J2 Prelims: Math E
A levels: Math A.

The moral of the story is simple: It can be done. My math teacher used to motivate us with stories of seniors who have also flunked their way through math in the 2 years and clinched an A at the end. I didnt really believed it could happen, but I guess I chose to believe it anyways.

2) https://www.reddit.com/r/singapore/comments/3nkq4t/jc_prelims_alevels_correlation/

H2 Math: E A

H2 Chem: D B

H2 Econs: D D

H1 Physics: U A

H1 GP: B A

The grades on the left were prelims and right were my actual results. Of course it depends on your school and how hard they set the prelim papers

Fermat’s Two Squares Theorem (Gaussian Integers approach)

Today we will discuss Fermat’s Two Squares Theorem using the approach of Gaussian Integers, the set of numbers of the form a+bi, where a, b are integers. This theorem is also called Fermat’s Christmas Theorem, presumably because it is proven during Christmas.

Have you ever wondered why $5=1^2+2^2$ , $13=2^2+3^2$ can be expressed as a sum of two squares, while not every prime can be? This is no coincidence, as we will learn from the theorem below.

Theorem: An odd prime p is the sum of two squares, i.e. $p=a^2+b^2$ where a, b are integers if and only if $p\equiv 1 \pmod 4$ .

(=>) The forward direction is the easier one. Note that $a^2\equiv 0\pmod 4$ if a is even, and $a^2\equiv 1\pmod 4$ if a is odd. Similar for b. Hence $p=a^2+b^2$ can only be congruent to 0, 1 or 2 (mod 4). Since p is odd, this means $p\equiv 1\pmod 4$ .

(<=) Conversely, assume $p\equiv 1\pmod 4$ , where p is a prime. p=4k+1 for some integer k.

First we prove a lemma called Lagrange’s Lemma: If $p\equiv 1\pmod 4$ is prime, then $p\mid (n^2+1)$ for some integer n.

Proof: By Wilson’s Theorem, $(p-1)!=(4k)!\equiv -1\pmod p$ . $(4k)!\equiv [(2k)!]^2\equiv -1\pmod p$ . We may see this by observing that $4k\equiv p-1\equiv -1\pmod p$ , $4k-1\equiv -2\pmod p$ , …, $4k-(2k-1)=2k+1\equiv -2k\pmod p$ . Thus $[(2k)!]^2+1\equiv 0\pmod p$ and hence $p\mid n^2+1$ , where $n=(2k)!$ .

Then $p\mid (n+i)(n-i)$ . However $p\nmid (n+i)$ since $p\nmid n=(2k)!$ . Similarly, $p\nmid (n-i)$ . Therefore $p$ is not a Gaussian prime, and it is thus not irreducible.

$p=\alpha\beta$ with $N(\alpha)>1$ and $N(\beta)>1$ . $N(p)=N(\alpha)N(\beta)$ , which means $p^2=N(\alpha)N(\beta)$ . Thus we may conclude $N(\alpha)=p$ , $N(\beta)=p$ .

Let $\alpha=a+bi$ . Then $p=a^2+b^2$ and we are done.

This proof is pretty amazing, and shows the connection between number theory and ring theory.

Holder’s Inequality Trick

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Holder’s Inequality is a very useful inequality in Functional Analysis, hence many results can be proved by applying Holder’s Inequality.

Suppose that $\mu(\Omega)<\infty$ and $1\leq p_1<p_2\leq\infty$ . Prove that if $f_n\to f$ in $L^{p_2}$ , then $f_n\to f$ in $L^{p_1}$ .

Proof: Assume $f_n\to f$ in $L^{p_2}$ . Then there exists $N$ such that if $n\geq N$ , then $\|f_n-f\|_{p_2}=(\int |f_n-f|^{p_2} d\mu)^{1/p_2}<\epsilon$ .

Then, $\begin{aligned} \|f_n-f\|_{p_1}^{p_1}&=\int |f_n-f|^{p_1} d\mu\\ &=\||f_n-f|^{p_1}\cdot 1\|_1\\ &\leq\||f_n-f|^{p_1}\|_{p_2/p_1}\|1\|_{(p_2/p_1)'},\ \ \ \text{where } (p_2/p_1)'=\frac{p_2}{p_2-p_1}\ \text{is the Holder conjugate}\\ &=(\int |f_n-f|^{p_2}d\mu)^{p_1/p_2}(\int 1 d\mu)^\frac{p_2-p_1}{p_2}\\ &<\epsilon^{p_1}\cdot \mu(\Omega)^\frac{p_2-p_1}{p_2} \end{aligned}$

Since $\epsilon>0$ is arbitrary, $\|f_n-f\|_{p_1}^{p_1}\to 0$ as $n\to\infty$ .

Therefore, $\|f_n-f\|_{p_1}\to 0$ .

Abstract Algebra 抽象代数 (石生明教授)

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这位石教授的”抽象代数”很棒, 一来是他退休前的最后一课, 二来他总结为何老师教不好, 学生上完课好像听到3个大头”鬼” (群group, 环ring, 域field), 但没实际摸过。

他的第一和第二课很好, 与众不同的花时间讲 “动机”: Motivation – Why study Abstract Algebra ?

抽象代数01: Motivation

https://youtu.be/AGd1TZ-IKr0

抽象代数02: 复数扩域 C
$latex
x^{2} +1=0
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扩域 (Extended Field)数学思维 = 人解决问题的思维
例: 国内不可行的问题, 跳出国门, 扩大到世界领域, 就找到可行的方法。
马云的Alibaba国内不看好, 跑去美国上市, 让他马上成为中国首富的亿万富翁。

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张益唐: 速食店员竟然是数学天才

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【台湾壹週刊】

速食店员竟然是数学天才

张益唐 (1955 – ) : 北京大学 – 美国数学博士。因为执着数学理论的真理, 得罪美国大学台湾籍论文教授, 毕业后找不到大学教职, 在朋友的 Subway 速食店做会计8年, 潜心业余思考世界数学大难题: Twin Primes Gap, 终于攻破。

他的下一个目标是Riemann Hypothesis, 困扰数学家百年的难题: “素数 (Prime numbers)的分布”都集中在 Zeta function complex plane的实轴(real = 1/2) 上。大数学家David Hilbert说如果五百年后复活, 第一件事会急着问 “Riemann Hypothesis” 证明了吗?

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James H. Simons, the mathematician who cracked Wallstreet

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James H. Simons, the Jewish mathematician who made $14 billion using Math modelling for Hedge Fund.

[Watch from 31:00 mins to 35 mins]. He told the Nobel Physicist Frank Yang (杨振宁) that the Math “Gauge Theory on Fiber Bundles(纤维丛)” which Yang was developing already existed 30 yrs ago in “Differential Geometry” by SS Chern (陈省身) from Berkeley.

“James H. Simons: Mathematics, Common Sense and Good Luck”

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245A, Notes 4: Modes of convergence

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If one has a sequence $latex {x_1, x_2, x_3, ldots in {bf R}}&fg=000000$ of real numbers $latex {x_n}&fg=000000$, it is unambiguous what it means for that sequence to converge to a limit $latex {x in {bf R}}&fg=000000$: it means that for every $latex {epsilon > 0}&fg=000000$, there exists an $latex {N}&fg=000000$ such that $latex {|x_n-x| leq epsilon}&fg=000000$ for all $latex {n > N}&fg=000000$. Similarly for a sequence $latex {z_1, z_2, z_3, ldots in {bf C}}&fg=000000$ of complex numbers $latex {z_n}&fg=000000$ converging to a limit $latex {z in {bf C}}&fg=000000$.

More generally, if one has a sequence $latex {v_1, v_2, v_3, ldots}&fg=000000$ of $latex {d}&fg=000000$-dimensional vectors $latex {v_n}&fg=000000$ in a real vector space $latex {{bf R}^d}&fg=000000$ or complex vector space $latex {{bf C}^d}&fg=000000$, it is also unambiguous what it means for that sequence to converge to a limit $latex {v in {bf R}^d}&fg=000000$ or $latex {v in {bf C}^d}&fg=000000$; it means…

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mu is countably additive if and only if it satisfies the Axiom of Continuity

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Let $\mu$ be a finite, non-negative, finitely additive set function on a measurable space $(\Omega, \mathcal{A})$ . Show that $\mu$ is countably additive if and only if it satisfies the Axiom of Continuity: For $E_n\in\mathcal{A}, E_n\downarrow\emptyset \implies \mu(E_n)\to 0$ .

(=>) Assume $\mu$ is countably additive. Let $E_n\in\mathcal{A}$ , $E_n\downarrow\emptyset$ . Then,

$\displaystyle \lim_n \mu (E_n)=\mu (\cap_{n=1}^\infty E_n)=\mu (\emptyset)$ .

Suppose $\mu(\emptyset)=c$ . Then $\mu(\emptyset)=\mu(\cup_{n=1}^\infty \emptyset)=\sum_{n=1}^\infty c$ implies $c=0$ .

(<=) Assume $\mu$ satisfies Axiom of Continuity. Let $A_n\in\mathcal{A}$ be mutually disjoint sets. Define $E_n=\cup_{i=1}^\infty A_i\setminus \cup_{i=1}^n A_i$ .

Then $E_n\downarrow\emptyset$ . $\lim_n \mu(E_n)=0$ , $\lim_n \mu(\cup_{i=1}^\infty A_i)-\mu (\cup_{i=1}^n A_i)=0$ . $\lim_n \mu(\cup_{i=1}^n A_i)=\mu (\cup_{i=1}^\infty A_i)$ .

Therefore

$\begin{aligned}\mu(\cup_{i=1}^\infty A_i)&=\lim_n \mu(\cup_{i=1}^n A_i)\\ &=\lim_n \sum_{i=1}^n \mu (A_i)\\ &=\sum_{i=1}^\infty \mu(A_i) \end{aligned}$

Measure that is absolutely continuous with respect to mu

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Let $(X,\mathcal{M},\mu)$ be a measure space, and let $f:X\to [0,\infty]$ be a measurable function. Define the map $\lambda:\mathcal{M}\to[0,\infty]$ , $\lambda(E):=\int_X \chi_E f d\mu$ , where $\chi_E$ denotes the characteristic function of $E$ .

(a) Show that $\lambda$ is a measure and that it is absolutely continuous with respect to $\mu$ .

(b) Show that for any measurable function $g:X\to[0,\infty]$ , one has $\int_X g d\lambda=\int_X gf d\mu$ in $[0,\infty]$ .

Proof: For part (a), we routinely check that $\lambda$ is indeed a measure.

$\lambda(\emptyset)=\int_X \chi_\emptyset f d\mu=\int_X 0 d\mu=0$ . Let $E_i$ be mutually disjoiint measurable sets.

$\begin{aligned} \lambda(\cup_{i=1}^\infty E_i)&=\int_X \chi_{\cup_{i=1}^\infty E_i} f d\mu\\ &=\int_X (\sum_{i=1}^\infty \chi_{E_i}) f d\mu\\ &=\sum_{i=1}^\infty \int_X \chi_{E_i} f d\mu\\ &=\sum_{i=1}^\infty \lambda (E_i) \end{aligned}$

If $\mu (E)=0$ , then $\chi_{E} f=0$ a.e., thus $\lambda (E)=0$ . Therefore $\lambda\ll\mu$ .

(b) We note that when $g$ is a characteristic function, i.e. $g=\chi_E$ ,

$\begin{aligned} \int_X g d\lambda&=\int_X \chi_E d\lambda\\ &=\lambda (E)\\ &=\int_X \chi_E f d\mu\\ &=\int_X gf d\mu \end{aligned}$

Hence the equation holds. By linearity, we can see that the equation holds for all simple functions. Let $(\psi_n)$ be a sequence of simple functions such that $\psi_n\uparrow g$ . Then by the Monotone Convergence Theorem, $\lim_{n\to\infty} \int \psi_n d\lambda=\int g d\lambda$ .

Note that $\psi_n f\uparrow gf$ , thus by MCT, $\lim_{n\to\infty}\int\psi_n f d\mu=\int g f d\mu$ . Note that $\int \psi_n d\lambda=\int \psi_n f d\mu$ . Hence, $\int g d\lambda=\int gf d\mu$ , and we are done.

Calculus: Difficult Integration

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In the French Classe Préparatoire 1st year “Mathematiques Supérieures”, we wanted to test our admired Math Prof whom we think was a “super know-all” mathematician. We asked him the above question. He immediately scolded us in the unique French mathematics rigor:

“L’intégration n’a pas de sense!
Quelle-est la domaine de définition?”

(The integration has no meaning! What is the domain of definition ?)

He was right! Under the British Math education, we lack the rigor of mathematics. We are skillful in applying many tricks to integrate whatever functions, but it is meaningless without specifying the domain (interval) in which the function is defined ! Bear in mind Integration of a function f (curve) is to calculate the Area under the curve f within an interval (or Domain, D). If f is not defined in D, then it is meaningless to integrate f because there won’t be…

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Visual Math

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99% of my friends get it wrong, except a 13-year-old boy who can ‘see’ it.

Wrong answer : 25

Answer (below):
Try before you scroll down.

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Singapore PSLE 2015 Math

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PSLE is “Primary School Leaving Exams” for 11~12 year-old children sitting at the end of 6-year primary education. The result is used as selection criteria to enter the secondary school of choice.

Hint: Without seeing or feeling the weight of the $1 coin, you still can guess the answer. This is the essence of “Singapore Math” — using “Guesstimation“.

Answer (below):
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f integrable implies set where f is infinite is measure zero

Let $(X,\mathcal{M},\mu)$ be a measure space. Let $f:X\to [0,\infty]$ be a measurable function. Suppose that $\int_X f d\mu<\infty$ .

(a) Show that the set $\{x\in X:f(x)=\infty\}\subseteq X$ is of $\mu$ -measure 0. (Intuitively, this is quite obvious, but we need to prove it rigorously.)

(b) Show that the set $\{x\in X:f(x)\neq 0\}\subseteq X$ is $\sigma$ -finite with respect to $\mu$ . i.e. it is a countable union of measurable sets of finite $\mu$ -measure.

We may use Markov’s inequality, which turns out to be very useful in this question.

Proof: (a) Let $E_k=\{x\in X:f(x)\geq k\}$ , where $k\in\mathbb{N}$ . Denote $E_\infty=\{x\in X:f(x)=\infty\}$ .

$E_K \downarrow E_\infty$ , and $\mu (E_1)\leq\frac{1}{1}\int_X f d\mu<\infty$ . (Markov Inequality!)

Then

$\begin{aligned}\mu(E_\infty)&=\lim_{k\to\infty}\mu (E_k)\\ &\leq\lim_{k\to\infty}\frac{1}{k}\int f d\mu\ \ \ \text{(Markov Inequality)}\\ &=0 \end{aligned}$

Therefore, $\mu(E_\infty)=0$ .

(b) Let $S_k=\{x\in X:f(x)\geq\frac{1}{k}\}$ , $k\in\mathbb{N}$ .

$\{x\in X:f(x)\neq 0\}=\cup_{k=1}^\infty S_k$

Therefore, $\mu(S_k)\leq k\int f d\mu<\infty$ , and we have expressed the set as a countable union of measurable sets of finite measure.

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Markov inequality is a useful inequality that gives a rough upper bound of the measure of a set in terms of an integral. The precise statement is: Let $f$ be a nonnegative measurable function on $\Omega$ . The Markov inequality states that for all $K>0$ , $\displaystyle \mu\{x\in\Omega:f(x)\geq K\}\leq\frac{1}{K}\int fd\mu$ .

The proof is rather neat and short. Let $E_K:=\{x\in\Omega: f(x)\geq K\}$ Then,

$\begin{aligned} \int f d\mu &\geq \int_{E_K} fd\mu\\ &\geq \int_{E_K}K d\mu\\ &=K \mu(E_K) \end{aligned}$

Therefore, $\mu(E_K)\leq\frac{1}{K}\int fd\mu$ .

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Necessary and Sufficient Condition for Integrability in finite measure space

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Let $(\Omega, \Sigma, \mu)$ be a finite measure space. Suppose that $f\geq 0$ is a measurable function on $\Omega$ . Let $E_n:=\{\omega\in\Omega:f(\omega)\geq n\}$ for each $n\in \mathbb{N}\cup\{0\}$ . Show that $f$ is integrable if and only if $\sum_{n=0}^\infty \mu(E_n)<\infty$ .

This proof has a cute solution that is potentially very short. We will elaborate more on this proof. Other approaches include using Markov’s Inequality / Chebyshev’s inequality.

Proof: Consider $g=\sum_{n=1}^\infty I_{E_n}$ .

Note that for each $n\geq 0, n\in\mathbb{N}$ on $E_n\setminus E_{n+1}$ , $g=n$ , while $n\leq f<n+1$ . Therefore $g\leq f<g+1$ on $\Omega$ .

Integrating with respect to $\mu$ , we get $\int_{\Omega} gd\mu\leq\int_{\Omega} fd\mu<\int_{\Omega} g+1d\mu$ .

$\displaystyle\boxed{\sum_{n=1}^\infty \mu (E_n)\leq \int_\Omega f d\mu<\sum_{n=1}^\infty\mu(E_n)+\mu(\Omega)}$

(=>) Now assuming f is integrable, i.e. $\int fd\mu<\infty$ , we have $\sum_{n=1}^\infty \mu(E_n)<\infty$ . $\mu(E_0)=\mu(\Omega)<\infty$ . Therefore $\sum_{n=0}^\infty\mu(E_n)<\infty$ .

(<=) Conversely, if $\sum_{n=0}^\infty\mu(E_n)=\sum_{n=1}^\infty \mu(E_n)+\mu(\Omega)<\infty$ , then $\int_\Omega f d\mu<\infty$ .

We are done.

Note: For a more rigorous proof of $\int gd\mu=\sum_{n=1}^\infty \mu (E_n)$ we can use MCT (Monotone Convergence Theorem).

Let $g_k=\sum_{n=1}^k I_{E_n}$ . Then $g_k\uparrow g$ . By MCT, $\int gd\mu=\lim_{k\to\infty} \int g_k d\mu=\lim_{k\to\infty} \sum_{n=1}^k \mu (E_n)=\sum_{n=1}^\infty \mu(E_n)$ .

εδ Confusion in Limit & Continuity

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1. Basic:
|y|= 0 or > 0 for all y

2. Limit: $latex displaystylelim_{xto a}f(x) = L$ ; x≠a
|x-a|≠0 and always >0
hence
$latex displaystylelim_{xto a}f(x) = L$
$latex iff $
For all ε >0, there exists δ >0 such that
$latex boxed{0<|x-a|<delta}$
$latex implies |f(x)-L|< epsilon$

3. Continuity: f(x) continuous at x=a
Case x=a: |x-a|=0
=> |f(a)-f(a)|= 0 <ε (automatically)
So by default we can remove (x=a) case.

Also from 1) it is understood: |x-a|>0
Hence suffice to write only:
$latex |x-a|<delta$

f(x) is continuous at point x = a
$latex iff $
For all ε >0, there exists δ >0 such that
$latex boxed{|x-a|<delta}$
$latex implies |f(x)-f(a)|< epsilon$

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Limit: ε-δ Analysis

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For x->0, find limit L of

f(x)= (x³+5x)/x

1) guess L:

f(x)= x(x²+5)/x= x²+5

=> L= 5 when x->0

2) epsilon-delta Proof: find δ in function of ε such that:

|f(x)-5| < ε

|(x²+5)-5| <ε

|x|< √ε

Choose δ=√ε

For all ε, there is δ=√ε such that |x-0|< δ =>|f(x)-5|< ε

If ε=0.5, δ=√0.5=0.25

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Newtonian Calculus not rigorous !

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Why Newton’s Calculus Not Rigorous?

$latex f(x ) = frac {x(x^2+ 5)} { x}$ …[1]

cancel x (≠0)from upper and below => $latex f(x )=x^2 +5 $

$latex mathop {lim }limits_{x to 0} f(x) =x^2 +5= L=5 $ …[2]

In [1]: we assume x ≠ 0, so cancel upper & lower x
But In [2]: assume x=0 to get L=5
[1] (x ≠ 0) contradicts with [2] (x =…)

This is the weakness of Newtonian Calculus, made rigorous later by Cauchy’s ε-δ ‘Analysis’.

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Rigorous Calculus: ε-δ Analysis

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Rigorous Analysis epsilon-delta (ε-δ)
Cauchy gave epsilon-delta the rigor to Analysis, Weierstrass ‘arithmatized‘ it to become the standard language of modern analysis.

1) Limit was first defined by Cauchy in “Analyse Algébrique” (1821)

2) Cauchy repeatedly used ‘Limit’ in the book Chapter 3 “Résumé des Leçons sur le Calcul infinitésimal” (1823) for ‘derivative’ of f as the limit of

$latex frac{f(x+i)-f(x)}{i}$ when i ->…

3) He introduced ε-δ in Chapter 7 to prove ‘Mean Value Theorem‘: Denote by (ε , δ) 2 small numbers, such that 0< i ≤ δ , and for all x between (x+i) and x,

f ‘(x)- ε < $latex frac{f(x+i)-f(x)}{i}$ < f'(x)+ ε

4) These ε-δ Cauchy’s proof method became the standard definition of Limit of Function in Analysis.

5) They are notorious for causing widespread discomfort among future math students. In fact, when it…

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German Terms

German before WW2 was the World’center of Science (Einstein etc) and Modern Math (Gauss, Klein, Hilbert etc), that’s why we inherit some letter symbols eg. Z (Zahl, Integer) …

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1. The electron orbits: first 4 orbits from atom

s, p, d, f

s = Sharfe (Sharp)

p =prinzipielle (principle)

d = diffusiv (diffuse)

f= fundamentale (fundamental)

2. eigen (special)

eigenvector

eigenvalue

eigenfunction

eigenfrequency

3. Math:

e = neutral element (I=Identity)

K=Korps (Fields)

Z = Zahl (Integer)

4. Physics:

F-center = Color Center (F=Farbe=color)

Umklapp process = reverse process

Aufbau principle (quantum chemistry) = Building (bau) Up (Auf) principle

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“Well-defined”( “定义良好”)

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万门大学抽象代数7:

“定义良好” (Well-defined)

集合: Set (S)
等价关系: Equivalence Relation (~)
商集 : Quotient Set (S/~)
映射 : Mapping (f)

Prove : f is well-defined ?

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抽象代数 Abstract Algebra

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北京航空航天大学：数学大观第2讲数学抽象无招胜有招”

1. Euclid 5条公理 (Axioms) => 全部几何 (Geometry)
2. Galois 运算律 (Laws of Operations) => 抽象代数 (Abstract Algebra)

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Abstract Math discomforts

Abstract Algebra is the killer Math subject for university-bound Singaporean A-level students educated in the British GCE syllabus. Except a fews who are born with the gift, most of them get lost in the first year of university. Yet Abstract Algebra is important math “language” of science and technology : IT, Chemistry, Physics, Advanced Math… if you want to describe a complex structure (quantum physics, crystallography), algorithm (search), method (encryption), you use this precise and concise language “Abstract Algebra” (such as Group, Vector Space, …). Countries like China and USA havevmade Abstract Algebra a compulsory subject for 1st year undergrads in Science, Engineering, IT students beside Math majors …

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3 Wide Discomforts For Abstract Math Students

1. Group : Coset, Quotient group, morphism…
2. Limit ε-δ: Cauchy
3. Bourbaki Sets: Function f: A-> B is subset of Cartesian Product AxB.

Students should learn from their historical genesis rather than the formal abstract definitions

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“…It is more important to understand the ‘Principles’ 原理 behind, à la Physics (eg. Newton’s 3 Laws of Motion), and not blinded by its abstract ‘Axioms’ 公理.”

Prof I.Herstein http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel_Nathan_Herstein

“… Seeing Abstract Math for the first time, there seems to be a common feeling of being adrift, of not having something solid to hang on to.”

“Do not be discouraged. Stick with it! The best road is to look at examples. Try to understand what a given concept says, most importantly, look at particular, concrete examples of the concept.”

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Probability: Dice

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Throw 2 dies, the sum of points i, j and probability P (i+j):

2(1/36) 3(1/18) 4(1/12) 5(1/9) 6(5/36) 7(1/6)
8(5/36) 9(1/9) 10(1/12) 11(1/18) 12(1/36)
=> Bell curve symmetric both sides, peak 1/6 (sum 7).

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Probability by 2 Great Friends

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Today Probability is a “money” Math, used in Actuarial Science, Derivatives (Options) in Black-Scholes Formula.

In the beginning it was “A Priori” Probability by Pascal (1623-1662), then Fermat (1601-1665) invented today’s “A Posteriori” Probability.

“A Priori” assumes every thing is naturally “like that”: eg. Each coin has 1/2 chance for head, 1/2 for tail. Each dice has 1/6 equal chance for each face (1-6).

“A Posteriori” by Fermat, then later the exile Protestant French mathematician De Moivre (who discovered Normal Distribution), is based on observation of “already happened” statistic data.

Cardano (1501-1576) born 150 years earlier than Pascal and Fermat, himself a weird genius in Medicine, Math and an addictive gambler, found the rule of + and x for chances (he did not know the name ‘Probability’ then ):

Addition + Rule: throw a dice, chance to get a “1 and 2” faces:
1/6 +1/6 = 2/6 = 1/3

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Quotations

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1. Issac Newton: Hypotheses non fingo (I frame no hypotheses)

2. Gauss: Pauca sed matura (Few but ripe)

3. Descartes: Bene vixit qui bene latuit (he has lived well who has hidden well.)

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Galois Theory Simplified

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Galois discovered Quintic Equation has no radical (expressed with +,-,*,/, nth root) solutions, but his new Math “Group Theory” also explains:
$latex x^{5} – 1 = 0 text { has radical solution}$
but
$latex x^{5} -x -1 = 0 text{ has no radical solution}$

Why ?

$latex x^{5} – 1 = 0 text { has 5 solutions: } displaystyle x = e^{frac{ikpi}{5}}$
$latex text{where k } in {0,1,2,3,4}$
which can be expressed in
$latex x= cos frac{kpi}{5} + i.sin frac{kpi}{5} $
hence in {+,-,*,/, √ }
ie
$latex x_0 = e^{frac{i.0pi}{5}}=1$
$latex x_1 = e^{frac{ipi}{5}}$
$latex x_2 = e^{frac{2ipi}{5}}$
$latex x_3 = e^{frac{3ipi}{5}}$
$latex x_4 = e^{frac{4ipi}{5}}$
$latex x_5 = e^{frac{5ipi}{5}}=1=x_0$

=>
$latex text {Permutation of solutions }{x_j} text { forms a Cyclic Group: }
{x_0,x_1,x_2,x_3,x_4} $

Theorem: All Cyclic Groups are Solvable
=>
$latex x^{5} -1 = 0 text { has radical solutions.}$

However,
$latex x^{5} -x -1 =…

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Interesting Analysis Question (Measure Theory)

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Let $f\geq 0$ be a measurable function with $\int f d\mu<\infty$ . Show that for any $\epsilon>0$ , there exists a $\delta(\epsilon)>0$ such that for any measurable set $E\in\mathcal{A}$ with $\mu(E)<\delta(\epsilon)$ , we have $\int_E f d\mu<\epsilon$ .