I am not a math person by any stretch of the imagination but from what i see there is something missinf in higher level math calc. a number or something I dont know can someone agree with me or say i am wrong maybe just a rant or i am totally wrong thanks for your time
2006-07-01 14:04:21 · 8 answers · asked by kurt t 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Mathematics
Umm maybe but uhhh we don't know what to look at. Math is broad and you are asking us to look at it for a missing number?
2006-07-01 14:07:52 · answer #1 · answered by WDubsW 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you are talking about the real numbers, then there is something missing; â(-1). Once you add this (and all linear combinations of it) to the reals, you get the complex numbers. Once you reach these, there is nothing more to add.
To the person that suggested just adding another number like they did to create the complex numbers, you are missing some facts. The real numbers are not algebraically closed. That means that you con come up with a polynomial in the reals (such as x^2+1) with no roots in the reals. There are no real solutions to x^2+1=0. Therefore we adjoin the â(-1) and get the complex numbers.
Now, why don't we just do that to the complex numbers? Because the complex numbers are algebraically closed. This is known as the Fundamental Theorem of Algebra: for every polynomial with coefficients in the complex numbers, it's roots are also in the complex numbers.
There is no number to add to the complex numbers.
If you are talking about something else, you need to be more specific.
2006-07-02 06:02:05 · answer #2 · answered by Eulercrosser 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I would be impressed if you are right.
Calculus was invented around 1700, and most of what I've seen was fully developed in the 1800's.
If you take all of math from the dawn of recorded time to 1900 and compare it in volume to the math from 1900 on, there is more development after 1900 than in all of recorded history before that.
If there were a fundamental flaw in something as elementary as calculus then it would most likely have come out. Hundreds of thousands of disturbingly perceptive and intelligent people have hammered out mathematics into the form it is today.
That said, if you understand calculus well, clearly, and unambiguously, and you see a flaw, get a few mathematicians of integrity to look at it, and get published.
A fun read is "Srinivasa Ramunajan". This guy from the boonies of 3rd world india revolutionized number theory. Ever since him, many math departments are open to hearing crackpots talk about math in the hopes of finding another Ramunajan.
2006-07-01 21:38:57 · answer #3 · answered by Curly 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
well i used to think the guy who made complex numbers had no **** in life to do so he threw in another dimension. so why not get it a third part as well so that all the little kiddies can go through hell too. but then you realise that math is created when you really need it to explain something. i know im not quite clear with the point im making so ill just say that necessity is the granddaddy of invention.
2006-07-01 21:14:49 · answer #4 · answered by shineitallaround 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm a math person, and yes, I have to agree there is something missing is mathematics.
I'm not sure what you're saying though. Be more specific.
2006-07-01 21:36:15 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
i'm not a math person either, but at least i paid attention in English class
2006-07-01 21:17:16 · answer #6 · answered by jilli 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
you need to be more specific.
2006-07-01 21:14:18 · answer #7 · answered by akknaley 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Missing what you are talking about. Please be more specific.
2006-07-01 21:08:08 · answer #8 · answered by iiboogeymanii 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋