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[Vector]

So, what can anybody here tell me about the Taniyama-Shimura-conjecture?

edit: ooh, trig.

It's equivalent to Fermat's Last Theorem and has to do with elliptic curves.

Other than that, I know nothing.

you can't figure out the restriction unless you can remove the y variable from the bottom

Yes you can. x <> -y is a restriction.

...

Just find out where the bottom is equal to zero and run with it.

Okay?

[Darvi]

So, what can anybody here tell me about the Taniyama-Shimura-conjecture?

edit: ooh, trig.

It's equivalent to Fermat's Last Theorem and has to do with elliptic curves.

Other than that, I know nothing.

I was hoping for more. Because then I would actually understand my bedtime lecture.

[Tellemurius]

you can't figure out the restriction unless you can remove the y variable from the bottom

Yes you can. x <> -y is a restriction.

not for it to be a function >.>

[Darvi]

Never said it was a function, now did he? Also afaik a function can have more than one variable. I think.

[Vector]

I was hoping for more. Because then I would actually understand my bedtime lecture.

If you are related to Andrew Wiles, then I will cry.



*ahem*

Sweethearts, please look up the definition of the restriction of a function before continuing to make yourselves look silly.  Thanks.

EDIT: Also the definition of a function, and while you're at it you can look up multi-valued functions, too.

[Darvi]

I was hoping for more. Because then I would actually understand my bedtime lecture.

If you are related to Andrew Wiles, then I will cry.

No, but my youngest brother is called Andrew Wilson, does that count?

... maybe when he's older I'll ask him for Russian lessons *g*

[Tellemurius]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Function_(mathematics)#Restrictions_and_extensions
im still right

[Darvi]

Bluh, I suck at the theoretical stuff :<

[Tellemurius]

so like i said, in order for him to find the beginning point of his domain, he needs to remove the y variable from the denominator.

[Darvi]

Blubb.

dom = {(x,y): x<>-y}

So you win about the function part and I win about the domain. Everybody Happi

[Tellemurius]

he has to simplify it though... damnit im a idiot.

[Darvi]

Ya simplifying ain't a problem.

[Tellemurius]

*goes back into corner and works on perfect square equations*

[Darvi]

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l     lImperfect square

Ok, 'nuff shenanigans for now.

[RedWarrior0]

So, I have a history of bad math teachers (I.E., they do a piss-poor job of explaining it) and, being the one in the class who is best or tied for best in the class, it falls on me to explain to people. Which I am terrible at. So, anyone got a good way for explaining how to solve trig equations?

I probably know more about trig equations than you want to know.

What do you want to know?

More of the "showing people how to do it" stuff. Precalc. We have: angle sum/difference, product-to-sum, sum-to-product, double-angle, half-angle, and power reduction, formulas to work with. I just need to learn to teach it in a way people can understand.

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