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“Philosophical” meaning of the Yoneda Lemma

feb 25 at 13:07 Tom Leinster 13.6k14184

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How are multiplicative sequences related to formal power series and genera of manifolds?

jan 31 at 16:53 Al-burcas 10113

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Describing the universal covering map for the twice punctured complex plane

jan 11 at 2:43 Aakumadula 2,8851614

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Cohomology of sheaves in different Grothendieck topologies

sep 26 at 11:01 Thomas Geisser 47145

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Definition and meaning of the conductor of an elliptic curve

jul 14 at 3:00 REINZELLE MARTIN 1

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Interpreting the Garnir relations in terms of the Yang-Baxter equation

jun 3 11 at 17:43 Bruce Westbury 6,75021025

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Famous mathematical quotes [closed]

feb 1 11 at 5:06 J. H. S. 2,4851331

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What is a good example of a complete but not model-complete theory, and why?

nov 1 10 at 2:47 Dave Marker 1,93578

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Explanation for the Thom-Pontryagin construction (and its generalisations)

jul 21 10 at 18:12 Daniel Moskovich 11.5k138108

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Is Li(x) the best possible approximation to the prime-counting function?

jul 4 10 at 18:36 Will Jagy 12.6k12645

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