Almost completely off topic.

Carlos Moreno <moreno_at_mochima_dot_com@mailinator.com> writes:

> Randy Yates wrote:
>> Richard Owlett <rowlett@atlascomm.net> writes:
>>
>>>Jerry Avins wrote:
>>>
>>>>Randy Yates wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>Jerry Avins <jya@ieee.org> writes:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>>[...]
>>>>>
>>>>>Is there something analogous for Jordan Normal Form?
>>>>
>>>>Is that Michael Jordan? His normal form is unlikely to be duplicated
>>>>for a long time.
>>>>
>>>
>>>As on occasion people are serious on this forum, I Googled ;)
>>>
>>> From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
>>>
>>>"In linear algebra, the Jordan normal form, also called the Jordan
>>>canonical form, named in honor of the 19th and early 20th century
>>>French mathematician Camille Jordan, answers the question, for a given
>>>square matrix M over a field K containing the eigenvalues of M, to
>>>what extent can M be simplified into a standard shape by changing
>>>basis."
>> Yes, that's the one. I'm taking a graduate math class in Linear
>> Algebra class this semester
>> and the professor spent weeks covering the simple stuff and then blew
>> through JNF in about three days. Meanwhile, about 30 hours of study
>> later, I'm almost getting it (thanks to Carl Meyer's book).
>
> Ok, but then it makes me wonder if my humor-impairment is reaching a
> high-peak today and yesterday...  I assumed that there was a humorous
> implication in bringing this JNF in response to Jerry's post... ???
> I figured it must have been because I was not familiar with the Jordan
> stuff what you were referring to (which I wasn't), but now that you
> uncovered it, I still don't see a humorous connotation, or even a
> slight link/association with Jerry's post....
>
> Help me out?

Hi Carlos,

It's just a veiled way to bitch about having to study so hard,
that's all. Probably not funny at all. They both have to do
with education, so there is at least the weakest of links.

Jerry, I neglected to say to you thanks for making me smile.

Now back to finding basis vectors for my chaining subspaces...

-RY

PS: Eric and Bob, thanks for the support. I'm not sure I deserve
it in this case. 
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Randy Yates wrote:

>>>Yes, that's the one. I'm taking a graduate math class in Linear
>>>Algebra class this semester
>>>and the professor spent weeks covering the simple stuff and then blew
>>>through JNF in about three days. Meanwhile, about 30 hours of study
>>>later, I'm almost getting it (thanks to Carl Meyer's book).
>>
>>Ok, but then it makes me wonder if my humor-impairment is reaching a
>>high-peak today and yesterday...  I assumed that there was a humorous
>>implication in bringing this JNF in response to Jerry's post... ???
>>I figured it must have been because I was not familiar with the Jordan
>>stuff what you were referring to (which I wasn't), but now that you
>>uncovered it, I still don't see a humorous connotation, or even a
>>slight link/association with Jerry's post....
>>
>>Help me out?
> 
> Hi Carlos,
> 
> It's just a veiled way to bitch about having to study so hard,
> that's all. Probably not funny at all. They both have to do
> with education, so there is at least the weakest of links.

That's fair...  I figured that might be the case, but somehow
something was telling me that there could be something more that
I was missing  (we all have our "humor impaired days" every now
and then  :-))

Cheers,

Carlos
--

Hello Jerry,

>         H took out a long-handled squeegee, dipped it into
>         the nearest toilet bowl, and scrubbed at the mirror.
> 
>         Since then, there have been no lip prints.
> 

Supposedly that also works for frequent visitors who always manage to 
show up just before dinner time. The saga goes that after the 
involuntary hosts let the dog lick the plates clean and put them right 
back into the cupboard these visitors never came back.

Regards, Joerg

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