Epistemic status: highly dubious. I found almost no literature doing anything quite like what follows, which unsettles me because it makes it likely that I'm overcomplicating things significantly. 1. Synopsis Recently I was working on an elegant problem which was the original problem 6 for the 2015 International Math Olympiad, which reads as follows: Problem… Continue reading Formal vs Functional Series (OR: Generating Function Voodoo Magic)
Tag: analysis
Things Fourier
For some reason several classes at MIT this year involve Fourier analysis. I was always confused about this as a high schooler, because no one ever gave me the ``orthonormal basis'' explanation, so here goes. As a bonus, I also prove a form of Arrow's Impossibility Theorem using binary Fourier analysis, and then talk about… Continue reading Things Fourier
Uniqueness of Solutions for DiffEq’s
Let $latex {V}&fg=000000$ be a normed finite-dimensional real vector space and let $latex {U \subseteq V}&fg=000000$ be an open set. A vector field on $latex {U}&fg=000000$ is a function $latex {\xi : U \rightarrow V}&fg=000000$. (In the words of Gaitsgory: ``you should imagine a vector field as a domain, and at every point there is… Continue reading Uniqueness of Solutions for DiffEq’s
Power Overwhelming 