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If anyone was wondering what that next number was in the sequence, the sequence for the problem given is https://oeis.org/A076912 https://oeis.org/A076912 and i
by drostie 10y ago
If anyone was wondering what that next number was in the sequence, the sequence for the problem given is https://oeis.org/A076912 https://oeis.org/A076912 and it is now known to begin,
5, 2875, 609250, 317206375, 242467530000, 229305888887625, 248249742118022000, 295091050570845659250, 375632160937476603550000,
503840510416985243645106250, ...
If you want a few more details you might check out https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/index.php/Clemens'_conjecture https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/index.php/Clemens'_conjec... but of course mirror symmetries have whole textbooks devoted to them nowadays, one of which the Clay Mathematics institute has released to the public [PDF warning: http://www.claymath.org/library/monographs/cmim01c.pdf http://www.claymath.org/library/monographs/cmim01c.pdf].
- jcoffland 10y agoThanks for the link. On page three this book refers to "high school vector calculus." Who studied vector calculus in high school?
- semi-extrinsic 10y agoI understand "vector calculus" here as meaning "how to compute stuff with vectors", i.e. adding and subtracting vectors, computing the inner product etc.; not doing calculus with vectors. Obviously both interpretations are possible, but the latter is usually called multidimensional analysis.
- theoh 10y agoSurely (multidimensional) analysis is the term used in mathematics for a more rigorous investigation of the basis of calculus. In physics, vector calculus is taught as a tool and the course is called vector calculus (or maybe multivariable calculus.)
- srtjstjsj 10y agoThe book uses "calculus" several times to mean "derivatives and integrals"
- tyoverby 10y agoIt was the last unit in senior math at my high school.
- qmalzp 10y agoEuropeans
- babayega2 10y agoEven African
- OscarCunningham 10y agoThis is a pretty common joke/expression among mathematicians i.e. "As you all know from kindergarten abelian groups are just monoidal groupoids with a single object" or whatever.
- srtjstjsj 10y agoPeople who grow up to attend graduate schoool in the study of mathematical methods of physics
- pizza 10y agoProbably anyone who took a more than introductory physics class. Not me, though.
- maverick_iceman 10y agoAP courses have vector calculus.
- zodiac 10y agoI did
- chakalakasp 10y agoThat's numberwang!