I just defended my dissertation. Thank you to Jeff, Jill, and Dinakar for being on my Defense Committee. In this talk, I discuss some of the ideas and follow-ups on my thesis. I’ll also take this moment to include the dedication in my thesis.
Here are the slides from my defense.
After the defense, I gave Jeff and Jill a poster of our family tree. I made this using data from Math Genealogy, which has so much data.
October 19, 2021 at 7:14 pm on An Intuitive Overview of Taylor SeriesHi Bob! The behavior of $c$ is actually quite subtle. It's not true that $c$ is actually a constant. For "nice" functions, what is true is that the mean value $c$ varies continuously over intervals (except at finitely many points). Combined with a form of Darboux's theorem (stating that every function that is the derivative of another function has the ---
October 18, 2021 at 6:09 pm on An Intuitive Overview of Taylor SeriesIt's been a while since there was a comment here, but I'll give it a try in the hope for a response. Your proof gives me a sense of validation in my own work, although I still have questions. I wrote a very similar idea here: https://math.stackexchange.com/q/4277898/225136 . As you can see from a comment that someone left, the proof ---
April 14, 2021 at 3:24 am on Long live opalstack!Thabk you! I was looking for an opinion of a long-term user of Opalstack so your answer was exactly what I needed. April 13, 2021 at 9:32 pm on Long live opalstack!Hi Yavor, I'm very happy with Opalstack. After the initial transition, there have been almost no problems. I'll note that for a few months, opalstack's email setup was rocky, but they figured that out. I'd recommend it. They've been pretty responsive to problems, too. You can see what's troubling people now on their community/support forum: https://community.opalstack.com/. I know a somewhat --- April 13, 2021 at 6:12 pm on Long live opalstack!Hello David, Would you please be so kind to tell us (me) of your (further) experience with Opalstack so far? I myself had to migrate away from WebFaction and I am wondering if now migrating some of my sites to Opalstack is a good idea. Best regards :) 
March 18, 2021 at 5:09 pm on A response to FtYoU’s question on RedditGod bless you David. Great explanation! February 25, 2021 at 6:24 pm on phase_mag_plot: a sage package for plotting complex functionsI'm glad to hear it! I would also read issues or pull requests on github. I think it would not be particularly hard to incorporate this into official sage. I have a local build of sage that includes a variant of phase_mag_plot as the default complex_plot. There are a few additional usability things I need to do before submitting this ---
February 25, 2021 at 5:07 pm on phase_mag_plot: a sage package for plotting complex functionsI took the liberty to download your SageMath module and changed a few options. Since I was not completely clear on the interaction between lightness and color (defined by the argument of the function to be displayed) I decided to weigh these differently. Color, from the colorwheel by 0.8 and lightness by 0.2. I computed the color first and weighed ---
December 23, 2020 at 4:07 pm on Trigonometric and related substitutions in integralsFor Euler substitutions, do you mind explaining the reasoning for the t term in x*sqrt(a) + t. Is there anywhere else I can read up on this? Thanks for this post! August 7, 2020 at 4:15 pm on AboutThat's great! If there are particular plots that you're interested in, let me know. But I (very recently) posted a library for making the plots https://davidlowryduda.com/phase_mag_plot-a-sage-package-for-plotting-complex-functions/ Alternately, I make sage/python notebooks available for many of my visualizations. These are usually linked to within the post. If you see something that you want to replicate and find the code, leave a ---
That’s an amazing family tree! How did you make it?
Thanks John! The data is from Math Genealogy (which is amazing). I scraped this data with python and created a (data structure) graph. I added and edited some data by hand, such as creating the pairings between the married couples. Then I converted this graph into the DOT language specification, and used graphviz to create the graph itself. Finally I used $\LaTeX$ to create the labels and combined them together into one pdf. Each individual step is quite easy, even if en masse they seem quite hard.