80

Answers
votes newest views recent
8
What are some examples of colorful language in serious mathematics papers?
15
Suggestions for good notation
4
What is the first interesting theorem in (insert subject here)?
47
Why do so many textbooks have so much technical detail and so little enlightenment?
4
why study Lie algebras?
5
What are examples of mathematical concepts named after the wrong people? (Stigler’s law)
16
What is the high-concept explanation on why real numbers are useful in number theory?
2
Extreme point compact convex set.
1
How is the physical meaning of an irreducible representation justified?
18
tr(ab) = tr(ba)?
34
“The complex version of Nash’s theorem is not true”
16
Down-To-Earth Uses of de Rham Cohomology to Convince a Wide Audience of its Usefulness
9
connected compact semisimple lie group finite fundamental group
10
What is significant about the half-sum of positive roots?
17
Lie group examples
8
Iwasawa Decomposition & Polar Decomposition related how ?
5
Why is the integral of the second chern class an integer?
13
Is arbitrary union of closed balls in R^{N} Lebesgue measurable?
4
Permutation representation inner product
4
Which groups have only real and quaternionic irreducible representations?
10
Combinatorial equation
6
determinant of the table of characters
6
Locally compact abelian groups
11
Infinite-dimensional normed division algebras
14
Generalization of Borsuk-Ulam
1
Sets with equal positive measure in every interval
6
What is an example of a ring in which the intersection of all maximal two-sided ideals is not equal to the Jacobson radical?
8
Three-dimensional simple Lie algebras over the rationals
7
Longest element of a Weyl group
3
weyl group representations
1 2 3 next