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One speaker (I believe it was Prof Q. Smith) said number over zero is non-defined and meaningless. But the speaker doesn’t know or must have forgotten complex algebra. In complex algebra, mathematical functions which includes space where the function is infinitely large (because the denominator of the fraction is zero), it’s not really a problem. For those who know complex algebra, you would remember that the integration of a closed ‘loop’ over such a pole (where the function is infinitely large since the denominator is zero) is it’s ‘residue’. For example if the function y(z) = f(z)/(z-K), and thus the pole is at the point K, then the integrating around this pole is f(K), thus this mathematics is widely used in science and engineering. Mathematicians can deal with poles, or impulse easily. In engineering, one can use the impulse function as a sampling of a function so that function f(x) is sampled by multiplying by Dirac delta function d(x-S) and integrating the product, from –infinity to +infinity, the result is f(S). By definition, d(x) is 0 at all x, except when x = 0. At 0, it is +infinite and integrating the d(x) function from –infinity and +infinity is 1.
tchin, Mar 24, 2008
For those who don't want to read about the mathematics I was writing about, just ask a mathematicians about complex algebra and 'poles' where functions have zero in the denominator.
tchin, Mar 24, 2008
About one hour into the program, Quentin Smith mentions about genetic psychology are shown as in Sept. issue of Science magazine on 1997 studying behaviors of twins. I can’t understand what he is saying. He said a set of twins, one pair with atheistic parents and another set with religious parents. But both pair became atheists. Another pair of twins, again one twin with religious parents and another with atheistic parents and they all became religious. Thus their psychology is from the gene of their parents. I don’t think Q. Smith said anything. If I missed what he was saying, someone, please write a review here to let me know what I'm missing.
tchin, Mar 26, 2008
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