Think Like a Mathematician with Baby Rudin's first two pages

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  • @robertstuckey6407
    @robertstuckey6407 10 місяців тому +7

    I am also difficult and lacking motivation which is why i love Baby Rudin

  • @mzg147
    @mzg147 10 місяців тому +5

    Nega You is just Me, thank you!

    • @academyofuselessideas
      @academyofuselessideas  10 місяців тому +2

      we all are Nega you sometimes! (though, maybe I should include Nega Slim as a character too)

  • @lantzevongkorad4084
    @lantzevongkorad4084 10 місяців тому +5

    Math being hard is not a bug; it is a feature.

  • @AutoDisheep
    @AutoDisheep 10 місяців тому +3

    I just read 3 chapters of Baby Rudin, and I am beginning to ask questions myself. "Why am I punishing myself with pure mathematics?"

    • @academyofuselessideas
      @academyofuselessideas  10 місяців тому +3

      If it feels like punishment, i would say, Don't do it... but as self punishment goes, math is not the worst

    • @covariance5446
      @covariance5446 10 місяців тому +3

      Perhaps you have discovered that you are a masochist. Once again, math is teaching us about ourselves!

    • @academyofuselessideas
      @academyofuselessideas  10 місяців тому

      @@covariance5446 🤣🤣🤣

  • @Miguel14159
    @Miguel14159 5 місяців тому

    Assume a maximum exists, let m = p/q be that max number.
    pick n = p/q + 1/(4pq)
    notice that n^2 < 2 and m < n. Contradiction.

    • @academyofuselessideas
      @academyofuselessideas  5 місяців тому

      Thanks for sharing your solution!
      Unfortunately, 🤔 I don't follow 🤔 i think that you can choose p and q such that n^2 > 2. But i am not sure, i am a little confused by the definition of n, is it n= p/q + pq/4 or is it n=p/q + 1/(4pq) or is it n=p/q+q/(4p) or something else? It might work though! i will need to think about it more! Thanks again!

    • @Miguel14159
      @Miguel14159 5 місяців тому +1

      @@academyofuselessideas
      Let A = {m in Q such that m^2 < 2}
      I showed that this set doesnt have maximum. Suppose m = p/q is the maximum.
      We have m^2 p^2 < 2q^2
      If n= p/q + 1/(4pq)
      n^2 = p^2 /q^2 + 1/(2q^2) + 1/(4pq)^2
      It is clear that
      1/2 + 1/(4p)^2 < 1 p^2/q^2 +1/(2q^2) +1/(4pq)^2 < 2
      --> (p/q+1/(4pq))^2 < 2
      Then m

    • @academyofuselessideas
      @academyofuselessideas  5 місяців тому

      @@Miguel14159 thanks for the detailed explanation... cool! i think that in the first message, the parenthesis 1/(4pq) would be helpful! (maybe you can still edit it?) Anyways, the explanation is pretty informative... thanks!

  • @erythsea
    @erythsea 8 місяців тому +1

    Great video, my real analysis prof used this textbook. I dropped the course 😎💪

    • @academyofuselessideas
      @academyofuselessideas  8 місяців тому +2

      😅 I blame your professor! Rudin is a decent good if you have someone explaining the motivations and ideas behind the topics... Luckily now you can get a lot of great insights from people online! (A few years ago, professors were the only source of information which made learning a bit harder!)
      I like Real analysis by Jay Cummings because he gives a lot of motivations and the writing is very friendly for self study (just in case you still want to learn the topic). Also feel free to ask if you have any question, I may not know the answer but sharing your pain sometimes helps!

    • @erythsea
      @erythsea 8 місяців тому +2

      @@academyofuselessideas i did like rudins book, my prof just didn’t go into motivations just straight into proofs. I hate saying it but he was not a good teacher. Otherwise it was so cool to learn about infimum,supremum, Archimedes principle. One day I will do the textbook on my own 🤞😁

    • @academyofuselessideas
      @academyofuselessideas  8 місяців тому

      @@erythsea I am looking forward to read your book! or at least your writting on those subjects (or any other subject you decide to write about!)

    • @erythsea
      @erythsea 8 місяців тому +2

      @@academyofuselessideas haha I’m not smart enough to write math textbook. I meant go through baby rudin on my own 😁

    • @academyofuselessideas
      @academyofuselessideas  8 місяців тому

      @@erythsea Oh, feel free to ask for any help you may need reading it... I have thought about giving a series of streams on analysis, but I am not sure if i will ever do