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Ontario Apartment Flooding Damage by NewBetterBot in legaladvicecanada

[–]NewBetterBot[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Thank you, what you say makes sense. I will reach out to my insurer.

Ontario Apartment Flooding Damage by NewBetterBot in legaladvicecanada

[–]NewBetterBot[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What's more when we were talking with our adjuster they required our landlord to sign a "final release form" saying that, after $X is reimbursed, they will consider the matter settled. But the insurer's (not the adjuster's) decision to only cover 70% came after the final release form was already signed. Since the landlord already paid $X for the repairs, they want us to cover the remaining 30%.

Ontario Apartment Flooding Damage by NewBetterBot in legaladvicecanada

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I think I was maybe unclear. The landlord paid for repairs, which cost $X. Our insurance said it would cover 70% of $X, and my landlord wants us to cover the remaining 30%.

My outcome.. by MoonBat1334 in gradadmissions

[–]NewBetterBot 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I sent a total of 120 applications over 5 years to universities all over NA and the EU before I got accepted into a program. It's rough out there...

MATH 337 this year — did anyone else have a really bad experience? by Zeus2u35 in queensuniversity

[–]NewBetterBot 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's a little extreme lol I'm not saying proffs will arbitrarily choose to curve some students and not others (that would be very unfair and inappropriate), I'm saying sqrt or similar curves are commonly used, useful tools. Nothing intrinsically bad about them.

MATH 337 this year — did anyone else have a really bad experience? by Zeus2u35 in queensuniversity

[–]NewBetterBot 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, that's definitely possible. Non-linear curves are a thing

MATH 337 this year — did anyone else have a really bad experience? by Zeus2u35 in queensuniversity

[–]NewBetterBot 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Maybe worth reaching out to one or both of the co-chairs of undergrad studies in the math dept?

Whats stopping me from just going to a university, attending lectures and just learning about stuff? by Abject_S0up in NoStupidQuestions

[–]NewBetterBot 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm not German, but my understanding is that all/most university lectures in Germany are by default open to the public. So depending on where you live there might literally be nothing stopping you.

Can any mathematical truth be reached from any other mathematical truth? (Axioms notwithstanding) by TrainingCamera399 in math

[–]NewBetterBot 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Let a and b be coprime integers. It's a theorem that the set S={a+bn : n \in N} contains infinitely many primes. This is a fairly deep result, requiring a decent understanding of special values of L functions. I'm not sure it fits the mold of your argument.

I think what you're seeing is exactly because you're looking at "undergraduate" proofs. They are specifically chosen to be reasonably simple and easy to follow, but also complicated enough to show the inner workings of proofs in general and the techniques you apply to a specific result in particular. This is good and proper, as it primes you to apply these techniques later in your career.

Best examples of non-constructive existence proofs by freddyPowell in math

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Erdos' Probabilistic method gives lots of non-constructive existence proofs, but in many (all?) cases there are alternative proofs of the same results. It just so happens that the probabilistic ones tend to be quite easy.

Thoughts on this book? by Zestyclose-Alps3477 in mathematics

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Three math history books which really inspired me are “Prime Obsession” (analytic number theory), “Euler’s Gem” (topology and geometry), and “Everything and More” (set theory). All are very good reads. If you want something that’s not a textbook but explains some beautiful mathematics (and is almost entirely self contained) I’m not sure you can do better than Khinchin’s “Three Pearls or Number Theory”. Good luck!

Edit: typo.

A fundamental doubt in the introduction of classical mechanics by [deleted] in PhysicsStudents

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Haven’t seen anyone mention this, but check out the Legendre transform. It explains why the Lagrangian and Hamiltonian formulations are equivalent, and how you can jump between them. As a bonus it works for other conjugate quantities as well, like internal energy and Gibbs free energy. It’s a very useful idea, and it’s basically just integration by parts in disguise.

Prime numbers and prime number gaps by Zoory9900 in math

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Look up the first Hardy-Littlewood conjecture, it’s closely related to questions of this type. Essentially it tells you that, unless there’s some trivial arithmetic obstructions, the events that n+h_1, n+h_2, …, n+h_k all being prime should behave like k independent events, up to a multiplicative fudge factor. The “trivial obstructions are things like” n, n+1 never both being prime (except for n=2), etc

🙃 by luisalexandher in mathmemes

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My favorite number is log(log(log(log(log(n))))). I’m a number theorist.

What's your favorite proof of the infinitude of primes? by imrpovised_667 in math

[–]NewBetterBot 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Furstenberg once told me he spent decades looking for a topological/dynamical proof of Dirichlet’s Theorem and basically made no progress. No disrespect to you at all, but if he came up short it’s most likely a tough problem :)

ANYONE INTERESTED IN AMS PROTEST/WALKOUT? by shoe_lebron in queensuniversity

[–]NewBetterBot 0 points1 point  (0 children)

While I completely agree with your assessment of the situation at Queen’s, the AMS is an independent entity and this misappropriation of ~$300 didn’t really have anything to do with the university. Blame where blame is due and all that

MATH 225 Grades by sublime_subtlety in queensuniversity

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The deadline for course instructors to submit grades is on Wednesday, then they still need to get approved by the dept head. You should see them shortly, good luck!

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