A Tricky Radical Equation to Find ALL Solutions from Harvard University

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  • Опубликовано: 24 ноя 2024

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  • @هشامكبيسة-ي2ح
    @هشامكبيسة-ي2ح 25 дней назад +2

    I really appreciate the fact of using trigonometric functions in solving an algebraic problem

    • @drpkmath12345
      @drpkmath12345  25 дней назад +1

      Thank you so much my friend for your support👍👍👍

  • @mathnerd5647
    @mathnerd5647 Месяц назад +4

    Very nice video. I love math youtubers like you showing their faces and working on a problem nicely on the board

    • @drpkmath12345
      @drpkmath12345  Месяц назад

      Haha thanks a lot my friend for your support👍👍👍

  • @Min-cv7nt
    @Min-cv7nt Месяц назад +3

    This is so nice. I really like your trig sub method

    • @drpkmath12345
      @drpkmath12345  Месяц назад

      Thanks a lot my friend haha👍👍👍

  • @LITHICKROSHANMS-gw2lx
    @LITHICKROSHANMS-gw2lx Месяц назад +4

    x=2 is a solution

    • @domedebali632
      @domedebali632 Месяц назад +4

      And we have two more solutions, and I believe that is the most tricky part on this problem bro

    • @LITHICKROSHANMS-gw2lx
      @LITHICKROSHANMS-gw2lx Месяц назад +2

      @@domedebali632
      Yes brother
      In this equation
      It has two real solution and one complex solution
      However i provide in exact form
      x=2[Real solution]
      x=-(1/2)-((√5)/2))[Real solution]
      x=-(1/3)-(((∛49)(-2(ω)))/(∛((36)+i(108√3))))+(ω/3)(∛((7/2)+i((21√3)/(2))))[complex solution]

    • @LITHICKROSHANMS-gw2lx
      @LITHICKROSHANMS-gw2lx Месяц назад

      @@domedebali632
      Yes brother
      In this equations
      It has
      Real solution-2
      Complex solution-1
      Here i proceed right now
      x=2[Real solution]
      x=-(1/2)-(√5/2)[Real solution]
      x=-(1/3)-(∛(392)ω)/(∛(1323+i(√(47258883)))+((∛((7+i(√1323))/(54)))ω)[complex solution]

    • @LITHICKROSHANMS-gw2lx
      @LITHICKROSHANMS-gw2lx Месяц назад +2

      @@domedebali632
      @
      Yes brother
      In this equations
      It has
      Real solution-2
      Complex solution-1
      Here i proceed right now
      x=2[Real solution]
      x=-(1/2)-(√5/2)[Real solution]
      x=-(1/3)-(∛(392)ω)/(∛(1323+i(√(47258883)))+((∛((7+i(√1323))/(54)))ω)[complex solution]

  • @MrGLA-zs8xt
    @MrGLA-zs8xt Месяц назад +1

    Another great video professor

    • @drpkmath12345
      @drpkmath12345  Месяц назад

      Thank you so much my friend👍👍👍

  • @iqtrainer
    @iqtrainer Месяц назад +1

    This is so clever method prof🎉

    • @drpkmath12345
      @drpkmath12345  Месяц назад

      Thank you my friend for your support👍👍👍

  • @domedebali632
    @domedebali632 Месяц назад +1

    You are the best

  • @padraiggluck2980
    @padraiggluck2980 Месяц назад +1

    The only solution is x = 2. Plug the other values into a calculator to see that they do not solve the equation.

  • @mrpringles4479
    @mrpringles4479 Месяц назад +1

    Miklos shweitzers please

    • @drpkmath12345
      @drpkmath12345  Месяц назад

      Yes for sure! Let me look into it haha👍👍👍

  • @BobChess
    @BobChess Месяц назад +1

    How cosin involved in answering the questions. I'm cooked

  • @jjeastside
    @jjeastside Месяц назад +1

    dr pk math pls help me go from the continued fraction of the cube root of 2 back to the cube root of 2 using algebra I am need help

    • @Min-cv7nt
      @Min-cv7nt Месяц назад

      I am no dr pk but I did that problem a few months ago. I used infinite radical problems and got hints from there

    • @jjeastside
      @jjeastside Месяц назад

      @@Min-cv7nt did you solve it? I have a couple ideas but I dont like how it works

    • @Min-cv7nt
      @Min-cv7nt Месяц назад

      @@jjeastside Yes, I did. My solution was similar with infinite nested radicals

    • @jjeastside
      @jjeastside Месяц назад

      @@Min-cv7nt so if I gave you an infinite list of continued numbers could you tell me what cubic root it is?

    • @jjeastside
      @jjeastside Месяц назад

      @@Min-cv7nt I see it now instead of a single radical expanding its infinite radicals expanding in the form of
      x = 1 + 1/(x^2 +x + 1)

  • @kirtimaykhurasiya9595
    @kirtimaykhurasiya9595 Месяц назад +4

    Am I literally first ?

    • @MrGLA-zs8xt
      @MrGLA-zs8xt Месяц назад +1

      you beat me to it bro

    • @drpkmath12345
      @drpkmath12345  Месяц назад

      Haha thanks for your support my friend👍👍👍

  • @NadiehFan
    @NadiehFan 20 дней назад +1

    You already did this problem in May 2024, but for reasons unknown to me you have deleted your previous video. Having watched both your video and that of Prime Newtons from May 2024 on solving the equation
    (1) x³ − 3x = √(x + 2)
    I would like to make some additional observations because there is a lot more to say about this equation that neither you nor Prime Newtons discussed. Squaring both sides we obtain
    (2) x⁶ − 6x⁴ + 9x² − x − 2 = 0
    This is a 6th degree equation which of course also has the roots of
    (3) x³ − 3x = −√(x + 2)
    since this gives (2) as well when both sides are squared. For anyone who is familiar with Chebyshev polynomials it is quite clear what we have here. If we substitute x = 2t in (2) we obtain
    (4) 64t⁶ − 96t⁴ + 36t² − 2t − 2 = 0
    which can be written as
    (5) 32t⁶ − 48t⁴ + 18t² − 1 = t
    where the left hand side is a Chebyshev polynomial of the first kind. In fact the left hand side of (5) is T₆(t) and the right hand side is T₁(t) so we can rewrite (5) as
    (6) T₆(t) = T₁(t)
    Chebyshev polynomials of the first kind can be defined by the recurrence
    (7) T₀(x) = 1, T₁(x) = x, Tₙ₊₁(x) = 2x·Tₙ(x) − Tₙ₋₁(x)
    which means that they satisfy
    (8) Tₙ(cos θ) = cos nθ
    Therefore, if we substitute t = cos α in (5) or x = 2t = 2·cos α in (2) these equations reduce to
    (9) cos 6α = cos α
    and this trigonometric equation is easily solved. We have
    6α = α + 2kπ ⋁ 6α = −α + 2kπ, k ∈ ℤ
    5α = 2kπ ⋁ 7α = 2kπ, k ∈ ℤ
    α = ²⁄₅·kπ ⋁ α = ²⁄₇·kπ, k ∈ ℤ
    so for (2) we have the roots
    x₁ = 2·cos 0, x₂ = 2·cos(²⁄₅·π), x₃ = 2·cos(⁴⁄₅·π),
    x₄ = 2·cos(²⁄₇·π), x₅ = 2·cos(⁴⁄₇·π), x₆ = 2·cos(⁶⁄₇·π)
    Here x₁ = 2·cos 0 = 2 so the left hand side of (2) has a factor x − 2 and x₂ = 2·cos(²⁄₅·π) = −¹⁄₂ + ¹⁄₂√5, x₃ = 2·cos(⁴⁄₅·π) = −¹⁄₂ − ¹⁄₂√5 are the zeros of the quadratic polynomial x² + x − 1 which therefore also is a factor of the left hand side of (2).
    The remaining roots x₄ = 2·cos(²⁄₇·π), x₅ = 2·cos(⁴⁄₇·π), x₆ = 2·cos(⁶⁄₇·π) are the roots of the cubic equation
    (10) x³ + x² − 2x − 1 = 0
    To prove this, we can substitute x = u + 1/u in (10) which results in
    (11) u⁶ + u⁵ + u⁴ + u³ + u² + u + 1 = 0
    Since the left hand side of (11) is a geometric series with sum (u⁷ − 1)/(u − 1) we can also write this as
    (12) (u⁷ − 1)/(u − 1) = 0
    Clearly, the roots of (12) and therefore of (11) are the seventh roots of unity except for u = 1 itself, so we have u = exp(k·²⁄₇·π·i), k = 1..6 and since x = u + 1/u this means that the roots of (10) are x = exp(k·²⁄₇·π·i) + exp(−k·²⁄₇·π·i) = 2·cos(k·²⁄₇·π), k = 1..6. Of course, for k = 4..6 we get the same values as for k = 1..3 so we indeed have the three roots x₄ = 2·cos(²⁄₇·π), x₅ = 2·cos(⁴⁄₇·π), x₆ = 2·cos(⁶⁄₇·π) for (10) and the left hand side of (10) is therefore also a factor of the left hand side of (2).
    WolframAlpha is incapable of coming up with the solutions x₄ = 2·cos(²⁄₇·π), x₅ = 2·cos(⁴⁄₇·π), x₆ = 2·cos(⁶⁄₇·π) for (10) and instead produces expressions for the solutions of (10) that contain cube roots of complex numbers even though all solutions of (10) are real. This is because the solutions of a cubic equation that has three distinct real but irrational roots cannot be expressed algebraically in radicals without using complex numbers.
    This is known as the _casus irreducibilis_ but there is a standard method to solve cubic equations with three distinct real but irrational roots trigonometrically, without using complex numbers. However, the intriguing thing here is that the expressions x₄ = 2·cos(²⁄₇·π), x₅ = 2·cos(⁴⁄₇·π), x₆ = 2·cos(⁶⁄₇·π) for the roots of (10) cannot be obtained either by using the standard trigonometric method to solve a cubic equation with three real roots.
    Substituting x = (z − 1)/3 in (10) results in
    (13) z³ − 21z − 7 = 0
    and solving this depressed cubic trigonometrially in the conventional way we can express the roots of this equation as
    z₁ = 2√7·cos(¹⁄₃·arccos(¹⁄₁₄√7))
    z₂ = 2√7·cos(¹⁄₃·arccos(¹⁄₁₄√7) − ²⁄₃·π)
    z₃ = 2√7·cos(¹⁄₃·arccos(¹⁄₁₄√7) + ²⁄₃·π)
    So, since x = (z − 1)/3, we can express the roots of (10) as
    x₄ = −¹⁄₃ + ²⁄₃√7·cos(¹⁄₃·arccos(¹⁄₁₄√7))
    x₅ = −¹⁄₃ + ²⁄₃√7·cos(¹⁄₃·arccos(¹⁄₁₄√7) − ²⁄₃·π)
    x₆ = −¹⁄₃ + ²⁄₃√7·cos(¹⁄₃·arccos(¹⁄₁₄√7) + ²⁄₃·π)
    but it is not evident at all how these expressions can be reduced to the much simpler expressions
    x₄ = 2·cos(²⁄₇·π)
    x₅ = 2·cos(⁴⁄₇·π)
    x₆ = 2·cos(⁶⁄₇·π)
    Since we have proved that x − 2, x² + x − 1 and x³ + x² − 2x − 1 are all factors of the left hand side of (2) and since there are no other factors since any root of (2) is a zero of one of these factors it follows that we can write (2) as
    (14) (x − 2)(x² + x − 1)(x³ + x² − 2x − 1) = 0
    Since the set of roots of (2) consist of the union of the set of roots of (1) and the set of roots of (3) we still need to find out which roots of (2) are roots of (1) and which roots of (2) are roots of (3). To do this, we can apply the double angle identity for the cosine to (9) which gives
    (15) 2·cos² 3α − 1 = 2·cos² ½α − 1
    so we have cos² 3α = cos² ½α and therefore (9) is equivalent with
    (16) cos 3α = cos ½α ⋁ cos 3α = −cos ½α
    where the first equation is also obtained by substituting x = 2·cos α in (1) and the second by substituting this in (3) subject to the condition 0 ≤ α ≤ π to ensure the proper sign of √(x + 2) = cos ½α.
    Solving cos 3α = cos ½α gives α = ⁴⁄₅·kπ ⋁ α = ⁴⁄₇·kπ, k ∈ ℤ so taking the condition 0 ≤ α ≤ π into account we have the roots x₁ = 2·cos 0 = 2, x₃ = 2·cos(⁴⁄₅·π) = −¹⁄₂ − ¹⁄₂√5, x₅ = 2·cos(⁴⁄₇·π) for (1).
    Similarly, solving cos 3α = −cos ½α gives α = ²⁄₇·(2k + 1)π ⋁ α = ²⁄₅·(2k − 1)π, k ∈ ℤ and taking the condition 0 ≤ α ≤ π into account this gives the roots x₂ = 2·cos(²⁄₅·π) = −¹⁄₂ + ¹⁄₂√5, x₄ = 2·cos(²⁄₇·π), x₆ = 2·cos(⁶⁄₇·π) for (3).

    • @drpkmath12345
      @drpkmath12345  20 дней назад

      Thanks a lot my friend for sharing this solution👍👍👍

  • @nternalPractice
    @nternalPractice Месяц назад

    wtf?