Sir Michael Atiyah here. Ask a famous mathematician anything

Sir Michael Atiyah here. Ask a famous mathematician anything.

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What is the square root of 69?

How do I mine for fish?

8 something

You mine for minerals and fish for fish

Well I guess nobody has any problems these days

Why are math formulas so long? Just make them shorter you old fuck

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Which formula do you have in mind? All the ones I know are fairly simple

It's in the bottom left corner, next to the triangle

Has anyone ever been so far as decided to even want to go do look more like?

Clearly underdetermined. Just move the bottom line and see the other constraints remain satisfied.

I was about to post this
also OP If my girlfriend said she needs time and space, is she trying to calculate velocity?

Not OP
I did
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No, she is trying to establish healthy boundaries within your relationship.

AFAIK, geometry is based on two things: lines and circles.

I was wondering you could define some type of 3D + time math for defining them, something like this:

Whatever is constant under rotation (over time), is round.
Whatever is constant under translation (over time) is a line.

Because I wondered whether that was the way we construct our inner 3D scene

ie. united under affine transformations

See
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homogeneous_space#Examples

>en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homogeneous_space#Examples

Could you use that to make a reproduction of a physical scene, by iteration? Recognition of objects?

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Along the lines of
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomographic_reconstruction

Not my area. But the reply seems relevant.
Supremum not defined for empty set

The reply was me too.

Ah. Well, the way we think of homogeneous spaces is as a way of constructing interesting spaces (ideally manifolds) which reflect the structure of a group.

how do you feel about the integration of computers into the mathematics field? does it make for lazy students?

>Ask a famous mathematician anything.
>mathematician
Explain the importance of calculus.

I'll read up on them. Thanks.

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Computers are a wonderful tool for learning and doing mathematics. The only downside I see is that the advent of computers has changed the public perception of mathematics -- far too many people think that maths is useless because "the computer can just do it faster"

Calculus is what we call the computational techniques associated with the study of dynamical systems with continuous state variables

Not my area.

Calculate the circumference of my balls

you said youre a mathamagician, thought you would know. I dont know this wizard shit.

Is mathematics art?

Infinitesimal.
Nope

Art tries to illuminate some deeper aspect of the nature of reality. Mathematics succeeds.

I'm pretty sure you can divide by zero. Best case it would remain the original numerator as you haven't divided it at all actually. Worst case scenario you would end up with zero. This is why we don't have space ships traveling to other galaxies already. We don't want to admit we actually can divide by zero.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rational_number#Formal_construction
Read the construction and see where that fails. Of course, you can explore the consequences of a different construction in which you can divide by zero -- some in fact work quite well, but you may be surprised at some of the consequences

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