A Typical courses on Calculus will contain a rudimentary introduction to series. But one might ask why study them at all? Instead of providing an answer to this question, I will be showing why they are interesting in the first place, which might motivate further investigations in some future post.
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Vectors are not just arrows
(more…)Vectors are pointy arrows in in space, at least that’s what most of us were taught. This expression does a good job describing the behavior of vectors when manipulated through scaling, addition, and transformations. However, it does not provide a good description of what vectors could represent.
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On Antifragility
(more…)Fragility is a well known concept. A glass cup is fragile to movements, leather is fragile to heat, and electronic devices are fragile to water. Fragility is the vulnerability of some object, notion, or idea to some stressor. As seen throughout Plato’s Dialogues, Socrates argues that there exists an opposite to everything in life. Adopting this view, we can deduce the opposite of the fragile. To do so, we must first define what is fragile in more philosophical terms: what is fragile is what is harmed by volatility. In such case, the opposite of fragile must be what gains from volatility. We call this opposite the Antifragile.