Daniel Asimov
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Jan 11 |
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Examples of common false beliefs in mathematics. it's -> its |
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Jan 11 |
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Are there smooth bodies of constant width? I took a look at the Fillmore paper, and just before his Corollary to Theorem 2 -- which reads "Corollary. There exists an analytic hypersurface of constant width in E^n having the same group of symmetries as a regular n-simplex." -- he writes "If we imitate the construction of a Reuleux triangle . . .. Thus:" This seems to imply that he is assuming that [the intersection of four balls in 3-space, centered at the vertices of a regular tetrahedron and each with radius = the side-length of the tetrahedron] is a body of constant width. But this is known to be false. |
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Dec 24 |
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$SU(2)$ and the three sphere It's not so much that you also need det(x) = 1, as that this is exactly the same as saying |a|<sup>2</sup> + |b|<sup>2</sup> = 1. |
