255

Answers

votes newest views recent

11

Mathematical “urban legends”

105

Google question: In a country in which people only want boys

19

Fundamental Examples (4)

47

Which mathematicians have influenced you the most?

23

What are your favorite instructional counterexamples?

51

Which popular games are the most mathematical? (3)

2

Taking lecture notes in lectures

7

Undergraduate math research

5

Sum of ‘the first k’ binomial coefficients for fixed n (2)

4

An example of a beautiful proof that would be accessible at the high school level?

21

What would you want to see at the Museum of Mathematics? (3)

13

Most intricate and most beautiful structures in mathematics

26

Theorems with unexpected conclusions (2)

2

Most harmful heuristic?

0

Reference letters for graduate school after a couple years in the industry

11

Experimental Mathematics

13

Math paper authors' order

21

Cocktail party math

9

Divide a square into 5 equal squares

18

Fiction books about mathematicians? (2)

22

Examples of theorems misapplied to non-mathematical contexts

8

Linear Algebra Proofs in Combinatorics?

14

Applications of Brouwer’s fixed point theorem

0

Lorentzian vs Gaussian Fitting Functions

2

Probability of one binomial variable being greater than another.

12

What to look for in applicants to graduate programs (in mathematics)?

4

Modern Mathematical Achievements Accessible to Undergraduates

2

The Symmetry of a Soccer Ball

14

Why are the sporadic simple groups HUGE?

4

How can I tell if y is a function of x in a random sample?