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Hey buds Anonymous Sun Feb 5 14:04:02 2017 No.8653893 [Reply] [Original]

What is your favorite topic in mathematics and why is it Number Theory?

>>	Anonymous Sun Feb 5 14:09:27 2017 No.8653905 >>8653893 Number Theory is good, but it is just a trivial subset of the best topic in mathematics: Algebra. All questions asked about integers can be generalized into questions about infinite rings.

>>	Anonymous Sun Feb 5 14:10:09 2017 No.8653909 Inter-universal Teichmüller theory

>>	Anonymous Sun Feb 5 14:19:09 2017 No.8653924 >>8653893 Geometry. Almost everything is geometry in some way, shape, or form.

>>	Anonymous Sun Feb 5 14:22:09 2017 No.8653932 >>8653905 there's far more to number theory than integers

>>	Anonymous Sun Feb 5 14:30:21 2017 No.8653948 File: 67 KB, 1564x282, nt.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>8653932 >there's far more to number theory than integers

>>	Anonymous Sun Feb 5 14:36:43 2017 No.8653958 >>8653948 >primarily >implying there is more than just integers Why do you do this to yourself

>>	Anonymous Sun Feb 5 14:37:00 2017 No.8653959 >>8653893 Any part of mathematics that I can directly apply to my area of study (cryptography).

>>	Anonymous Sun Feb 5 14:37:34 2017 No.8653960 >>8653932 >there's far more to number theory than integers Yeah, they also tend to study rational numbers and some structures that are derived from integers. BIG DEAL It is still a subset of Algebra. Just like your IQ is a subset of my IQ.

>>	Anonymous Sun Feb 5 14:48:54 2017 No.8653985 >>8653960 how are zeta functions a subset of algebra?

>>	Anonymous Sun Feb 5 15:03:56 2017 No.8654004 >>8653985 Zeta functions are defined by varieties, varieties are defined by rings.

>>	Anonymous Sun Feb 5 15:10:36 2017 No.8654009 >>8654004 >>8654004 >Zeta functions are defined by varieties [citation needed]

>>	Anonymous Sun Feb 5 15:13:54 2017 No.8654013 >>8654009 >[citation needed] [citation needed]

>>	Anonymous Sun Feb 5 15:35:09 2017 No.8654043 >>8654009 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arithmetic_zeta_function

>>	Anonymous Sun Feb 5 15:36:22 2017 No.8654049 File: 59 KB, 639x388, pi-1.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>8653893 Hey mathfags, can you redpill me on the Collatz Conjecture? What does it mean? Is it some hidden pattern in numbers? Why can't we crack it?

>>	Anonymous Sun Feb 5 15:38:11 2017 No.8654055 >>8654009 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arithmetic_zeta_function I should have said Schemes, (varieties are the case only sometimes), but the point still holds.

>>	Anonymous Sun Feb 5 16:04:31 2017 No.8654120 >>8654055 >all zeta functions are arithmetic zeta functions wrong, the point doesn't hold

>>	Anonymous Sun Feb 5 16:37:46 2017 No.8654196 >>8654120 All the ones relevant to number theory are.

>>	Anonymous Sun Feb 5 16:40:54 2017 No.8654206 >>8654196 >All the ones relevant to number theory are. are you even trying? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_zeta_functions

>>	Anonymous Sun Feb 5 16:56:19 2017 No.8654237 >>8654206 and how many of those have anything to do with number theory?

>>	Anonymous Sun Feb 5 17:14:46 2017 No.8654261 >>8654049 shut UP!