21 Nov
2012
21 Nov
'12
10:22 p.m.
On 11/21/2012 5:46 PM, Veit Elser wrote:
On Nov 21, 2012, at 12:33 AM, Bill Gosper<billgosper@gmail.com> wrote:
A challenge to Veits' Mechanics geeks might be to fudge the museum cycloid to make a true tautochrone curve for a sphere of specific mass and diameter. Would the the mass actually matter? It'll have to wait till next semester -- right now I'm teaching statistical mechanics.
Homework: Find the probability a random NxN complex Hermitian matrix has only positive eigenvalues.
2^(-N). Brent