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what is your most memorable math/science moment? mine is understanding euler's identity as a highschooler

>> No.7923962

>>7923958
I will hunt you down, I will find you and I will kill you.

>> No.7923963

>>7923962
Oh shit! You dun goofed now, monkeyposter!

>> No.7923967
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7923967

Understanding that 1<9

>> No.7923986

The first new result I proved during my REU

Ultimately it didn't make it into the article we published, but I still think it was a cute argument.

>> No.7924007

>>7923967
I don't think that's true. Can you prove that by contradiction and again with induction?

>> No.7924064

>>7924007
Define an order on natural numbers: [math]a<b[/math] iff [math]\exists n:n\neq 0 \wedge a+n=b[/math]
It's easy to check that [math]a<S(a)[/math], and that [math]a<b[/math] and [math]b<c[/math] imply [math]a<c[/math].

If we're defining [math]9:=S(S(S(S(S(S(S(S(1))))))))[/math], then by iterated application of the rules above we see that [math]1<9[/math].

Q.E.D

>> No.7924962

>>7923958

When I learned that the green color of plants was due to chlorophyll

When I learned that the cells could commit suicide themselves (apoptosis)

1995 and the discovery of the first extrasolar planet

When I heard that the fall of leaves in autumn was a process of the plant itself and not a result or a "wound" of the environment

>> No.7925016

>>7923958
When someone keeps posting that FUCKING GORILLA IMAGE.

Can't you fucking stop?

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7925024

>>7925016

It's perfect

>> No.7925322

>>7924064
Nobody defines 9 like that.

>> No.7925338

>>7925322
Sorry, but everyone defines 9 like that.
How do you define 9?

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7925340

>>7925016
>tfw 6 ouf of 13 threads in the first page are gorilla threads.

>> No.7925434

>>7923958
>Black chick goes off on her shitty pre-med lab partner in that lightning fast coon speak only they can do
>As I'm dying I see my terrorist professor literally on the floor dying as well.

>> No.7925451

>>7925016
the fuck? does this look like instagram or whatever norm social media crap that style of writing is from? how about you fuck off.

>> No.7925457

>>7923958
When I learned[math]\sqrt2[/math].

>> No.7925465

>>7923962
kek

>> No.7925500 [DELETED] 

>12 gorilla threads on the catalog

>> No.7925518

>>7925500
these arent even funny gorilla threads they are just forced meme shitposts that use the gorilla pictures to get more replies

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7925578

Seeing a board full of haughty freshman getting fanny flustered by an army of pondering gorilla pictures is meme magic at its finest. Thank you gorillas.

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7925984

when I had a professor who said
> purr-abra
> equi-rrib-rium
it was ylyl every time

>> No.7926338

>>7923958
I only learnt eulers identity in second year of university and I still don't understand it. damn you smartypants

>> No.7926928

>>7926338
theres like 15 minute youtube videos going great jobs at explaining it anon. i learned it from there

>> No.7926936

>>7923958
>>7926928

seeing the taylor series of it doesnt equal understanding why its true

>> No.7927030

>>7926936
The series you see ARE the godfucking definitions of exp sine and cosine, dipshit. How do YOU define e^x for irrational x? Linear interpolation?

>> No.7927065

>>7927030
i assume you mean for complex x
i meant to understand it by understanding that complex exponensiation (spelling) is about rotation

this guy explains it very well
https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/3urtbh/mathematics_shouldnt_any_constant_raised_to_the/cxhf0n9

>> No.7927518

>>7923958
Publishing my first journal paper as primary author.

>> No.7927828

>>7926936
nigga you can prove the identity using basic calc 1 polar coordinates, integration, and derivation

>> No.7927839

>>7923958
understanding Maxwell's equations

>> No.7927864

>>7923958
>cue the big bang theory laugh track