Timeline for Another chicken or egg: sequence or series
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| Dec 8, 2023 at 1:13 | comment | added | LSpice | @WillieWong, re, oh, I see! I was focussed on the answer, and missed the comment. | |
| Dec 7, 2023 at 23:07 | comment | added | Willie Wong | @LSpice: Steven's wish (about advanced texts), but he is the post author so always gets notified. You were pinged also because of unordered infinite sums. | |
| Dec 7, 2023 at 16:14 | comment | added | LSpice | @WillieWong, re, which witch wished which wicked wish? That is to say, whose wish? | |
| Dec 7, 2023 at 3:01 | comment | added | Willie Wong | Your wish (wasn't) my command. And yes, unordered infinite sums are dealt with too. @LSpice | |
| Nov 11, 2021 at 2:21 | comment | added | LSpice | Another example: the unordered sum $\sum_{x \in S} f(x)$ as a limit over the net of finite subsets $\lim_{F \subseteq S} \sum_{x \in F} f(x)$. | |
| Jul 17, 2017 at 18:43 | comment | added | Todd Trimble | Steven -- oh of course. But if one should be teaching topology, it's a good example to keep in mind! | |
| Jul 17, 2017 at 18:35 | comment | added | Steven Gubkin | @ToddTrimble Me either! Although that is a bit more structure than the typical calculus class probably wants to dive into. I am surprised that I have not seen this definition as part of more advanced texts though. | |
| Jul 17, 2017 at 11:53 | comment | added | Todd Trimble | I don't think it's occurred to me before now that actually the Riemann integral is more naturally viewed as a limit of a net than as a limit of a sequence. | |
| Aug 27, 2012 at 13:00 | history | made wiki | Post Made Community Wiki by Steven Gubkin | ||
| Aug 27, 2012 at 9:28 | comment | added | Wadim Zudilin | +1 for your CW comment: I really forgot about this natural option. | |
| Aug 26, 2012 at 15:33 | history | answered | Steven Gubkin | CC BY-SA 3.0 |