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#1 2011-10-30 03:08:39
- anonimnystefy
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Orbifolds!!!
hi guys
i have recently found out about a book called "Geometry and the Imagination".There's a lot of cool stuff in there,but i am having trouble understanding the section about orbifolds,finding quotient orbifolds,and naming orbifolds.
can anybody help?
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#2 2011-10-30 04:15:12
- bobbym
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Re: Orbifolds!!!
How about explaining what you do understand because few people might have that book. Or provide a link.
In mathematics, you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
If it ain't broke, fix it until it is.
Always satisfy the Prime Directive of getting the right answer above all else.
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#3 2011-10-30 04:24:03
- anonimnystefy
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Re: Orbifolds!!!
Here lies the reader who will never open this book. He is forever dead.
Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most. ― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment
The knowledge of some things as a function of age is a delta function.
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#4 2011-10-30 06:46:45
- anonimnystefy
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Re: Orbifolds!!!
please... :'(
Here lies the reader who will never open this book. He is forever dead.
Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most. ― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment
The knowledge of some things as a function of age is a delta function.
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#5 2011-10-30 06:50:00
- bobbym
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Re: Orbifolds!!!
Hi anonimnystefy;
I would if I could. I am not understanding any of it. Sorry.
In mathematics, you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
If it ain't broke, fix it until it is.
Always satisfy the Prime Directive of getting the right answer above all else.
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#6 2011-10-30 07:01:10
- anonimnystefy
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Re: Orbifolds!!!
hi
ok.but now you will have to excuse me while i go to my room and cry...
Here lies the reader who will never open this book. He is forever dead.
Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most. ― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment
The knowledge of some things as a function of age is a delta function.
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#7 2011-10-30 07:02:54
- bobbym
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Re: Orbifolds!!!
Go right ahead. Many people have cried over how dumb I am, mostly me.
In mathematics, you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
If it ain't broke, fix it until it is.
Always satisfy the Prime Directive of getting the right answer above all else.
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#8 2011-10-30 07:06:32
- anonimnystefy
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Re: Orbifolds!!!
i'm not crying because you're dumb,i'm crying because i'm dumb,and no one can help me. 
Here lies the reader who will never open this book. He is forever dead.
Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most. ― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment
The knowledge of some things as a function of age is a delta function.
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#9 2011-10-30 07:15:32
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Re: Orbifolds!!!
Well, here is where I can help.
There was a guy who was starving. I mean he had not eaten for weeks. He stumbled upon a buffet of food from another country. Yecch, I will not eat their food, too spicy! He keeled over dead. The moral: Sometimes eat what is available and not what you want. Or, when in Rome do as the Romans do!
In mathematics, you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
If it ain't broke, fix it until it is.
Always satisfy the Prime Directive of getting the right answer above all else.
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#10 2011-10-30 07:55:18
- anonimnystefy
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Re: Orbifolds!!!
that's different.the guy needed the food to live so if he wanted to live,he wouldn't have i choice.i have a choice because my life doesn't depend on it.
and i cannot see how the second moral relates.
Here lies the reader who will never open this book. He is forever dead.
Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most. ― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment
The knowledge of some things as a function of age is a delta function.
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#11 2011-10-30 07:57:57
- bobbym
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Re: Orbifolds!!!
There is lots of other math to do here and elsewhere that you can get help on. Unfortunately John Horton Conway is at Princeton boning up on his latin.
In mathematics, you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
If it ain't broke, fix it until it is.
Always satisfy the Prime Directive of getting the right answer above all else.
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