Thanks, Russell. Is your comment differ with Ken's or is it Ken's in another language.
For a former english major, the LANGUAGE is everything. Nick Nicholas S. Thompson Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Ethology, Clark University ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > [Original Message] > From: Russell Standish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <[email protected]> > Date: 8/15/2008 10:09:06 PM > Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Rosen, functional entailments > > Your question on what F(f,g) is: I think it is ordinary function > composition, usually denoted fog (where the o is actually a small > circle, not the letter "o"). ie > > (fog)(x) = f(g(x)). > > I'm not entirely sure why the use of "inner" and "outer" entailment > refers to this, though. Inner and outer normally refer to products. > but I don't see an obvious generalisation from the product concepts to > > If we specialise functional notation to linear algebra with linear functions > f: R^n -> R and g: R -> R^n > > then > f(x) is an inner product when f is represented by a row vector > > and > > gof is an outer product when f is as above and g is a column vector > > Perhaps that's the generalisation being talked about. > > On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 12:02:43AM -0600, Nicholas Thompson wrote: > > Roseneers, > > > > If anybody is still willing to help out in understanding chapter five, of LIFE ITSELF I have posted a queston at http://www.sfcomplex.org/mw/index.php?title=Talk:RosenNoodles#More_struggles _with_chapter_five > > > > Let me know, if you cant get in. > > > > One of you wrote me a kindly note asking after my mental health , given my obsessive pursuit of this quest. It's ok. I guess. Like all obsessives, I don't see that I have much choice: I cannot see how one could possibly understand a text so complex WITHOUT engaging in the sort of obsessive collaborative head-bashing that goes on in graduate seminars. And I cant see how I could have the gall to have opinions on Rosen, or on category theory, unless I understood the text. And I dont see any seminars on Rosen within easy reach. So..... onward! > > > > Thanks for the help given so far. > > > > Nick > > > > > > Nicholas S. Thompson > > Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Ethology, > > Clark University ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > > ============================================================ > > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > > lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org > > -- > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > A/Prof Russell Standish Phone 0425 253119 (mobile) > Mathematics > UNSW SYDNEY 2052 [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Australia http://www.hpcoders.com.au > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
