This is a correction of a faulty previous file: The cube root of minus 16

1. ATTENTION: I HAVE JUST COME TO
REALIZE THAT MY SOLUTION TO THIS
PROBLEM IS COMPLETELY INCORECT,
RLS 2-14-14. I APPOLOGIZE TO THE 128 OF
YOU WHO HAVE VIEWED IT SINCE I POSTED IT
TWO MONTHS AGO. Please read Slide 2: “Help”
The Cube Root of Minus Sixteen
A vector representation as an
element of the Measurement Problem

2. “HELP” I ask your help in correcting my
errors in the representation of a vectoral
depiction to the answer to this problem.
Surely there must be something of value in
the rectification of this misguided effort.
This slide set had an innocent but mischievous
beginning. I had asked the question at dinner one day
last fall. My son and his friend were talking endlessly
and so as a whim to change the scope of the conversation. I asked them if they knew the cube root of minus
sixteen. That is where my first error happened: not
realizing that two was the fourth root. Well, anyhow
they understood. They realized that their juxtaposition
of nouns from ancient cultures kind of left me
speechless.

3. Concerning the turning of a scalar into a vector

4. Desai, M. (1994), THE MEASUREMENT PROBLEM IN
ECONOMICS. Scottish Journal of Political Economy,
41: 34–42. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-9485.1994.tb01108.x
Here Desai addresses the conversion of a vector to a scalar.
RLS 12-5-13

5. VOID
Let x = - 16
Find Z = x^ (1/3)
Za = 0 + 2 i^ (1/2)
Zb = 0 – 2 i^ (1/2)

6. VOID

7. Si Puo! May I, Dear Viewer, introduce myself; I
am the amateur Mathematician who made these
slides. I am speaking for the Engineer that
posted them, for now he sees an error in my
ways and so does he rebuke me: No! No. (he
says) The author has sought instead to depict a
glimpse of life. He believes utmost that the
artist is a man and that he must write for men
and be inspired by the truth. And you, who look
to learn, consider our soul, since we are men of
flesh and bone, and from this orphan world we
breathe the same air as you! I’ve told you the
concept... Now watch as it is carried out. Let’s
go. Begin!
RLS 2-13-14