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Talk about derivative work!
by ramine 16y ago
Talk about derivative work!
- jacoblyles 16y agoActually group theory is discrete and algebraic.
- dododo 16y agoi'm not sure what you mean by discrete. SO(3) (the group of rotations) is not discrete in any sense i can think of. some groups have a discrete topology, but not all by any means... are you referring to cayley's theorem?
- jacoblyles 16y agoDiscrete as in you'll never take a derivative of anything, so the parent pun comment is meaningless. At least in the subset of group theory I studied, no continuous functions were used which are the only objects that derivatives are defined on. In other news, (bad) pun threads have come to hacker news. I guess it was always a matter of time.
- ethaneade 16y agoIt so happens that SO(3), being a Lie group, has a well-defined space of derivatives: its associated Lie algebra so(3) [notice lower case]. In fact, the generators of the group fundamentally arise from the derivatives of rotations around the identity. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lie_group#The_Lie_algebra_associated_to_a_Lie_group http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lie_group#The_Lie_algebra_assoc...
- cschneid 16y agoThis has been the worst pun-thread ever.
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