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		<title>Notation lost in Space</title>
		<link>http://idiotstringtheories.wordpress.com/2009/03/17/notation-lost-in-space/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2009 22:38:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Randall J. Elzinga</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the more commonly used terms in linear algebra, and other areas that make heavy use of linear algebra, is that of a subspace.  This term, I&#8217;ve been teaching a course on linear algebra, and we&#8217;ve gotten to the chapter on subspaces.  Frequently, I end up saying X is a subspace of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=idiotstringtheories.wordpress.com&blog=946592&post=30&subd=idiotstringtheories&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Asymmetric metric</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 May 2008 01:49:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Randall J. Elzinga</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A metric on a space X is a function  from  to R satisfying the following properties

 
  if and only if 
  for all 
  for all 

The standard example of this is probably the usual Euclidean metric on Euclidean space.  Now it is easy to find &#8220;real life&#8221; [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=idiotstringtheories.wordpress.com&blog=946592&post=23&subd=idiotstringtheories&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Checking In</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 May 2008 03:30:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Randall J. Elzinga</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been quite some time since I&#8217;ve written anything to this blog.  In principle, the blog is still active, though in practice, I&#8217;ve been too busy with other things to post.  I&#8217;ve also had a number of changes in computer hardware, the consequence of which is that the files (pre-blog) that are supposed [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=idiotstringtheories.wordpress.com&blog=946592&post=22&subd=idiotstringtheories&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>New Graph Theory Book</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Feb 2008 01:45:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Randall J. Elzinga</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For years, one of the standard references in graph theory was &#8220;Graph Theory with Applications&#8221; by J.A. Bondy and U.S.R Murty, first published in 1976. More recently other texts have played that role. On November 30, 2007 a follow up to Bondy and Murty&#8217;s book, entitled simply &#8220;Graph Theory&#8221;, was published.
The blog for the book [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=idiotstringtheories.wordpress.com&blog=946592&post=21&subd=idiotstringtheories&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Wading into Wiki Waters</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Sep 2007 19:02:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Randall J. Elzinga</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Decomposition]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just made my first contribution to Wikipedia, fixing up some notation and wording in the article on Schmidt Decomposition.  There may still be some bugs to fix up there, but I corrected what I could based on what I know.  
I&#8217;m always a bit reluctant to reference Wikipedia in public, though admittedly, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=idiotstringtheories.wordpress.com&blog=946592&post=20&subd=idiotstringtheories&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Geometry of Skewness and Kurtosis?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Aug 2007 01:54:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Randall J. Elzinga</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Investigation into the standard deviation has given me more insight into why it is defined as it is. It seemed a sensible definition when I was introduced to it, but I didn&#8217;t question the motivation for defining it in that particular way, when there may have been other possibilities which, without any further explanation, seemed [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=idiotstringtheories.wordpress.com&blog=946592&post=19&subd=idiotstringtheories&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>More on Lp spaces</title>
		<link>http://idiotstringtheories.wordpress.com/2007/08/05/more-on-latex-l_p-spaces/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Aug 2007 21:15:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Randall J. Elzinga</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Generalizations]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[,  and  norms on  are commonplace and each is appropriate in certain contexts. The definitions of these easily extend to general  norms for .  Are there any contexts where an  norm for  other than  or  is appropriate?
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		<title>Geodesics</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Aug 2007 17:42:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Randall J. Elzinga</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Suppose that, instead of using the usual Euclidean norm on , we use an arbitrary -norm.  Then the distance between two points  and  is given by .  
What are the geodesics in  with the -norm?  (or in , though I suspect that answering the question in  answers the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=idiotstringtheories.wordpress.com&blog=946592&post=17&subd=idiotstringtheories&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A maximization problem</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jun 2007 20:35:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Randall J. Elzinga</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Suppose that  and  for some .  What is 
 
where  is the set of functions from  to  
That is, if two sets of numbers (possibly multisets) sum to numbers  and , what is the maximum sum of products of pairs of numbers, where each pair contains exactly one [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=idiotstringtheories.wordpress.com&blog=946592&post=16&subd=idiotstringtheories&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>LaTeX to LaTeX</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 May 2007 00:01:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Randall J. Elzinga</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It seems that this blog is deviating from its intended purpose before it has actually been used for its intended purpose.  I do have a question.  It&#8217;s just not about math.
Is there a script or program that will take a  document consisting of many files (using the \include and \input commands) to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=idiotstringtheories.wordpress.com&blog=946592&post=14&subd=idiotstringtheories&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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