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Day[9]
Profile Blog Joined April 2003
United States7366 Posts
August 13 2008 06:23 GMT
#1
http://www.math.hmc.edu/seniorthesis/current/students/splott/splott-2008-thesis.pdf

yeah i know there are typos

whateverrrrr

i thought some might enjoy. it should be decently accessible to most i think

****
Whenever I encounter some little hitch, or some of my orbs get out of orbit, nothing pleases me so much as to make the crooked straight and crush down uneven places. www.day9.tv
fight_or_flight
Profile Blog Joined June 2007
United States3988 Posts
August 13 2008 06:25 GMT
#2
So what degree is this for?
Do you really want chat rooms?
randombum
Profile Blog Joined April 2007
United States2378 Posts
August 13 2008 06:26 GMT
#3
Too advanced for me
Day[9]
Profile Blog Joined April 2003
United States7366 Posts
August 13 2008 06:30 GMT
#4
mathematics
Whenever I encounter some little hitch, or some of my orbs get out of orbit, nothing pleases me so much as to make the crooked straight and crush down uneven places. www.day9.tv
BottleAbuser
Profile Blog Joined December 2007
Korea (South)1888 Posts
August 13 2008 06:33 GMT
#5
math.hmc.edu starts the link. Which means I will not touch it with a 10 foot pole.

Unless... you didn't happen to use a Starcraft analogy or simulation? If you did, I'll fucking buy a copy.
Compilers are like boyfriends, you miss a period and they go crazy on you.
ahrara_
Profile Blog Joined February 2008
Afghanistan1715 Posts
August 13 2008 06:35 GMT
#6
I remember learning the binomial coefficents. You lost me at Catalan's though.

Can you explain what your thesis was about basically?
in Afghanistan we have 20% literacy rate
micronesia
Profile Blog Joined July 2006
United States24724 Posts
Last Edited: 2008-08-13 06:46:00
August 13 2008 06:36 GMT
#7
I've been meaning to read about this exact topic! Thanks, I'll get started right away.

When you provide the initial definition of the binomial coefficient (choose) why do you avoid using the factorial symbol for simplicity? I'm not saying you did it wrong, but am just interested in the motivation behind that choice.

Edit: Have you seen the "Counting Paths through a Grid" Mathematica program?

Edit2: Here it is:

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ModeratorThere are animal crackers for people and there are people crackers for animals.
fight_or_flight
Profile Blog Joined June 2007
United States3988 Posts
August 13 2008 06:36 GMT
#8
On August 13 2008 15:30 Day[9] wrote:
mathematics

as in undergrad project, masters project for a class, masters thesis, etc
Do you really want chat rooms?
Saracen
Profile Blog Joined December 2007
United States5139 Posts
August 13 2008 06:36 GMT
#9
harvey mudd? my friend is going to harvey mudd as an incoming freshman
why waste your time writing this when you could be practicing starcraft? O_O
ooh this is interesting i'll read tomorrow
i didn't know that summing diagonally gives you fibonacci numbers!
BottleAbuser
Profile Blog Joined December 2007
Korea (South)1888 Posts
August 13 2008 06:37 GMT
#10
Catalan numbers have to do with the number of possible configurations you can have in a binary tree as the number of nodes increases. I think.

Yeah, give us a 10-word summary! I don't care if it's "we can now play starcraft .3% better, I proved it."
Compilers are like boyfriends, you miss a period and they go crazy on you.
Kennigit *
Profile Blog Joined October 2006
Canada19447 Posts
August 13 2008 06:38 GMT
#11
4.2 Kinky Proof. i loled!
thedeadhaji *
Profile Blog Joined January 2006
39489 Posts
August 13 2008 06:50 GMT
#12
my examiners gave me shit for using flowery language for my thesis lolololol fuckkk
Quesadilla
Profile Blog Joined October 2007
United States1814 Posts
Last Edited: 2008-08-13 06:59:37
August 13 2008 06:56 GMT
#13
On August 13 2008 15:36 Saracen wrote:
harvey mudd? my friend is going to harvey mudd as an incoming freshman
why waste your time writing this when you could be practicing starcraft? O_O
ooh this is interesting i'll read tomorrow
i didn't know that summing diagonally gives you fibonacci numbers!


Cause he already owned America, bought the t-shirt and quit sc before even being half way finished with Mudd. He should write a thesis called "how to rape at Beatmania" too, I'd buy.
Make a lot of friends. Wear good clothes. Drink good beer. Love a nice girl.
Liquid`Jinro
Profile Blog Joined September 2002
Sweden33719 Posts
August 13 2008 07:45 GMT
#14
i thought some might enjoy. it should be decently accessible to most i think

I didn't even understand the title :[

Moderatortell the guy that interplanatar interaction is pivotal to terrans variety of optionitudals in the pre-midgame preperatories as well as the protosstinal deterriggation of elite zergling strikes - Stimey n | Formerly FrozenArbiter
micronesia
Profile Blog Joined July 2006
United States24724 Posts
August 13 2008 07:46 GMT
#15
On August 13 2008 16:45 FrozenArbiter wrote:
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i thought some might enjoy. it should be decently accessible to most i think

I didn't even understand the title :[


Believe me, fully understanding the title of this paper is not necessarily a requisite for understanding the vast majority of the content and its implications...
ModeratorThere are animal crackers for people and there are people crackers for animals.
Heyoka
Profile Blog Joined March 2008
Katowice25012 Posts
August 13 2008 08:08 GMT
#16
This is pretty cool
@RealHeyoka | ESL / DreamHack StarCraft Lead
shavingcream66
Profile Blog Joined February 2008
United States1219 Posts
August 13 2008 08:12 GMT
#17
DAMN HMC? i'm applying there but i have like no chance
Daveed
Profile Blog Joined December 2006
United States236 Posts
August 13 2008 08:24 GMT
#18
It was a good read. Congrats on graduating; what's next?
BottleAbuser
Profile Blog Joined December 2007
Korea (South)1888 Posts
August 13 2008 08:38 GMT
#19
You're all lying. No one understands this, not even day. I refuse to acknowledge a world full of people smarter than me!

BYE FOREVER
Compilers are like boyfriends, you miss a period and they go crazy on you.
EpiK
Profile Blog Joined January 2007
Korea (South)5757 Posts
August 13 2008 08:46 GMT
#20
holy fuck you go to harvey mudd???!!!!

gg
LastWish
Profile Blog Joined September 2004
2015 Posts
August 13 2008 09:35 GMT
#21
Good job although I'm too lazy to go through all the stuff.
I have a minor in Math, after reading through this I start to remember why I abandoned it 3 years ago.
- It's all just treason - They bring me down with their lies - Don't know the reason - My life is fire and ice -
liosama
Profile Blog Joined October 2007
Australia843 Posts
August 13 2008 10:14 GMT
#22
I haven't really read any maths papers but using "we," is ok by your supervisor?

I used to be a we'er because most (physics) papers i've read through use it. Though my supervisor rages when he sees any sign of it

Free Palestine
thedeadhaji *
Profile Blog Joined January 2006
39489 Posts
August 13 2008 12:54 GMT
#23
I'm too afraid to post my thesis in public b/c apparently we're publishing this shit eventually.
sundance
Profile Blog Joined May 2004
Slovakia3201 Posts
August 13 2008 13:03 GMT
#24
Interesting reading. Is this master thesis? B/c my master thesis had more then 120 pages, but only to please examiners, otherwise it would shrink to something like 20 pages. I'm glad that I finally graduated, b/c I hated these kind of bureaucracy where you have to artificially inflate page count with some retarded shit. And this is only one example.
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds
thedeadhaji *
Profile Blog Joined January 2006
39489 Posts
August 13 2008 13:08 GMT
#25
bachelors
thedeadhaji *
Profile Blog Joined January 2006
39489 Posts
August 13 2008 13:08 GMT
#26
On August 13 2008 22:03 sundance wrote:
Interesting reading. Is this master thesis? B/c my master thesis had more then 120 pages, but only to please examiners, otherwise it would shrink to something like 20 pages. I'm glad that I finally graduated, b/c I hated these kind of bureaucracy where you have to artificially inflate page count with some retarded shit. And this is only one example.


O_O

my masters thesis had a word count limit, not a lower limit.
inlagdsil
Profile Joined May 2008
Canada957 Posts
August 13 2008 15:01 GMT
#27
Ahem, nice pictures...

Hopefully I'll understand this by next year.
There is nothing cuter than a zergling when it has just started taking crack
azndsh
Profile Blog Joined August 2006
United States4447 Posts
August 13 2008 17:05 GMT
#28
I'm reading it now
liosama
Profile Blog Joined October 2007
Australia843 Posts
August 16 2008 00:30 GMT
#29
Maths papers are usually thinner iirc, since there is so much content in one page. A formula tells a thousand words
lawl

Free Palestine
crabapple
Profile Blog Joined June 2008
United States397 Posts
August 16 2008 04:20 GMT
#30
i was always curious about this: how do u do a thesis in math? it's not like writing an opinion in humanities. so unless you discover something new in math, which i can't imagine is very frequent, aren't you basically reiterating known knowledge? how is that a thesis, rather than a compilation and demonstration that you comprehend existing knowledge?

serious question, dont read into any sarcasm or anything. there is none.
artofmagic
Profile Blog Joined March 2005
United States1951 Posts
August 16 2008 13:28 GMT
#31
On August 16 2008 13:20 crabapple wrote:
i was always curious about this: how do u do a thesis in math? it's not like writing an opinion in humanities. so unless you discover something new in math, which i can't imagine is very frequent, aren't you basically reiterating known knowledge? how is that a thesis, rather than a compilation and demonstration that you comprehend existing knowledge?

serious question, dont read into any sarcasm or anything. there is none.

im curious too
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EtherealDeath
Profile Blog Joined July 2007
United States8366 Posts
August 16 2008 19:03 GMT
#32
On August 16 2008 22:28 artofmagic wrote:
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On August 16 2008 13:20 crabapple wrote:
i was always curious about this: how do u do a thesis in math? it's not like writing an opinion in humanities. so unless you discover something new in math, which i can't imagine is very frequent, aren't you basically reiterating known knowledge? how is that a thesis, rather than a compilation and demonstration that you comprehend existing knowledge?

serious question, dont read into any sarcasm or anything. there is none.

im curious too



It's actually not that hard to discover something new in math. Just pick a topic and start developing. Of course something actually majorly important is a different story.
Night[Mare
Profile Blog Joined December 2004
Mexico4793 Posts
August 16 2008 19:11 GMT
#33
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crabapple
Profile Blog Joined June 2008
United States397 Posts
Last Edited: 2008-08-16 20:44:56
August 16 2008 20:44 GMT
#34
On August 17 2008 04:03 EtherealDeath wrote:
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On August 16 2008 22:28 artofmagic wrote:
On August 16 2008 13:20 crabapple wrote:
i was always curious about this: how do u do a thesis in math? it's not like writing an opinion in humanities. so unless you discover something new in math, which i can't imagine is very frequent, aren't you basically reiterating known knowledge? how is that a thesis, rather than a compilation and demonstration that you comprehend existing knowledge?

serious question, dont read into any sarcasm or anything. there is none.

im curious too



It's actually not that hard to discover something new in math. Just pick a topic and start developing. Of course something actually majorly important is a different story.





pic a topic and develop. im guessing that probably means not discovering a new math technique per se, but maybe discovering that a certain math concept can be applied to the thing ur looking into, or that thing behaves like a certain mathmatical model?

that's as far as my imagination takes me. can u take me further? an example would help.
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