A Mathematician's Apology Updated 2025-07-16
With major mathematicians holding ideas such as:
Exposition, criticism, appreciation, is work for second-rate minds. [...] It is a melancholy experience for a professional mathematician to find himself writing about mathematics. The function of a mathematician is to do something, to prove new theorems, to add to mathematics, and not to talk about what he or other mathematicians have done.
it is not surprise that the state of STEM education is so shit as of 2020, especially at the the missing link between basic and advanced! This also implies that the number of people that can appreciate any advanced mathematics research is tiny, and consequently so is the funding.
Post-order depth-first search Updated 2025-07-16
Has the property of visiting all descendants before the parent.
Pre-order depth-first search Updated 2025-07-16
This is the order in which you would want to transverse to read the chapters of a book.
Like breadth-first search, this also has the property of visiting parents before any children.
Note that:
and for that to be true for all possible and then we must have:
i.e. the matrix inverse is equal to the transpose.
Conversely, if:
is true, then
These matricese are called the orthogonal matrices.
TODO is there any more intuitive way to think about this?
GNU screen Updated 2025-07-16
Most important things to know:
Suona Updated 2025-07-16
One of the most flashy chinese musical instrument!
It is very similar to the Indian shehnai.
Video 1.
Wang Jin beats Gao Qiu theme music from The Water Margin
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Commodity Updated 2025-07-16
Hilbert's tenth problem Updated 2025-07-16
Once you hear about the uncomputability of such problems, it makes you see that all Diophantine equation questions risk being undecidable, though in some simpler cases we manage to come up with answers. The feeling is similar to watching people trying to solve the Halting problem, e.g. in the effort to determine BB(5).

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