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Let’s Get Real… Analysis (Part 3.2) Uniqueness of Limits
We meet again in our real analysis series! In part 1 we learned about the supremum and infimum and then in part 2 we learned about sequence limits. Part 3 has been broken up into two parts: 3.1 is on the triangle inequality…
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Let’s Get Real… Analysis (Part 3.1) The Triangle Inequality
Let’s get straight into this one today! The Triangle Inequality As the name suggests, this is an equality that can be related back to a triangle. Consider the triangle’s sides below, The triangle inequality states: the sum of any two side lengths of…
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Let’s Get Real… Analysis (Part 2): Sequence Limits
Sequences are absolutely fundamental to real analysis. They are the bed rock of most of what we will learn that will follow. Not only will our work on infinite series be based on taking limits of sequences, but a lot of definitions in…
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Let’s get Real… Analysis (Part 1): Super Supremum and Infamous Infimum
Mathematicians love to generalize/extend ideas and concepts. There seems to be no limit to their creativity in finding ever more generalized versions of everyday concepts. From exponentiation first being shorthand for repeated multiplication, e.g. to extending exponentiation to include rational exponents like And…
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Time Dilation Through the Geometry of Right Triangles
Today’s an exciting day, our first venture into physics together. Since everyone, including myself, loves time dilation and special relativity I really wanted to start with this topic. Also, a small comment one of my friends made regarding how crucial geometry was to…
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Newbie at Number Theory (Part 9): Euler’s Little Theorem
As you might have guessed, we’re going learn about Euler’s generalization of Fermat’s Little Theorem, that I’ve dubbed Euler’s Little Theorem. Note this is only what I call the theorem, unfortunately no one else seems to call it this! But, maybe if you…
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It’s Pi Day!
For the first Pi day after having started akickinthediscovery.com I figured that we should do something special! We’re going to show that the sum of the reciprocals of the squares equals… a surprise alla Euler: a surprise. *******Tangent: We call numbers like square…
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Newbie at Number Theory (Part 8): The Chinese Remainder Theorem
Do you remember when you were asked to solve a system of equations back in algebra class? In the case that you don’t here’s a brief reminder. The goal of these types of questions were to have you find a value of x…
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Newbie at Number Theory (Part 7): Euler’s Totient function
Ok, so what is this strange sounding function? (We know it must be important since it has Euler’s name attached to it.) It’s simply a function that, when given an integer , spits out how many positive integers less than are relatively prime…
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Newbie at Number Theory (Part 1.414…): Irrational Numbers
Today we are going to discuss irrational numbers, (I know strange, since we are learning number theory and number theory focuses on integers). But our goal is to understand numbers, so we should know about all types that are out there. What are…
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