Strange Math You've Never Seen

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  • čas přidán 6. 08. 2024
  • In this video I will show you a book that contains tons of really cool math. The book focuses on special functions, which are functions that you might see in certain physics or engineering courses. If you take a course like partial differential equations you will also see some special functions. In this video I talk a little bit about the book and then discuss infinite products. I actually do an example where we find an infinite product. I picked an example that hopefully you can understand if you have had some calculus. The pre-reqs for this book are a full calculus sequence(calc 1 through calc 3) and a course on differential equations. This book was used to teach a course of advanced undergraduate students and graduate students. The book is called Special Functions and it was written by Larry Andrews.
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    0:00 Discussing the Book
    3:29 Defining the Infinite Product
    6:25 Computing an Infinite Product
    12:01 Finishing Up
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Komentáře • 568

  • @algorythmis4805
    @algorythmis4805 Před rokem +415

    At 5:30 it's "and" instead of "or"!

    • @TheMathSorcerer
      @TheMathSorcerer  Před rokem +120

      Oh wow yes can’t believe I did that. Gonna pin this comment. Thank you.

    • @Fircasice
      @Fircasice Před rokem +21

      That makes much more sense, thank you!

    • @alexfekken7599
      @alexfekken7599 Před rokem +7

      Also, writing something like "P < \infinity" as a way of actually meaning that a limit exists and is finite is a bit sloppy too...

    • @SuperYoonHo
      @SuperYoonHo Před rokem +3

      @@TheMathSorcerer Hahaha

    • @hOREP245
      @hOREP245 Před rokem +3

      @@alexfekken7599 I don't think that's sloppy at all. It's just a shorthand, and when you consider extended real valued functions it means exactly what it says, that it is finite.

  • @magnusbruce4051
    @magnusbruce4051 Před rokem +382

    Ah, Bessel functions (and spherical harmonics) were part of my second year in my physics degree. The lecturer spent about two full hours talking about spherical harmonics only for me to completely not understand even the vague idea of what we were doing. In the end, a group of us asked him outside of a lecture to show it again but slowly. Being the great guy and great lecturer that he is, he spent a further hour with us in his own time. He also said that the moment anyone gets lost, just stop him and ask him to go over it. I think after that hour we all had a better understanding than most of the rest of the cohort.

    • @jimsmith6937
      @jimsmith6937 Před rokem +15

      +1 on the Bessel functions......who new I would rediscover them in RF design?

    • @magnusbruce4051
      @magnusbruce4051 Před rokem +6

      @@jimsmith6937 As far as I remember, I never used them again but maybe some other students that later specialised in theoretical physics or solar physics or something like that did need the knowledge. I reckon, at least for me, we were taught this stuff as a way of getting at least some practical application of being to handle infinite sums of sinusoidal components, and then that lead into the next module which was largely about Fourier methods.
      Even then, I didn't have to do any Fourier transforms after the exam for that module. I 'specialised' (for want of a better word) in experimental physics simply because that was the default and I couldn't pick a specialism. I ended up doing a masters and PhD in volcanology but in both of then, my main focus was experimental exploration of material properties.

    • @theyhatedHimcuzHetoldtheTruth
      @theyhatedHimcuzHetoldtheTruth Před rokem +7

      My professors would literally just say "theres this book called nvfjnvjfrnvfr, look it up, I have better things to do now".

    • @Liberty2357
      @Liberty2357 Před rokem

      Watch someone poke a water balloon in slow motion.

    • @Zalemones1
      @Zalemones1 Před rokem +1

      @@jimsmith6937 Surprisingly, modified bessel functions of the 1st kind show up in the analysis of strong non-linearities of junction transistor amplifiers

  • @BeholderThe1st
    @BeholderThe1st Před rokem +265

    This course would weed out 50% of the engineering majors when I was taking my degree. This for people who had already done Calc 1-3+ courses. I'd often describe it as the math that even mathematicians don't do.

    • @BitwiseMobile
      @BitwiseMobile Před rokem +27

      It depends on the discipline really. Not all of these equations are for all disciplines. Maxwell's equations, for example, are probably only going to be used for electrical engineering. Whereas something like numerical integration will be found in physics engines and physics emulators (and maybe even in stock market AI), Differential equations is a wide field and it has applications just about everywhere.

    • @mb2776
      @mb2776 Před rokem +4

      @@BitwiseMobile I saw some yt video on QM and maxwell's equations are apperently still used there cause of particle wave duality, describing QED and fields.

    • @marcusrosales3344
      @marcusrosales3344 Před rokem +5

      @@mb2776 Maxwell's equations pop up in QED, but they are contained in the field tensor. Basically it all surrounds the idea of guage invariance.
      The jargon is you minimally couple a U(1) guage field to some field theory by introducing a covariant derivative and identify the connection with the vector potential. We can make this vector potential dynamical by introducing a guage invariant term, being the field tensor!

    • @marcusrosales3344
      @marcusrosales3344 Před rokem +2

      I had to use the confluent geometric functions to solve a Schrodinger eq. Every last one of those functions pops up in physics, most in your undergrad. Many representations of these functions also pop up as integrals when calculating propagators. I've seen them in numerical analysis, and other ones, for interpolation and quadrature.

    • @tHaH4x0r
      @tHaH4x0r Před rokem +3

      @@BitwiseMobile Although in general I agree with you, I disagree on numerical integration. Numerical integration is found in a lot of general science/engineering and data processing, and extremely useful knowledge to have.

  • @alanmueller4633
    @alanmueller4633 Před rokem +31

    This reminded me of a book in my library. When I worked at NASA JSC in the early 70's they had a technical book store where employees could buy books at discounted rates. I bought "Handbook of Mathematical Functions with Formulas, Graphs, and MathematicalTables" by Abramowtiz and Stegun. It was published by the US Department of Commerce, has a total of 1046 pages and all this before hand calculators. Still has the original price tag at $12.65

    • @paulpayton1348
      @paulpayton1348 Před rokem +1

      Ah, yes. AMS 55. I have it in hardcover and softcover. Best thing since Jahnke und Emde. You can get it cheap from Dover Publications. Good choice!

  • @wealthelife
    @wealthelife Před rokem +112

    This textbook gives me flashbacks of doing applied maths and chemical engineering in the 80s ;)
    ps. The student/textbook version often only had 'answers' to about 5%-10% of the problems so that students could be assigned Qs that they couldn't look up the answer. If you want all the answers there was often a 'teacher's manual' version of the textbook that provided answers to every exercise Q. Might be hard to find a copy though ;)

  • @danielmrosser
    @danielmrosser Před rokem +150

    The book by W W Bell is also an excellent reference on tue topic special functions nearly all of these functions generally arise out of a study of well-known differential equations from physics

  • @gheffz
    @gheffz Před rokem +11

    Thanks for the infinitive product example and simplification approach you used. By the way, the GAMMA function is one of my favourites. Thank you for showing this book. _(And yes, it is very well made... and I can see the layout is very readable, clear and uncluttered.)_

  • @69erthx1138
    @69erthx1138 Před rokem +42

    This is a great book. Larry Andrews is an emeritus professor at UCF CREOL. He's very nice guy. I knew one of doctoral students Olga Korotkova.

  • @Twisted_Logic
    @Twisted_Logic Před rokem +49

    Oh man, some of those chapter titles bring me back to my engineering and physics classes. A lot of them we wouldn't actually calculate ourselves, rather we were encouraged to buy a book of tables (Schaum's Mathematical Handbook of Formulas and Tables, to be specific) with solved general forms and the object would basically be to finagle the problem into something resembling one of the forms and use that to solve things like Bessel functions.
    ...at least until we got to Math Methods, which I could totally see this being a textbook for.

    • @jeffmackey529
      @jeffmackey529 Před rokem +1

      Abromowitz and Stegun or Gradshteyn and Ryzhil!

    • @thedeadbatterydepot
      @thedeadbatterydepot Před rokem

      Yes broken question, the final part of the video with the question wrong, with first 1/2 × 3/2 with brackets, goes 3/2,8/3,15/4, he cancelled cross multiply out of the original brackets with the above formula, k= 2/1 + 0/1 is added with no balance in the Infinite formula. K=2/2

  • @willk7184
    @willk7184 Před rokem +12

    I'm sometimes amazed humans have attained such levels of higher knowledge. I think we take some of it for granted since it almost seems commonplace. But the people who worked it out and passed it to the next generation are brilliant.

  • @romancandlefight1144
    @romancandlefight1144 Před rokem +51

    I appreciate how you kept in every step of the solution. My teachers back in school would always skip a bunch and only the nerds would be able to keep up

  • @tejarex
    @tejarex Před rokem +32

    A reason to only allow positive factors is so that the infinite product is equivalent to an infinite sum of logs of the factors. Allowing negative factors only adds non-essential complications. A corresponding reason to call a limit of 0 divergent is that it corresponds to the log sum diverging to -infinity.

    • @josantonioalcantara
      @josantonioalcantara Před rokem

      Makes complete sense, since you are able to develop convergence criteria of products by using and reinterpreting those for series.

    • @hamc9477
      @hamc9477 Před rokem +1

      Of course!

    • @josantonioalcantara
      @josantonioalcantara Před rokem

      I can’t see no other essential reason why the limit zero is divergent, are there others?

  • @geraldwellborn5047
    @geraldwellborn5047 Před rokem +6

    Very nice. I appreciate you working out the problem as an example. I have not worked these types types of problems since 1977 when I was in a DE class. It brought memories. Thank you

  • @RobertMertensPhD
    @RobertMertensPhD Před rokem +41

    I have this book and I know Dr. Andrews. And he knows me. When it comes to higher level mathematics he was probably one of the best math teachers I've known. I have three of his books, the other two are Mathematical Techniques for Engineers and Scientists, and Elementary Partial Differential Equations.
    If you want to see some harder problems, look up the gamma function....
    Actually, I used this gamma function to solve a real world problem in diffusion in 2D quantum wires. This particular problem also involved Legendre polynomials, a Heaviside function, a Fourier Series, all buried inside of a differential equation which was buried inside of an integral which came in two parts.
    It was fun. It took me six months to figure it out, but it was fun.

  • @raptornein2422
    @raptornein2422 Před rokem +4

    Awesome video! I subbed forever ago when I was in Calc 3, and since then the number of videos I watch has dropped, but this one has peaked my interest yet again. I forgot how cool Calc 2 was!!

  • @HansBezemer
    @HansBezemer Před rokem +22

    It's nice to see some familiar faces in these books! I did floating point implementations of Beta, incomplete Beta and Error functions for the Forth Scientific Library. But for my own compiler I did a lot more. I especially like Gamma functions - especially the "weird" ones, like Ramanujan and Cristinel Mortici approximations.

    • @evanurena8868
      @evanurena8868 Před rokem +1

      I also like Gamma functions and thet have some very interesting properties as mellin transforms, which is rarely taught in topics of special functions. For some time, ive also been pondering about combinatorial idenities being expressed as gamma functions with the use of the gamma factorial.

  • @paroperha
    @paroperha Před rokem +28

    It makes me so happy to see I recognise all those topics... Proud of how far I've come as a Physics student...
    And excellent review! Thanks!

  • @jarnoldp
    @jarnoldp Před rokem +12

    I actually took this class with him at UCF. I wish I had him sign it. His lectures were like fine wine. That was a general consensus

    • @GSDKXV
      @GSDKXV Před 6 měsíci +1

      UCF?? Small world

  • @rodneycummings1456
    @rodneycummings1456 Před rokem +23

    I went to the University of Central Florida where Dr. Andrews taught. I never had him as a professor, but I did hear that he was an amazing teacher. I heard that he wanted to make sure his students understood what he was doing on the chalk board. I have a copy of his Partial Differential Equations with Boundary Value Problems book. That book is also well written.

  • @ChuffingNorah
    @ChuffingNorah Před rokem +16

    My first sight of the Higher Transcendental Functions was glimpsed in Part II of the textbook: "A Course of Modern Analysis" by Whittaker & Watson, published by the Cambridge University Press. It's title is somewhat cryptic now considering it was first published way back in 1902; it can appear rather archaic now using "Shew" instead of "Show", but it is a veritable treasure trove of all the advanced functions. I believe it is still in print, on Amazon as a paperback, as it was/is a real Classic! I gather both Profs were contemporaries of the superstar G.H.Hardy, whose own book "A Course of Pure Mathematics" is another abiding classic, still in print.
    As some bore once opined: "Don't read the Books about the Books; instead, read the Books!"

  • @kellygarcia6588
    @kellygarcia6588 Před rokem +3

    Great video! To hold your book open I recommend using a binder clip if you havent tried it!! I use a big binder clip to hold my textbook pages open when I put them on my stand :)

  • @malcolmhays2726
    @malcolmhays2726 Před rokem +1

    I haven't done calculus in decades. I didn't do so well in calculus when I took it in college. Yet I was able to follow along quite easily...Very well explained!

  • @frankharr9466
    @frankharr9466 Před rokem +3

    That is a cool book.
    And yeah, I've heard of those, but that's because I watch some other math channels here, not (strictly) because of my education. Thank you for sharing!

  • @phasma6669
    @phasma6669 Před rokem +30

    I think I still have this textbook !!
    My favorite was the Bessel and Gamma Functions and integrals, and I believe they did some Fourier Analysis in this text [ though I had a separate text just for Fourier ] ....
    Strange...I actually enjoyed those topics 🙂

    • @TheMathSorcerer
      @TheMathSorcerer  Před rokem +2

      ❤️

    • @starguy2718
      @starguy2718 Před rokem

      I am using Bessel functions of the second kind, in a research study that I'm conducting.

  • @onradioactivewaves
    @onradioactivewaves Před rokem

    3 seconds in and I knew this would be one of those "making sense of any and every thing in the book is left as a trivial exercise to the reader"

  • @ashharkausar413
    @ashharkausar413 Před rokem +3

    Great video. Would love to see you do some of the more complicated stuff in that book.

  • @harshaphukan5091
    @harshaphukan5091 Před rokem +1

    Spherical harmonics have a lot of important applications in computational materials science. Thank you for sharing your take on this book!

  • @joshlovesfood
    @joshlovesfood Před rokem +4

    The problem at the end reminds me of a beginner’s Real Analysis problem. I found Real Analysis to be overwhelming and difficult

  • @SandyRiverBlue
    @SandyRiverBlue Před rokem +1

    There is a certain joy in successfully working a problem.

  • @TemplarOnHigh
    @TemplarOnHigh Před rokem +2

    That table of contents takes me back to graduate school. Bessel functions - the horror.

  • @PaulPassarelli
    @PaulPassarelli Před rokem +82

    To condition a high quality bound volume, you need to condition the spine! Stand the book on the spine and open the two covers. Then holding the pages up vertically, begin from the outer pages on both sides and begin paying them flat a few pages at a time. Press the pages down at the binding, and repeat, working a few pages at a time from the outside to the center. Repeat this process until the binding becomes supple. Hopefully you've not broken the spine already.

    • @chaotickreg7024
      @chaotickreg7024 Před rokem +3

      We're lucky we don't need the paper knives anymore

    • @Oceloctopus
      @Oceloctopus Před rokem +45

      Haven't watched the video yet but for a second I thought you were correcting some of the weird math in the book. "ah yes, bound volume, some sort of amplifier function *nods sagely*"

    • @pianoman47
      @pianoman47 Před rokem +2

      A dying art form!

    • @Hazzar595
      @Hazzar595 Před rokem +1

      @@Oceloctopus Lol I thought that too until the second sentence

  • @tc14hd23
    @tc14hd23 Před rokem +5

    "Strange math you've never seen" aka "what I see when I look at the exam"

  • @BArkadeepDas
    @BArkadeepDas Před rokem +6

    Modern Analysis by Whittaker and Watson is also a book which includes several special functions and in general it can be called a legendary book as it way more information than a standard analysis book.

  • @kristianhauservillegas3343

    Physics major here. I enjoyed solving the exercises of Whittaker & Watson's "Course of Modern Analysis" when I was a student. :)

  • @user-xv9fe4eo1b
    @user-xv9fe4eo1b Před rokem +25

    Had old Soviet book written by another author but named exactly like this (though in Russian). Needless to say the content is the same and even the sequence is somehow similar (but hyperheometric function was explained at first place and used further on e.g. in Gamma function explanations). Good old times of studentship...

    • @kdub1242
      @kdub1242 Před rokem +4

      Was it the one by N N Lebedev? The contents looked very similar. I worked through much of it in school and found it very useful.

    • @user-xv9fe4eo1b
      @user-xv9fe4eo1b Před rokem +5

      @@kdub1242 as far as I remember - yes, it was Nikolay Lebedev's book, issue of 1962.

    • @kdub1242
      @kdub1242 Před rokem +3

      @@user-xv9fe4eo1b An American math professor named Richard Silverman translated a whole bunch of great Russian language books into English and that was one of them. Fond memories. I studied physics rather than math, but many of the books were extremely useful for applications.

    • @user-xv9fe4eo1b
      @user-xv9fe4eo1b Před rokem +3

      @@kdub1242 oh wow, never thought they were appreciated as highly! Funny enough, one of my handbooks was written by a guy with a name you'd expect to be Russian or Ukrainian, and it came as a surprise for me that the book was translated from English and was first published in New York. The book is called "Vibration problems in Engineering" and it's main author Stepan Timoshenko (who was actually born near Chernigov and graduated in Saint Petersburg) was also one of the key early contributors to ASME code development.

    • @kdub1242
      @kdub1242 Před rokem +1

      @@user-xv9fe4eo1b Oh yeah, there were a whole bunch of applied mathematics books that became classics in the US. And for undergrad physics, the very famous "Problems in General Physics" by I.E.Irodov has, despite its boring title, entertained and challenged young physics students worldwide for decades. And for grad level physics, I need only mention Lev Landau. When it comes to math and physics (and probably a lot of other subjects too), you just can't beat the Russians and Ukrainians.

  • @mlguy8376
    @mlguy8376 Před rokem +3

    When you do a PhD in theoretical physics and use maple to solve some model equations it usually spits out all those functions at once. ;)

  • @thecrazyukrainian1335
    @thecrazyukrainian1335 Před rokem +3

    Physics major here (Junior currently). I took a Mathematical Physics course and a large section of the class was special functions. It does come up a lot but the sad part is we didn't have a book for the class. Hard to study and practice when there isn't a textbook to skim through.
    I was a sophomore learning this, so it was a shock when you mentioned that high undergrads and/or beginner grads learn this stuff (Save me :( ) Definitely interesting.

  • @LT72884
    @LT72884 Před rokem +2

    I just purchased a "Engineering controls and control systems" from 1957. Im in my controls class now and its weird. Root lucust plots are crazy

  • @DavesMathVideos
    @DavesMathVideos Před rokem +9

    I have this book. Takes me back to my engineering days in the mid 2000's

  • @carlhopkinson
    @carlhopkinson Před rokem +2

    That partial product demo was super-cool !!!!!!

  • @crazyfly5505
    @crazyfly5505 Před rokem +4

    Excellent! This should be a thing for all your book reviews. You should pick an interesting problem from each book and work through it with us!

    • @TheMathSorcerer
      @TheMathSorcerer  Před rokem

      Ok!

    • @TheMathSorcerer
      @TheMathSorcerer  Před rokem

      👍

    • @anandsinghrajput7236
      @anandsinghrajput7236 Před rokem +1

      @@TheMathSorcerer yes please..very nice suggestion....make your minds prepared for future ..will wait for this 🙏

    • @TheMathSorcerer
      @TheMathSorcerer  Před rokem +1

      Yes I really enjoy doing these videos. I feel like people learn something after watching them and it’s worth it👍

  • @mark4asp
    @mark4asp Před rokem +2

    There are two editions to this book:
    1st - 1986, and
    2nd - 1992. The 2nd edition also has a reprint by a different publisher.
    The 1st edition is discussed above.

  • @sam12345768
    @sam12345768 Před rokem

    let ,set,define,consider,compute and finally solutions i have touched learnt all kinds of mathematics from simple to complex from high school tech to physics to ME.i miss that time.

  • @instaremergence
    @instaremergence Před rokem +3

    Love your videos professor 😍
    I joined your channel membership today itself and i got many perks

  • @aravartomian1
    @aravartomian1 Před rokem +2

    Also you can use induction if you prefer.
    Base case: 3/4=1/2(1+1/2).
    Induction: 1/2(1+1/k-1)(1-1/k^2). Which is equal to 1/2(1+1/k) after some algebra.

  • @werhnerwangra
    @werhnerwangra Před rokem

    I feel so much better after watching this video because I struggled like a dog with these problems in my undergraduate studies

  • @bsharpmajorscale
    @bsharpmajorscale Před rokem +1

    I've heard of most of those things, but only because at one point I skimmed a lot of reference books at the library for cool functions to use in Four 4s. I'll have to check if my library has that book!

  • @JxH
    @JxH Před rokem +1

    11:40 "You just have to..." Open MS-Excel, fill in the index column (2, 3, 4...), type in the formula, add another column for the result-so-far, then pull it down the screen (duplicating rows) until it converges, examine it and then state, "Looks like about one-half." Pull it down some more, "Yep, converging to 0.5." Very likely competitive in time to the analytical approach. 🙂

  • @matthewchapman2248
    @matthewchapman2248 Před rokem +2

    I have books like these; gifted to me by dear friend. Now I'm so thankful. For anyone who needs to have comprehensive knowledge and written works for E.E this will help if you're in college or university or even if you're on the job learning

  • @azimuth4850
    @azimuth4850 Před rokem +2

    Enjoying these combo book review and problem solving vids.

  • @sonic5d
    @sonic5d Před rokem +2

    I loved the example! Thank you^^

  • @dominiclipari
    @dominiclipari Před rokem +2

    This video is attracting two groups of people that share only a modest overlap: advanced mathematicians, and people into book binding.

  • @Fazz321
    @Fazz321 Před rokem +32

    Well, it's pretty standard collection for applied mathematicians - we learned all those functions in university. I couldn't comprehend them at the time but I still remember the names.

    • @daviddavid-up1jc
      @daviddavid-up1jc Před rokem

      Вы в советском Союзе как мой отец занимались более продвинутой математикой. Американцы до этого не дотягивается.

    • @daviddavid-up1jc
      @daviddavid-up1jc Před rokem

      Я немножко сожалею потому что сам по математике не понимаю но хочу заниматься Инженером по электричестве. Если у вас есть какая-то рекомендация или совет по книгам пожалуйста дайте знать.

    • @Fazz321
      @Fazz321 Před rokem +4

      ​@@daviddavid-up1jc Да нет, обычный ВУЗ в Сибири. В 2016-ом закончил. Лучшая книга это та, которую вы можете понять.

    • @ahelguerrero
      @ahelguerrero Před rokem +2

      perfect example of the meme: “i know some of these words”

    • @jesusfuckingchrist01
      @jesusfuckingchrist01 Před rokem

      WOW you saw the math from a book called “Functions for… applied mathematicians” when you were studying applied mathematics at university!? Whoever would have guessed? Phenomenal! With top minds like yours, this Ukraine thing should be wrapped up in no time.

  • @87street79
    @87street79 Před rokem

    Hypergeometric functions were the best part of my degree, looking forward to what you do with them.

  • @samdog_1
    @samdog_1 Před rokem +3

    Okay, granted the problem you did was not that difficult, but it still felt great being able to follow along step-by-step. Especially considering I haven’t taken a math class since the late-1970s.

    • @TheMathSorcerer
      @TheMathSorcerer  Před rokem +2

      that's awesome! I picked it so people who had some background might understand, I am glad you could:)

  • @austinbutts3000
    @austinbutts3000 Před rokem +4

    Great video! One thing to note on the practice problem if you the viewer want insight that applies to other problems: one way to do the cancellation is to split the fractions between two partial products, re-index one of the products to start at, say, n=1, and then identifying what cancels when comparing terms with the same index. Visual pattern recognition is great with simple problems, but refining techniques of manipulating partial sums or products to get terms to cancel will eventually take you a lot further.

  • @lorenzobarbano8022
    @lorenzobarbano8022 Před rokem +2

    I have an exam on exacly those things in a couple of weeks😬
    One of the most difficult courses I had up to now, at least for me

  • @matheuseliaspereira9566
    @matheuseliaspereira9566 Před rokem +1

    Some good books on special functions are the ones by Olver (Nist handbook), Butkov (Mathematical Physics), Watson's Treatise on Bessel Functions, Prudnikov (table of functions and integrals) all five volumes, Gradshteyn (table of funtions and integrals)

  • @mencken8
    @mencken8 Před rokem

    This is the favorite book I’ve never owned. There is an empty spot in my bookcase where I sometimes go to appreciate the fact that I do not now and shall never own it.

  • @l.w.paradis2108
    @l.w.paradis2108 Před rokem +2

    Cool little example . . . I love the ones anyone can follow, 30 years after their diff eq class. ;)

    • @l.w.paradis2108
      @l.w.paradis2108 Před rokem

      Also, how surprising that an applied math/engineering math book lacks comprehensive solutions. Wow. :)

  • @jaimeduncan6167
    @jaimeduncan6167 Před rokem

    Excellent video. A detail: Missing is the justification of why you can't say an infinite product converges if it approaches zero.

  • @michaeledwardharris
    @michaeledwardharris Před rokem +1

    I love this problem. Nicely done!

  • @byronrogers4489
    @byronrogers4489 Před rokem +1

    Great content and delivery. I was wondering if you can recommend a book or books that really highlight the amazing things you can don with math. Practical applications. If not, you should write one.

    • @josantonioalcantara
      @josantonioalcantara Před rokem

      Courant & John vol.1&2 is a classic for Calculus. There’s one from Lax that has the same spirit and is recent.
      I would love to recommend you more math books, but the problem is that many interesting things that can be done with math require several undergraduated courses, even those of linear algebra applications or operational research topics. My discrete and geometry math knowledge is very limited, but you can find fun things and even practical applications in those areas that are easy to understand

  • @AlongtheRiverLife
    @AlongtheRiverLife Před rokem +2

    Love all this! Why I am relearning after taking it all 40 years ago!

  • @frankied.2828
    @frankied.2828 Před rokem +1

    Really nice. Thank you for making this video

  • @daniellindner826
    @daniellindner826 Před rokem +2

    Very interesting book!! I’ll be arriving at infinite series soon in my self study of math.

  • @HowardARoark
    @HowardARoark Před rokem

    Thanks for introducing this book, it looks like a good one.

  • @danielgarrison7463
    @danielgarrison7463 Před rokem +2

    I have come across so many of these! Very interesting

  • @nabeelsherazi8860
    @nabeelsherazi8860 Před rokem +3

    Like 80% of this book plus 40% more stuff is covered -- better IMO -- in Arfken and Weber. We used that textbook for my undergrad mathematical methods course and I still use it as a reference.

  • @romancandlefight1144
    @romancandlefight1144 Před rokem +2

    I haven't studied math in over 14 years and was average at best in high school but somehow got the feeling it was converging to 1/2 a few mins before you finished :0

  • @BuckingHorse-Bull
    @BuckingHorse-Bull Před rokem

    yes finally the mathematic formulas I needed to organize my sock drawer

  • @markhugo8270
    @markhugo8270 Před rokem

    Proper way to do this is to do an integral about a pole in the complex mapping of a function. As you circle around and calculate the residuals you will find the convergence and the terms. See Churchhill Complex variables.

  • @johnleclair663
    @johnleclair663 Před rokem +7

    I feel like one final statement is missing after solving the limit. I truly believe my math professor would have taken a point away 24 years ago for not stating something like: “since P = 1/2 and P < infinity AND P != 0, we can say that the infinite product converges to 1/2”

    • @lightyagami1752
      @lightyagami1752 Před rokem +6

      Unless your math professor was also a comp sci professor he should've taken marks away from himself for using P != 0 rather than P ≠ 0.

    • @johnleclair663
      @johnleclair663 Před rokem +4

      @@lightyagami1752 I think even then marks would have been taking off. I was just typing quickly ! But yes, one should not Solve a mathematical problem with a programming language :-)

    • @lawrencedoliveiro9104
      @lawrencedoliveiro9104 Před rokem +1

      We have Unicode now. Why shouldn’t modern programming languages accept “≠” as an operator?

    • @johnleclair663
      @johnleclair663 Před rokem +1

      @@lawrencedoliveiro9104 the C and C++ standards do not define the that symbol as an operator.

    • @lawrencedoliveiro9104
      @lawrencedoliveiro9104 Před rokem

      @@johnleclair663 I did say “modern”, did I not ...

  • @GaryGrumble
    @GaryGrumble Před rokem +7

    If you like this book you would like Courant & Hilbert, Methods of Mathematical Physics. My teacher for an applied math course was a Dr. Brown who was a grad student of Courant who was a grad student of Hilbert. History matters.

    • @devd_rx
      @devd_rx Před rokem +2

      Special people will always tend to special people after all

  • @danh5132
    @danh5132 Před rokem +1

    I wonder if there are tests for convergence of infinite products like there are for series, and what the connection between them is

  • @eric_welch
    @eric_welch Před rokem +2

    Do you know where one could find that exact version?? i love those covers and would love to add this to my collection of books i skim and hope one day to need in my research :p

  • @edysinsimon8646
    @edysinsimon8646 Před rokem

    Back in the day, (statical engineering) several function/ regression modeling was quite the directive in terms of demo of the star-wars tech back in the early 1980s! This saved my bacon more than one time!

  • @BitwiseMobile
    @BitwiseMobile Před rokem +1

    I have plenty of books from the 90s that I kept from school that were well made. Maybe they don't make them well anymore, but I have two Calculus textbooks and one Algorithms in C textbook that have survived the years relatively unscathed (aside from some minor notes and highlights in the text). I even have the book from my first C programming class. It was in softcover and it's still 100% intact. The binding is still solid and there are no loose pages. I guess they just don't make them like they used to.

  • @karol_p
    @karol_p Před rokem +1

    It's a good coincidence CZcams showed me this video. I have a case with Legendre polynominals involved.

  • @jandirpassos5327
    @jandirpassos5327 Před rokem +2

    Nice book not only for engineers but for applied physics as well

  • @jwf3148
    @jwf3148 Před rokem +1

    What a clear, useful and welcoming video....Thank you !!!

  • @Dr.LaserBeam
    @Dr.LaserBeam Před rokem

    Everything pretty standart to be fair. Nice book, should get a copy :D

  • @DilipKumar-ns2kl
    @DilipKumar-ns2kl Před rokem +2

    The book is fantastic and beautifully explained.

  • @miketango1955
    @miketango1955 Před rokem +1

    Until chapter 8 it looked pretty much as the syllabus of my Mathematical Physics course. We had also Fourier series and transforms together with functions of a complex variable. Good reference man!

  • @Sakurao
    @Sakurao Před rokem +1

    That pencil is iconic

  • @DDDhoch2
    @DDDhoch2 Před rokem

    You skipped though the pages and there was a graph.
    My brain instantly: "Oh! The gamma function! Nice!"

  • @IN-pr3lw
    @IN-pr3lw Před rokem +3

    I stopped doing Maths after highschool and I did the foundation paper but I'm almost finished watching this video 😂

  • @shawnscientifica7784
    @shawnscientifica7784 Před rokem +2

    I never realized how much math I know as an engineer until other people start talking about math 😭😭

  • @mitchellschoenbrun
    @mitchellschoenbrun Před rokem

    Well this is a new one on me. He literally starts judging the book by its cover.

  • @markromine5103
    @markromine5103 Před rokem +1

    I've seen it, at 7:30am MWF in the 90s, on the opposite side of campus from all my other classes, my apartment, and any available parking. 🙃

    • @starguy2718
      @starguy2718 Před rokem

      Didn't you just LOVE those classes! Ah, fond memories.

  • @hahe3598
    @hahe3598 Před rokem +3

    Dear Sir
    Thank you for introducing this book. It is so good, I always like book of this kind, strange enough, deep enough, wide enough, yet very readable. I always try to find book of this kind for any other topics in maths.
    Would you also kindly please advise if there is any similar book type for probability and statistics? not necessary for introductory type, it can be very advanced.
    Your kind assistance is highly appreciated. Best Regards.

    • @TheMathSorcerer
      @TheMathSorcerer  Před rokem

      The schaums for probability and statistics are pretty good.

    • @hahe3598
      @hahe3598 Před rokem

      @@TheMathSorcerer Dear Sir, Thank you for the recommendation. I already got it. Schaums books are always the very learner friendly type.
      I always have some
      strange tendency in mind that I forgot probability and statistics is applied mathematics, I habitually tends to find sort of pure maths type of approach on probability and statistics. Maybe I am a bit abstract principle minded instead of down to earth peripheral application minded.
      I like your channel very much, very very rich maths materials. I wish I could know you earlier.
      By the way, I also have a question on topology, I ask you in your topology book recommendation. Thank you.

  • @MrCarburettor
    @MrCarburettor Před rokem +4

    Darn, I wish to be able to watch you when I was in college...

    • @Foosion
      @Foosion Před rokem

      Im just starting college this year, can’t wait

  • @satyavivekanandbattula1091

    Sir Make videos on Geometry . And also give some tips regarding Geometry.

  • @jacobharris5894
    @jacobharris5894 Před 4 měsíci

    I’m self studying Bessel functions right now in my free time so that whenever I encounter them again in physics they don’t feel like their coming out of nowhere and I’m familiar with all their properties. I’ve only made it through the first chapter but so far Introduction to Bessel Functions by Frank Bowman is pretty good. I’m reading it more for the applications but I’ve surprisingly been able to understand all the proofs so far. They probably could be more rigorous but they work for me.

  • @mikej9062
    @mikej9062 Před rokem +2

    I especially enjoyed the page smell review part.

  • @MrKrupp42
    @MrKrupp42 Před rokem

    I'm no good at maths , but I am a bookworm , I love the way you sniff the books , I do love a good sniff of a book, can't beat it.

  • @johnnyreb280
    @johnnyreb280 Před rokem +2

    The books not that old and those formula and equations are still taught in undergrad & grad work .

  • @someoneall
    @someoneall Před rokem +1

    This channel is truly interesting I like it

  • @_..____
    @_..____ Před rokem

    This was fun to watch, thanks

  • @LouisEmery
    @LouisEmery Před rokem

    At 0:18 I was able to tell this book was discarded from a library (sticker on spine). Good find. I do the same. ;)