(January 4, 2018 at 8:25 am)polymath257 Wrote:(January 3, 2018 at 10:51 pm)Kernel Sohcahtoa Wrote: My apologies, polymath. I'm afraid that I have zero ability/talent for math (nor am I any type of intellectual): I'm just a random guy who finds math interesting and wants to gain a basic understanding of it. Based on your credentials, I'm pretty sure that I'd bore you or any serious student of mathematics. With that said, there are certainly highly intelligent forum members here and members who are good at math, so I hope that you are able to meet them. Thanks for joining AF, sir.
Fair enough. But know that I am always willing to answer questions. If you don't want full solutions, I can usually point a direction.
Welcome. There are a number of sock puppet creators that wander these here parts such that there is a certain cynicism about new members (I got a bit of that too), don't much worry about that. Proof of the pudding shall be in the eating thereof. I joined here on foot of chasing one such lying sock puppet around the internet (PGJ anyone?). PGJ, is a prolific internet crank. I have lost track of how many socks he has created here and on other sites.
A close friend of mine is a PhD in math also. The stereotype annoys him as much as I suspect it does you. Take it in good nature. My friends nickname is "traitor" because, while he worked at various interesting things such as weather/climate modeling, he now works for a seriously important financial institution. But no worries, another friend has a PhD in Biotechnology. His thesis was in the action of bacteria in the production of cheese of all things. Inevitably, he is known as "Dr. Cheese" for the last several decades.
