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Which journals publish expository work?
I wonder if anyone else has noticed that the market for expository papers in mathematics is very narrow (more so than it used to be, perhaps).
Are there any journals which publi …
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2answers
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Expository treatment of Schubert Cells Paper
I was wondering about the paper by Bernstein, Gel'fand, and Gel'fand on Schubert Cells. This paper is fairly old(and often cited) so I figured someone must have represented this ma …
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Is it best to run or walk in the rain? [closed]
According to the Norwegian meterological institute, the answer is that it is best to run. According to Mythbusters (quoted in the comments to that article), the answer is that it …
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3answers
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Introductory text for the non-arithmetic moduli of elliptic curves
I'm looking for an introduction to the non-arithmetic aspects of the moduli of elliptic curves. I'd particularly like one that discusses the $H^1$ local system on the moduli space …
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Source needed (at final-year undergrad level) for the double cover of SO(3) by SU(2)
This is a bit of an ill-defined question, and I feel I should have been able to resolve it by combining Google with a few library trips, but I'm having difficulty narrowing down th …
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Use of the word “data” not in the statistical sense [closed]
Occasionally I see the use of the word "data" in definitions. For instance, one definition of an exact sequence starts off by saying, "An exact sequence of abelian groups (or modul …
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Short Introduction to Planar Algebras
Are there any good short expositions of planar algebras out there? I am interested primarily in seeing the main definition and some explicit examples.
