I dunno but I feel like there should be some sort or relation, maybe with the area of the triangles https://preview.redd.it/gvk38vv74kwc1.png?width=382&format=png&auto=webp&s=0e8867cbcccd148289047dbe35122a82564e40b5 submitted by /u/purdoo_ [visit reddit] [comments ..read more

I am brushing up on my programming skills for working with big numbers and thought programming the Collatz Conjecture was a good place to start. One thing that has me surprised is the number of repeats in steps to get from very large numbers to 1 If I am doing it right, both of these numbers (and a lot more, a shocking amount) '10^100 + 22162' takes 1,961 steps to get to 1 '10^100 + 22163' takes 1,961 steps to get to 1 These two get to the same number after only 6 steps!?!?! I think it is correct even though one is immediately tripled and one is halved. Interestingly, 22148, 22149, 22150, 221 ..read more

i saw another post asking for your favorite math trick. i was wondering if anyone knew of any cool problems with a neat trick, preferably college algebra - calculus 2ish (integral calculus), to give to some of my friends? could be as simple as the gauss trick for adding 1-100 or up to something like the integral of ex * cosx using ibp personally, my favorite is the proof that there exists irrational numbers a and b such that ab is rational via √2 . submitted by /u/DysgraphicZ [visit reddit] [comments ..read more

astrophysics major and possible math minor here. wondering if i should take calc 3 next fall or get it done over summer. i got a B in calc one and currently have over 100% in calc two. we just finished taylor series stuff and moving to parametrics next week. i will finish the class with an A. i should also mention that i want a high grade and to learn the subject in depth. i like the idea of focusing on one class for 8 weeks instead of balancing calc 3 and mechanics over a 16 week semester. i feel like it would cancel out if i spend half a semester doing physics and half a semester doing math ..read more

I’m an undergrad junior taking a heavy load this quarter with pretty much all math classes and a grad class and it’s very difficult to do/read more than 3-4 hours of math per day outside of lectures. After a few hours, my brain literally can’t process anything properly and doing math becomes more of a chore. Usually I try to think deeply about things so I can fully understand it but more than 4 hours is getting difficult. My adhd brain’s weak working memory implodes by hour 5 Is this trainable? submitted by /u/T10- [visit reddit] [comments ..read more

This question is sort of related to "what job do you work on", but I'm interest in more especific aspects For example, should I be able to program? Be an Excel expert? Study topics in statistics? Thanks in advance submitted by /u/Eld29 [visit reddit] [comments ..read more

I have a relatively small space in which I could fit a 135cm x 90cm table, which I found to buy online. I however would like to know if I can fit 6 people confortably in it. Considering 2 people would be sitting by the smaller edges and 4 people by the bigger ones. Would this work? submitted by /u/Own_Improvement_1768 [visit reddit] [comments ..read more

Gilbert Strang is an artist in teaching (applied) linear algebra, his MIT 18.06 is brilliantly taught in a way that even someone who's into ''rigorous'' math would enjoy, after finishing the playlist I was kind of upset that there is no more to watch and I tried to look other MIT courses but nothing compares to it, so I wonder if there are other Gil Strangs to be aware of in other area of mathematics ? submitted by /u/al3arabcoreleone [visit reddit] [comments ..read more

The point I'm hung up on is the logical jump from "since there's an infinite number of waves that pass through the point" to "then there's an infinite number of frequencies". How can we make the logical leap that this implies infinite frequencies if we can only differentiate all those waves if we look at a time interval LARGER than the infinitesimal window? Also If you restrict a complex wave with many frequencies over a given interval there's always going to be an infinite number of waves you can draw that line up with the original wave over the small interval, then do something else outside ..read more

I want to self learn fuzzy mathematics, or atleast the basics of it. What would be the best books for that? And what are the prerequisites? Currently in high school and I've done calc, coordinate geometry, Combinatorics, Algebra (Binomial, Sequence and series, Theory of equations etc etc) submitted by /u/West_Profit773 [visit reddit] [comments ..read more