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Religion, Sets, and Politics: June 2011
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Religion, Sets, and Politics. Joshua Zelinsky's blog on three things that you can't talk about in polite company: religion, politics and math. Wednesday, June 29, 2011. Why I am a feminist. I self-identify as a feminist.I think human males in general should self-identify as feminists. If we want to live in a society that is as technologically and scientifically advanced as can be, we must support feminism. I don't self-identify as a feminist out of some deep ideological grounding. I don't have any st...
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Religion, Sets, and Politics: Non-transitice dice
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Religion, Sets, and Politics. Joshua Zelinsky's blog on three things that you can't talk about in polite company: religion, politics and math. Friday, April 4, 2008. Transitivity is a nice property and people like it when it occurs. Relationships that are transitive have the general property that A B and B C implies A C. For example, if A is greater than B, and B is greater than C, then A is greater than B. Beats die B (1,2,3,4) since 4/5ths of the time A yields a higher result than B. A = (1,1,4). The b...
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Religion, Sets, and Politics: Fermat's Little Theorem, Euler's Generalization and Artin Representations
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Religion, Sets, and Politics. Joshua Zelinsky's blog on three things that you can't talk about in polite company: religion, politics and math. Tuesday, July 9, 2013. Fermat's Little Theorem, Euler's Generalization and Artin Representations. I know I haven't been blogging for a while, but I'm happy to give a brief update here of why I haven't along with some fun number theory. Now, why am I thinking about this result? Α) A draft of that paper can be found here. First, one needs to strengthen the condition...
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Religion, Sets, and Politics: May 2011
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Religion, Sets, and Politics. Joshua Zelinsky's blog on three things that you can't talk about in polite company: religion, politics and math. Sunday, May 29, 2011. Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality. I've mentioned Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality. So if you aren't reading it yet, go and read. Links to this post. Friday, May 20, 2011. A brief note on the Rapture. Links to this post. Tuesday, May 17, 2011. Multiplicative functions and almost division. Yes Let σ(n) be the sum of the po...
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Religion, Sets, and Politics: September 2011
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Religion, Sets, and Politics. Joshua Zelinsky's blog on three things that you can't talk about in polite company: religion, politics and math. Monday, September 12, 2011. A brief note on non-transitive dice. I've talked before about non-transitive dice. During a recent discussion. I used non-transitive dice as an example of a counter-intuitive aspect of mathematics, I was pointed to an even weirder variant. Links to this post. Thursday, September 1, 2011. It looks like the last of my siblings has no ente...
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Religion, Sets, and Politics: November 2011
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Religion, Sets, and Politics. Joshua Zelinsky's blog on three things that you can't talk about in polite company: religion, politics and math. Monday, November 7, 2011. A quick note on log odds. Links to this post. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). A quick note on log odds. The blog with the serial comma is the active one. View my complete profile. Dispatches from the Culture Wars. Savage: EPA Administrator Looks Like Nazi Guard. Heuristic computation of correlations of higher order divisor functions.
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Religion, Sets, and Politics: October 2011
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Religion, Sets, and Politics. Joshua Zelinsky's blog on three things that you can't talk about in polite company: religion, politics and math. Wednesday, October 12, 2011. Occupy Wall Street, Boundaries, and Gratuitous Promotion of Family Members. My sister has a piece up at the Huffington Post discussing exactly how Occupy Wall Street lost her sympathy. Where various economic policies (some good, some bad) are justified simply by the existence of protesters. Protesters in this context are evidence o...
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Religion, Sets, and Politics: July 2013
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Religion, Sets, and Politics. Joshua Zelinsky's blog on three things that you can't talk about in polite company: religion, politics and math. Tuesday, July 9, 2013. Fermat's Little Theorem, Euler's Generalization and Artin Representations. I know I haven't been blogging for a while, but I'm happy to give a brief update here of why I haven't along with some fun number theory. Now, why am I thinking about this result? Α) A draft of that paper can be found here. Links to this post. The blog with the serial...
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Religion, Sets, and Politics: A brief note on non-transitive dice
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Religion, Sets, and Politics. Joshua Zelinsky's blog on three things that you can't talk about in polite company: religion, politics and math. Monday, September 12, 2011. A brief note on non-transitive dice. I've talked before about non-transitive dice. During a recent discussion. I used non-transitive dice as an example of a counter-intuitive aspect of mathematics, I was pointed to an even weirder variant. Intuitively, I think the answer is yes. Im playing with A=(12,12,2) B=(8,8,8) C=(16,3,3). ...Do a ...