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recently i've posted (what i've been calling)rambles on foundational topics like<A HREF="http://vlorblog.wordpress.com/2009/11/09/notes-for-chapter-zero-modified-by-hand-with-considerable-grumbling-from-the-tex-code-but-we-wont-be-doing-this-again-soon/">plugging without even chugging</A>,<A HREF="http://vlorblog.wordpress.com/2009/11/14/in-medias-rays/">how to writecross-products</A>,and <A HREF="http://vlorblog.wordpress.com/2009/11/13/testing-testing/">symboliclogic via ordered pairs</A>.sketches of lectures never to be givenas i now choose to think of 'em...not that there's anything wrong with"rambles". i'll probably go right on*calling* 'em that. just please don'tthink my actual *lectures* have everbeen so rambly. necessarily.okay. what's on my mind today.about sets and algebra natch.big picture. how big.my life story. too big.publishing and algebra.and me. just right.here goes. publishing first.annus mirabilis:1968(actually 68-69; one thinksin academic years since beforethe beginning.)cops and kids fighting in the streetsand martin and bobby and all that, sure.but for my purposes:my beloved 6th-grade.both my main teachers i loved.pretty doggone undyingly as it turns outthough of mister ratts i think but seldom.mary ann di baggio taught us mathand taught us well. *i* got a modelof "math teaching done right".also, though this had little to dowith miss di baggio directly...her role was to provide access to equipmentand a receptive environment for us toshare our results in (no small thingand indeed a very big thing and ifthere were a heck of lot more of thisinstead of a heck of lot less we wouldn'tnow be in a position of having to makethe events of 68 look like a party...but i digress)... zines.i did my first self-publishingin di baggio's class (with<AHREF="http://staff.missouriwestern.edu:80/users/mcgarrel/travel/zinespot.htm">andrew mcgarrell</A>,<A HREF="http://peterstrickholm.com/bio.php">peter strickholm</A>, andtom hoffa (who appears
not to have a webpage):twenty copies or so (at a guess)of each of about four issues of GlOAT(the <A HREF="http://lowercasel.blogspot.com/">lowercase L</A>is not a misprint). purple "spiritmaster" one-side-to-a pagers. (dittos!)i soon went on to do(in "printings" of one;i circulated these kid-by-kidmyself at school after drawing'em at home) the _ten_page_news_.i <A HREF="http://zinewiki.com/Ten_Page_News">revived the title</A> years later,beginning just before the zine boom(before hypertext... so called e-zines[and blogs and such]... captured thoseeasily lured by the easier softer wayof the dark side [including me alas]).anyhow you get the idea: self-publishinggoes way back for me. i soon began doinga zine *about* zines: <AHREF="http://zinewiki.com/Indy_Unleashed">_indy_unleashed_</A>.in <A HREF="http://npagenews.blogspot.com/2009/08/on-having-no-life-1998.html">thisTPN piece</A> from 1998, i claimedthat "the ten page news is mostof my social life"... showing thatmy interest in self-publishingalso goes way <I>deep</I>.hypertext was a natural for me;indeed mike cagle had given mea copy of ted nelson's(seminal, self-published)<A HREF="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_Lib">_dream_machines_</A>almost twenty years before the webbroke big (with graphical browsers).i've recently rambled on this partof my publishing autobiography already(in my <A HREF="http://vlorblog.wordpress.com/about/">"about" page</A>; notnecessarily a good place for it).so. turning to algebra.i majored in algebra in the sensethat i wrote <A HREF="http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/895117480-24522281/content~db=all~content=a780122011">my doctoral dissertation</A> on it.so i trainedas a professor. and was one briefly.and felt (and still feel) that it waswork i was "born to do". but i soonlost my professional rank and title.after a year of death throes in the formof never-even-an-interview applicationsall over the country i quit trying andworked freelance from then—1996—till the day before yesterday. spring quarter.as a teacher and tutor. and... ta-dah!<I>published</I> _vlorbik_on_math_ed_until the efforts to write up <I>algebra</I>in blog format finally <A HREF="http://vlorbik.wordpress.com/2009/02/24/i-quit-a-clarification/">snapped
my patience</A> (and i quitblogging for five hot minutes).part of the point of the turn-of-century_ten_page_news_ was to have some extra-academicuse for the typesetting system...$latex \TeX$...i'd learned for writing up my thesisand gone on to write exams and quizzes in.as well as a set of lecture notes.source files now lost. also for thatmatter part of the point of _VME_ itselfwas *also* to work with TeX.it was harder than i thought it would be.anyhow now i'm at it again.wordpress i've only learned to dolittle things on. and those badly.but i've got a copy of the real nowon Legion (and it isn't even bootlegged!).leslie lamport claims that thingshave stabilized recently qnd i'minclined to trust him even thoughhe evidently <A HREF="http://www.lamport.org/">works for microsloth</A>.so far so good. i'm producingpretty pages with unfamiliar ease.can't yet put 'em online for all to see just now.which is sort of strange. looks like googlehad a page you could do it with easily.for about a day. but this is conjecture.by the time i got there they quittaking on new users. some experimental deal.all for this morning. what's to eat?a couple days ago i discussed a<A HREF="http://vlorblog.wordpress.com/2009/11/15/use-the-source-luke/">technique</A> forlisting all the permutations of a (small)set. essentially this: count the elements.suppose there are n of 'em.there are n! (en-<A HREF="http://vlorblog.wordpress.com/2009/11/16/never-get-outta-the-boat/">factorial</A>) permutations.our first letter... whatever it is...will be the first letter *of*the *same* number of permutationsas will the second letteror *any* letter. so we can saythat each letter begins (1/n)th(one-enth) of the list.note that (1/n)*n! = (n-1)!and write out this many copiesof each letter in columns.end of step one.for {E,G,B,D,F}... the examplei "assigned"... my first inclinationis to remark that{E,G,B,D,F} = {B,D,E,F,G}(sets do *not* depend on order)
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this is some random blog entry uploaded as an experiment. i think.
stunning.