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Where does a math person go to learn quantum mechanics?

mar 23 at 15:20 Dylan Wilson 3,916●2●14●36

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What are your favorite instructional counterexamples?

apr 12 at 13:54 GArunkumar 41●5

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Extremely messy proofs

mar 23 at 22:16 Santi Spadaro 666●4●6

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How do I make the conceptual transition from multivariable calculus to differential forms?

mar 23 at 6:56 chairman mao 1

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What is the first interesting theorem in (insert subject here)? [closed]

mar 1 12 at 15:56 Arkapravo 1

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What are good non-English languages for mathematicians to know?

jun 8 at 22:48 PaPiro 1,346●1●9●26

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What are examples of mathematical concepts named after the wrong people? (Stigler’s law) [closed]

jul 9 11 at 2:21 Adam Azzam 99●6

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What do heat kernels have to do with the Riemann-Roch theorem and the Gauss-Bonnet theorem?

mar 23 at 7:02 chairman mao 1

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What are the most overloaded words in mathematics? [closed]

jun 21 10 at 5:12 Jesse Madnick 299●1●6●14

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Why is it a good idea to study a ring by studying its modules?

mar 29 11 at 2:40 Joël Cohen 86●1●5

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