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| | Pixels and polygons and shaders, oh my!
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| | We'll continue the theme of this fledgling blog along the lines of fractals, pretty pictures, spirals and Matlab. All of this neatly encapsulated in the concept of the damped and driven oscillator, alluded to somewhat scandalously in the title. In particular, for simplest conceptualisation (and maximum innuendo potential) we'll look at the humble pendulum. The...
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| | We continue Becoming anti de Sitter. Every matrix $\Xi$ in the Lie algebra o(2,2) generates one-parameter group $e^{\Xi t}$ of linear transformations of $\mathbf{R}^4.$ Vectors tangent to orbits of this group form a vector field. Let us find the formula for the vector field generated by $\Xi.
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| The following hints atwhy the quintic equation cannot be solved using radicals. It follows the approach in the first part of Ian Stewart's book "Galois Theory". If time permits, a future post will summarise the approach in V. B. Alekseev's book "Abel's Theorem in Problems and Solutions". Another candidate is Klein's book "Lectures on the...