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    I Derivative of the area is the circumference -- generalization

    You've made a choice to express the formulas in terms of the square's side length, but there's nothing wrong with expressing the formulas in terms of some other measurement of the square. The generalization is found by changing the measurement of the polygon that we express the formulas in...
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    I Derivative of the area is the circumference -- generalization

    I thought you guys might appreciate this. A lot of people notice that the derivative of area of a circle is the circle's circumference. This can be generalized to all regular polygons in a nice way.
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    Proof by induction: n^3 < n for n >=6

    Alright. And then, what remains after being factored has its largest value at k=6, and its value is smaller than any (k+1), and so I may write < k!(k+1), completing the induction.
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    Proof by induction: n^3 < n for n >=6

    Homework Statement Show that n^3 < n! for all n >= 6. Homework EquationsThe Attempt at a Solution We see that for the base case of n = 6, the claim holds. Suppose that k^3 < k! for some natural number k >= 6. Consider that: (k+1)^3 = k^3 + 3k^2 + 3k + 1 < k! + 3k^2 + 3k + 1 [By induction...
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    Website title: What Are the Most Epic Proof Phrases in Mathematics?

    So, as all of you know, it is common in mathematical proof to begin a statement within the proof with one of those phrases such as "then," or "therefore," or "and so," or "hence", "thus" etc. But sometimes, for flavor, they can get a little more smug, such as, "indeed," - my topology...
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    What are the effects of crackpot addiction on scientific discourse?

    You don't know crackpots until you've known John Gabriel. Think epic NPD and Dunning-Kruger.
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    The exclusion of empty substructures

    It's not really suggesting that it is an "improvement", I'm merely asking the question "what happens if we relax our axioms." We don't have to call this new object a group any more, it doesn't matter. Immediately, Lagrange's Theorem will no longer work, for example, and G/{} would be a quotient...
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    The exclusion of empty substructures

    Clearly, if the empty set were considered a subgroup, it would also be considered a group..
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    A strange inconsistency with square roots

    That's a pretty interesting "intuitive" explanation, but the fact does follow immediately from the distributive property.
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    A vector whose components are vectors?

    Isn't a vector whose components are vectors, a pretty natural way to think of a 2nd order tensor?
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    Can someone explain fractional calculus?

    One of the professors at my school has this as a main part of her research (looking at her publications, it appears frequently in the form of fractional differential equations). I've never done much reading into it, and it's well beyond my knowledge as well, but the example in the Wiki article...
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    The exclusion of empty substructures

    So, subspaces of vector spaces, and subgroups of groups, are not allowed to be empty. This is because "there exists an identity element". We could include the empty set in these substructures but have the definition otherwise unchanged. I'm curious as to what the consequences of such would be...
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    Do Automorphisms Preserve the Intersection of Subgroups?

    If p is an automorphism on G, and H and K are subgroups of G, does p(H intersect K) = p(H) intersect p(K)? If so, how can I show this? EDIT: nevermind
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    Integration in Calculus: Understand What It Is

    AMenendez: the integral is not a very close approximation, it is exact. The integral of sin(x) from 0 to 42 doesn't give me a very close approximation, it gives me the exact area under the curve. A Riemann sum gives an approximation to the area of the curve. The limit of the Riemann sum is the...
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    What does : mean on ProofWiki's page about normal subgroups?

    https://proofwiki.org/wiki/Intersection_with_Normal_Subgroup_is_Normal Here is a very fast proof of a well-known theorem. What is proofwiki taking ":" to mean? I take : to mean "such that", but it doesn't make any sense that way here.
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