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    POTW Find the Dimension of a Subspace of Matrices

    I've always felt like it's a flaw of linear algebra that more matrices don't commute with diagonal matrices
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    A Can three elbows generate any point in space?

    I think you only need one turn? Assuming your arms can have arbitrary length, the first arm can reach the (x,y,0) point corresponding to any (x,y,z), then you just make a single turn up or down and attach another arm of length z. Are the lengths of the arms restricted in any way? E.g. the set...
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    Ratio test proof

    A good starting point is to compare it to a geometric series. For example if ##c=1/3## can you think of a series that converges whose terms are eventually guaranteed to be larger than the ##x_n##?
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    Find f s. t. ||f||=1 and f(x) < 1 with ||x||=1

    Suppose ##f## is continuous and ##f(A)=B##, where ##A## is compact. Let ##U_i## be an open infinite cover of ##B## and consider ##V_i=f^{-1}(U_i)##. This is an open subcover of ##A## so has a finite subcover which I will call ##V'_i##. Let ##U'_i## be the subset of ##U_i## for which...
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    I Question about vector spaces and subsets

    I'm going to do things over two dimensions, to make the difference between scalars and vectors a bit more obvious. ##\mathbb{Q}^2## is obviously a 2 dimensional vector space over ##\mathbb{Q}##. It is also a subset of ##\mathbb{R}^2##. This is both a two dimensional vector space over...
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    Find f s. t. ||f||=1 and f(x) < 1 with ||x||=1

    No, for example the sequence ##x_k=(1,0)## when ##k## is odd and ##(0,1)## when ##k## is even does not converge. But it is true that every sequence contained in a closed bounded set has a convergent subsequence. And that subsequence will give you your contradiction.
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    Find f s. t. ||f||=1 and f(x) < 1 with ||x||=1

    Item 1 does not exist. The key point is for the supremum to be 1 but the maximum to be less than 1, there must exist a sequence ##x_n## such that ##f(x_n)\to 1## (probably worth proving if it's not obvious) What do you know about sequences in the closed unit balls? Are they guaranteed to have...
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    I Question about vector spaces and subsets

    Counterpoint: ##\mathbb{Q}\subset \mathbb{R}##, is a 1 dimensional vector space over itself but it's not a subspace of the one dimensional real vector space ##\mathbb{R}##. I would argue the addition is the same :)
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    I How to implement proper error estimation using MC

    You can kind of just compute this exactly. For any possible choice of x, you know what fraction of the time your sampling will return a 0 instead of a 1. Then you can compute things like what value of x makes it so you would only see at least as extreme a result as you got 5% of the time (in...
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    I How to implement proper error estimation using MC

    Are y and the standard deviation of dy exactly known to you?
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    I A step in a proof of linear dependence of ODE solutions

    I think the point is that for any fixed x the functions are just numbers.
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    I Riemann integrability and uniform convergence

    I suspect it's a typo and the 3 in the denominator is supposed to be gone. Edit: actually I take it back. Let's say ##M_k>N_k##. Then where ##M_k## is realized, ##f_N## is within ##\epsilon/(3(b-a))## of ##M_k## and is guaranteed to not be larger than ##N_k##, showing the inequality in your...
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    I How to manipulate functions that are not explicitly given?

    The first function in the original post, that would probably refer to the third variable actually
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    I How to manipulate functions that are not explicitly given?

    The Landau case, ##\frac{\partial L}{\partial v^2}## is the same thing, you could let ##x_1=v^2## and you're just doing the chain rule. ##\frac{\partial L}{\partial v^2}=\frac{\partial L}{\partial x_1}## the ##v^2## in the denominator is the author's way of just making sure you don't compute...
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    I How to manipulate functions that are not explicitly given?

    Yeah, this is very abused notation. I think it helps to separate the variables a bit. Let ##f=f(x_1)##, and let ##x_1=y+\alpha \eta##. Then it's really ##\frac{\partial f}{\partial x_1}\frac{\partial x_1}{\partial \alpha}##. Unfortunately people don't want to need 2n variables for an n...
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