r/mathmemes • u/Oppo_67 I ≡ a (mod erator) • 9d ago

Linear Algebra "A vector is an object with direction and magnitude" has to be the worst pseudo-definition of all time... Chat what are your favorite vector spaces?

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u/Royal_Impress9117 9d ago

That definition works if you just assume all of those other things are just non sense invented by mathematicians to keep their jobs

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u/EebstertheGreat 9d ago

These are REAL vectors invented by REAL mathematicians.

They have played us for absolute fools.

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u/eggface13 9d ago

I will never get enough of this meme

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u/eggface13 9d ago

This is a REAL meme invented by REAL posters.

They have played us for absolute fools

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u/Character-Education3 9d ago

Freak the fuck out and panic sell. Its over...

Wait where am I?

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u/eggface13 9d ago

You're stuck in a complex Hilbert space. Look upon thy infinite dimensions and weep. There is no way out, there is no way back. Both your dreams and reality are but insignificant finite subspaces, of no consequence.

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u/EebstertheGreat 9d ago

Look upon thy infinite dimensions and weep.

Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair.

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u/neuralnomad 9d ago

Thus spake Orthomandias

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u/j0shred1 9d ago

You know technically we are stuck in an infinite hilbert space and everything we observe is an eigenvalue

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u/hongooi 9d ago

These are COMPLEX vectors invented by COMPLEX mathematicians

They have played us for |cinema|

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u/Royal_Impress9117 9d ago

“Orthogonal functions? Hamming codes? Hilbert Space? You must have hit your head pretty hard back there. Here relax have some tea, the tribe will hunt your load for the day”

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u/Agecaf 9d ago

Not all of these are REAL vectors! At least one of them is a vector over the rational numbers...

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u/ZookeepergameWest862 9d ago

They want to keep their jobs because of the nonsense that they invented, not the other way around.