• 2016 confirmed as the warmest year on record, warmer than 2015 by close to 0.2°C
• Global temperatures reached a peak in February 2016 around 1.5°C higher than at the start of the Industrial Revolution
• Extreme conditions impacting several regions across the Earth
https://climate.copernicus.eu/news-and-media/press-room/press-releases/earth-edge-record-breaking-2016-was-close-15°c-warming
This isn't something to gloat about, anon. This is terrible.
You can't even notice 1.5 degree, not to say about .2
Wow we're almost back up to where we were during the middle ages. Good thing we're keeping things in perspective like making a chart that doesn't include this data. Of course such a thing would be ethically wrong and disingenuous especially when you consider that global temperature has been in flux before dinosaurs roamed the earth but hey.
Anyone familiar with sports science authors for developing greatest explosivesness?
>>8593966
Von Neumann, he created Lifting Theory
>>8593968
Nice try faggot.
Can someone ID this spider? Is it a brown recluse?
>>8593096
>Is it a brown recluse?
>brown
>recluse
What the fuck, anon?! That's some problematic racist and ableist language you're using there.
I think the term you're looking for is:
>African-American autistic
Check your privilege CISHET SCUM!
>>8593102
>>8593096
It moved a little. Help. Plz no bully.
Is there any logic at all behind why mathematicians decided that the absolute value of x-2 should be negative if x < 2?
It makes no sense since absolute is supposed to make the x value positive
u wot m8
Are you drunk?
the x is gettin negativ but the y is still positive and thats what its all about! x=x ,but y=lx-2l ...
fart so hard
Convex Inscribed Square
Put a point in the center point of the convex set and draw two perpendicular lines going through it and to the edges of the set.
Let a be the length of the first line and fucking guess what b might be. Now write d = a - b. If d = 0, the proof is completed, as we can draw an inscribed square by joining each point where the lines touch the edges of the set. If not, we have that d > 0 or d < 0 (duh). Let's say we rotate the lines 90 degrees (that's 1/4th tau for all the hipsters out there) so that the first line assumes the place of the second and vice versa (shit). Then d > 0 becomes d < 0 and shit. Let's say we defined a function y(x) based on what d is based on how much we have rotated. Is y(x) continuous? Well, fucking obviously. Then just use the glorious, based IVT and we're fucking done.
QED bitches. This is the proof of that theorem I think inscribed square, no fuck, conjecture, anyway, for the special case of a convex simple closed curve. It's a theorem in that case. Cool.
neat, i'm writing that down
a -> odd
b -> even
a+b=c
c = odd
When I was on LSD, I came up with time and space being seperate things and time being subordinate to space. Since then my interest in physics has started.
While I was drunk I came up with the proof for Sylvesters determinant theorem
Can you give me some good books on differential forms?
>>8591030
The course on them at my school used "Vector Analysis" by Klaus Jänich.
Know linear algebra and basic topology before going into it.
>>8591030
do Carmo - Differential Forms and Applications
Flanders - Differential Forms with Applications to the Physical Sciences
Lovelock - Tensors, Differential Forms, and Variational Principles
Harold M. Edwards - Advanced Calculus: A Differential Forms Approach
I liked Spivak's Calculus on Manifolds. Also Singer and Thorpe's Elementary Topology and Geometry gives a decent intro and has a bunch of other cool info you can go through later on.(De Rham Cohomology, Curvature, Gauss Bonnet Theorem, etc.)
ITT: The most complex subjects in biology.
>>8589249
Obvious bait -- there are no hard subjects in biology
>>8589249
The hard problem of consciousness.
>>8589320
You're retarded, and have never advanced beyond high school biology if you think that. Post-graduate biology is full of mathematics and complexity.
what level of math do I need to have completed to begin this book?
>>8593823
Calc I-III, intro to proofs.
Advanced Calculus = Real Analysis
HS level if you're not a total brainlet, some basic understanding of calculus otherwise
>>8593845
>advanced calculus
>hs level
>/sci/
it's true though
I'm writing a story, and so far I've gone pretty far to make things set in this year 2450 story realistic, including doing math for a lot of weapons and physics. However, I'm stumped on what kind of weapon would go on the moon and mathematically be superior to other forms (i.e. lasers, kinetics, missiles) of planetary to orbital weapons. If I need to go to a different board, I will, but considering I need hard math for this, I came here.
>>8593598
Missiles, dude...
missiles.
>>8593598
>mathematically superior
>planetary to orbital
Explain please
>>8593631
Well, suppose you're on the moon, and you have a hostile fleet inbound. Which one of these is economically superior, and simultaneously more effective based on the fact that this is the moon. before you ask, there is a sizable colony reaching to about 20 million
Hello /sci/ I am here to ask a question to something you probably would rather not talk about.
>why does /sci/ hate /pol/ so much?
This hate only seems to go one way, and while I have my speculations, I'd like to hear yours as well.
I believe that one of the underlying reasons to this hate is due to the long-standing habit of science being used for political means, with scientific racism being a prime example of such. The problem I have with this answer though, is that it's intrinsically contradictory; for much of science's practices are deeply rooted in politics for self-preservation (funding) if nothing else. Is /sci/'s disdain of /pol/ a manifestation of a larger conflict? That conflict being an unwanted symbiotic relationship between the scientific community and politics?
Your input on all of this would be greatly valued.
Go away Nazi.
>>8593456
>why does /sci/ hate these obnoxious retards who bring their political shit in here?
>>8593456
The irony is that the only two places I go are /pol/ and /sci/ (with a little bit of /b/)
it's not possible in IR but is it possible in C ?
>>8593305
I believe this:
[math]sqrt(ab) = sqrt(a)*sqrt(b)[/math]
Is only valid when both a and b are non-negative.
but is it the same in complex ?
like, everything valid in IR is also valid in C wich means sqrt(ab)=sqrt(a)×sqrt(b) when they're both positive numbers, but the sqrt(-1)=i which leads to i^2=-1 is what makes the complex a new set of numbers, and therefor, it uses the old propreties of N,Z,D,Q and R and like each one of the sets, adds new propreties for itself... so idk if this is legit and correct, or breaking any rule...
[math]\sqrt x[/math] exists if and only if [math]x \,\geqslant\, 0[/math] except if your name is Pajeet.
Daily reminder that 1 - 1 + 1 - 1 +... equals 0.5.
>>8593130
[math] \mod \mathcal{R} [/math]
>>8593130
I like to think of it as the tops and bottoms of a sine wave and then its position would "average" at exactly between 1 and 0 = 0,5
>>8593229
It's still bullshit without any understanding of divergent series.
do scientists/mathematicians have to take up philosophy
Philosophy is an outdated subject.
It's what we did when we didn't have science.
>>8593048
well didn't Philosophy BTFO out of science with the death of the Vienna Logical Positvists school?
science needs philosophy
>>8593038
I feel it's the converse. Philosophy is thought driven upon mathematical logic that is pre-existing in nature.
Can anyone explain to me the difference between astronomy and astrophysics? They seem to be more or less interchangeable, or am I wrong?
astrophysics knowledge is required to be an astronomer
an astrophysicist might spend all day outside of an observatory talking to plebs
an astronomer typically spends all day alone in an observatory waiting for exposures to finish
>>8593000
The latter sounds fun, why did I become an engineer? :'(
>>8593005
because you have no personality and picked something that could make you x amount of dollars rather than something that could fulfill you spiritually
If I completed 2 years of classical music history I could impress every pleb I met by injecting my knowledge into the conversation at every possible opportunity.
How can I impress plebs with my knowledge of multi-variable calculus in the same manner?
>>8592854
You dont, no one is impressed by that.
>>8592854
calculus anything is banal
kys
>>8592858
No one is impressed by math?