Tuesday, April 19, 2005

An Interesting method

Found a very interesting,and amazingly simple way to solve an equation involving complex powers.Say we have a equation x^3-x^2+x=z^2+2z;we separate this into two equations,say y= x^3=x^2+x,and y=z^2+2z.Plot the graphs of both against y,and the points of intersection are the solutions to the equation.Complex problems truly have simple solutions.The source for this solution was the book "The shadows of the Mind",by Roger Penrose.Quite a good read actually, considering that the author has gone great lengths to show where quantum physics fails to explain the workings of a conscious mind,and how we must develop a new physics to accomodate the concept of a non-mathematical consciousness.

6 comments:

Ganesh Hegde said...

dude,what seems amazing to one person,seems trivial to others.keep it in mind.
"not all people think alike.if it was so ,the wrold would have been an extremely boring place to live in".--art buchwald.

FifthBeatle said...

solving cubic equations?? boy! u sure haven't understood the true motives behind a blog have you??

Ganesh Hegde said...

dude arnold,
thats the beauty of having a blog.whether you like it or not,i get to post all the stuff i want ;)

Ganesh Hegde said...

dude,thats the beauty,would anyone bother to go and check whether art buchwald actually said such a thing or not??make some crap statement and say that so and so famous dude said it.people tend to shut their mouths after that(the power of fame??).
but then,mavericks dont necessarily confirm to other peoples standards,do they??

Siddharth said...

U said equations with complex powers; but u gave the example of two equations with very real powers. did u mean to say complex as in difficult to handle ? u got the wording majorly wrong there dude :-)

Seemantini said...

got drawn to quauntum physics, not by its comlpexities (it is complex to me cos m not a physics etudiant), but by its philosophy.

thanx to quantum physicist-ravi gomatam of bhaktivedanta institute www.bvinst.edu