Yeah, I noticed that after I posted. I was thinking of closed form.
If I had gone a little step further and observed that the power sums were actually combinations of the power sums for exponential expressions, then I could have written the functions as those. But I didn't, and you know what they say about hindsight!
Just today, though, my advisor warned me about the risk of never doing research because of thinking you need to learn more in order to do it...
I've never encountered that particular problem. One does research to find something new (or at least new to oneself), after all. But if you learn new things during those periods, at least there's that.
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Date: 2012-02-22 01:38 pm (UTC)If I had gone a little step further and observed that the power sums were actually combinations of the power sums for exponential expressions, then I could have written the functions as those. But I didn't, and you know what they say about hindsight!
Just today, though, my advisor warned me about the risk of never doing research because of thinking you need to learn more in order to do it...
I've never encountered that particular problem. One does research to find something new (or at least new to oneself), after all. But if you learn new things during those periods, at least there's that.