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SU-MATH109 SEP272023

Last edited: August 8, 2025

Key Sequence

New Definitions

Results and Their Proofs

Questions for Jana

  • Why does something being prime require that \(p>1\). that is, why is \(1\) not defined as prime?

Interesting Factoids

SU-MATH109 SEP272023

Last edited: August 8, 2025

\begin{equation} \mathbb{N} = \{0, 1,2,3 \dots \} \end{equation}

the set of natural numbers. start from 0.

\begin{equation} \mathbb{Z} = \{\dots, -2, -1, 0,1,2, \dots \} \end{equation}

the set of integers. natural language and their negatives

Key Sequence

New Definitions

Results and Their Proofs

SU-MATH109 SEP292023

Last edited: August 8, 2025

Key Sequence

New Definitions

Results and Their Proofs

Questions for Jana

  • why is it that adding all the digits work for \(\ \text{mod}\ 9\). I still don’t get it.
  • in re Chinese Remainder Theorem: is there any case in which \(a\ \text{mod}\ b\) is not unique?

Interesting Factoids

SU-MATH53 FEB022024

Last edited: August 8, 2025

2nd order linear inhomogeneous: non-homogeneous linear differential equation

SU-MATH53 FEB052024

Last edited: August 8, 2025

Sensitivity to Initial Conditions + Parameters.

ODE Existence and Uniqueness

We can recast all high order systems into a first-order vector-valued system. So, for any system:

\begin{equation} x’ = g(t,x, a) \end{equation}

if \(g\) is differentiable across \(t,x\) and \(a\), the IVP given by \(x’ = g(t,x,a)\) and \(x(0) = x_0\), has the property has that:

  1. the ODE has a solution \(x(t_0) = x_0\) for any \(t_0\), and any two solutions on the interval coincide as the same solution
  2. The only way for a solution to fail to extend temporally is due to the bounds’ \(||x(t)||\) becomes unbounded as \(t\) approaches the endpoints
  3. On any interval \(t_0 \leq t \leq T\) the solution \(y_{a,y_0}\) depends continuously on \(a, y_0\), “if I look at my solution sometime later, it would be a non-discontinuous change on the choice of initial condition”

Example

Let’s consider: