Decrypt this maths love story? (1 Viewer)

InteGrand · Dec 1, 2015

leehuan said:

Others will know more, but this is roughly what I get.

$\noindent (1) There was a man (say Bob) ($\exists$ means ``there exists'').$

$\noindent (2) He worked hard (in Physics, $ \bold{F} \cdot \bold{d}$ is the work done by a force $\bold{F}$ displacing a particle by $\bold{d}$ ).$

$\noindent (3) This caused his cash to increase $\Big{(} \frac{\mathrm{d}\$}{\mathrm{d}t}$ is the rate of change of his cash $\Big{)}$.$

$\noindent (4) However, he felt worthless, like his (absolute) value was nothing (0).$

$\noindent (5) Then Bob met a girl called Alice (the sec thing doesn't really mean anything unless it was a reference to $\sec C$?).$

$\noindent (6) The two became very close - Bob was in the ball of radius $\delta$ centred at Alice (in Topology, $\{ \bold{x}:\left| \bold{x} -\bold{a} \right|<\delta \}$ is called the Ball of radius $\delta$ centred at $\bold{a}$ and is basically the set of points within $\delta$ of the point $\bold{a}$, and $\delta$ is typically small, so it is like the set of ``nearby'' points to $\bold{a}$).$

I'll let someone else continue.

Carrotsticks · Dec 1, 2015

leehuan said:

Once upon a time, there was a man named "Dot Product". We will suppose that his initials are F.D, because it is far more preferable than D.P for reasons

(edit: Found the smiley I wanted)

The dollar was increasing at that time but he was still worthless. He met a sexy girl and he was always inside her. They were very independent of each other (so they probably were friends with benefits) and just to emphasise again, he was always inside her.

One day, they had an argument. He was pointing fingers at her and she was pointing fingers at him. She accused him of always copying her, because all of his traits were the same as hers. His jimmies were clearly rustled and he had enough. He jumped up onto the (rather oddly shaped) roof and they started arguing. "You're such a complex woman!", "I'm the only one being realistic here you're just in some imaginary world!", were a few comments thrown at her by him.

However, after they all vented their frustrations, they felt close together and unified once again. He looked at her crotch and she looked at his. You can probably imagine what happened next. She found out in two months time that there would be a "little her". However, it turns out that she was pregnant with twins!

As a couple, at face value, they seemed completely normal. However upon closer observation, you'll notice that they are rather random; always doing things unexpectedly.

They were happy, and together they were always one.

leehuan · Dec 1, 2015

Carrotsticks said:
Once upon a time, there was a man named "Dot Product". We will suppose that his initials are F.D, because it is far more preferable than D.P for reasons (edit: Found the smiley I wanted)

The dollar was increasing at that time but he was still worthless. He met a sexy girl and he was always inside her. They were very independent of each other (so they probably were friends with benefits) and just to emphasise again, he was always inside her.

One day, they had an argument. He was pointing fingers at her and she was pointing fingers at him. She accused him of always copying her, because all of his traits were the same as hers. His jimmies were clearly rustled and he had enough. He jumped up onto the (rather oddly shaped) roof and they started arguing. "You're such a complex woman!", "I'm the only one being realistic here you're just in some imaginary world!", were a few comments thrown at her by him.

However, after they all vented their frustrations, they felt close together and unified once again. He looked at her crotch and she looked at his. You can probably imagine what happened next. She found out in two months time that there would be a "little her". However, it turns out that she was pregnant with twins!

As a couple, at face value, they seemed completely normal. However upon closer observation, you'll notice that they are rather random; always doing things unexpectedly.

They were happy, and together they were always one.

I don't think that was the intended storyline but, hey, gave me one good laugh.

Shadowdude · Dec 1, 2015

15. And then we put the girl through a rescaling matrix???

what even

leehuan · Dec 1, 2015

Lol someone gave a ~93% complete solution on Facebook.

Edit: Wait, it wasn't you that posted it was it SD

InteGrand · Dec 2, 2015

$This is the rest of my interpretation (explanations of the maths at the bottom). Starting off from Picture number (7) (not sure what (8) means really; not sure about (11) either).$

$At the present their lives were independent (7) of each other, but they knew they could not remain like this. Bob approached Alice. Alice approached Bob (9). The found they completed each other as together they covered all possible traits in the world (10) where just one of them did not. They knew love was complex (12), but they also knew that marriage was the only way forward, and they completed their union (13) later that month. They realised their crossing (14) of paths really was a fine transformation (15) for both of their lives.$

$It was in the $k^{\text{th}}$ moment (17) of their lives that they stumbled across the joyous realisation that they were going to have twins (16). As they reflected on their time together at the end of the day, they observed that together, they were truly one. (18)$

$\underline{Explanations}$

$\noindent (7) In probability, two events $A$ and $B$ are said to be \textsl{statistically independent} if $\mathbb{P}\left(A \cap B\right)=\mathbb{P} \left(A\right) \mathbb{P}\left(B\right)$.$

$\noindent (8) Not sure.$

$\noindent (9) In calculus, $a\to b$ is often read as ``$a$ approaches $b$''.$

$\noindent (10) This is a Venn diagram showing that pair's traits bipartition the set $\mathcal{U}$ of all possible traits. In other words, $A\cap B = \empty$ and $A \cup B = \mathcal{U}$, where $A$ is the set of all traits possessed by Alice and $B$ is that for Bob.$

$\noindent (11) Not sure. Possibly something to do with torque in physics, which could have a pun with ``talk'' though. But if this is the case, the see-saw is vertical, which is odd.$

$\noindent (12) Number like $x+iy$ where $i=\sqrt{-1}$ are called \textsl{complex numbers}.$

$\noindent (13) Reference to ``union'', which is what the symbol $\cup$ means in set theory.$

$\noindent (14) Reference to the ``cross product'' (so ``cross''), an operation from linear algebra.$

$\noindent (15) This transformation where everything seems to have been uniformly shrunk is a type of \textsl{affine transformation} in geometry, which is a transformation of the form $\bold{x} \mapsto \bold{b}+\bold{L} \left(\bold{x}\right)$, where $\bold{L}$ is something called a linear map and $\bold{b}$ is a fixed vector. So pun with ``affine transformation'' and ``a fine transformation''.$

$\noindent (16) No real mathematical content here that I can see.$

$\noindent (17) In statistics, the quantity $\mathbb{E}\left[ \left(X-\mu \right)^k \right]$ is known as the $k^{\textsl{th}}$ \textsl{moment about the mean} for a random variable $X$.$

$\noindent (18) The remainder in the long division is $1$, and the pair is placed there, so the couple together are one.$

leehuan · Dec 2, 2015

16 looks like a representation of a factor tree?

Shadowdude · Dec 2, 2015

leehuan said:
Lol someone gave a ~93% complete solution on Facebook.

Edit: Wait, it wasn't you that posted it was it SD

huh what

15 I'm guessing is something to do with binary search trees and the two leaves being children of a parent node, which makes more sense than anything graph theory

or maybe it's like a Hasse diagram

leehuan · Dec 2, 2015

Might not have been, idk I just saw appear in the UNSW MathSoc

InteGrand · Dec 2, 2015

Oh yeah, (15) could be Hasse diagram or tree.

Shadowdude · Dec 2, 2015

leehuan said:
Might not have been, idk I just saw appear in the UNSW MathSoc

KingOfActing · Dec 2, 2015

I saw the 'solution' (decryption?) of this online here if anyone wants to take a look at that

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