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| | | | | This post assumes working knowledge of elementary number theory. Luckily for the non-mathematicians, we cover all required knowledge and notation in our number theory primer. So Three Thousand Years of Number Theory Wasn't Pointless It's often tough to come up with concrete applications of pure mathematics. In fact, before computers came along mathematics was used mostly for navigation, astronomy, and war. In the real world it almost always coincided with the physical sciences. | |
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| | | | | For a polynomial $latex \notag \phi(t) = a_kt^k + \cdots + a_1t + a_0, $ where $latex a_k\in\mathbb{C}$ for all $latex k$, the matrix polynomial obtained by evaluating $latex \phi$ at $latex A\in\mathbb{C}^{n \times n}$ is $latex \notag \phi(A) = a_kA^k + \cdots + a_1A + a_0 I. $ (Note that the constant term is... | |
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| | | | | The ``probabilistic method'' is the art of applying probabilistic thinking to non-probabilistic problems. Applications of the probabilistic method often feel like magic. Here is my favorite example: Theorem (Erdös, 1965). Call a set $latex {X}&fg=000000$ sum-free if for all $latex {a, b \in X}&fg=000000$, we have $latex {a + b \not\in X}&fg=000000$. For any finite... | |
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