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128 votes

Is there an introduction to probability theory from a structuralist/categorical perspective?

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What is a good method to find random points on the n-sphere when n is large?

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How to generate random points in $\ell_p$ balls?

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Cool problems to impress students with group theory

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What's an example of a space that needs the Hahn-Banach Theorem?

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Do plane projections determine a convex polytope?

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Capitalization of theorem names

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A good book of functional analysis

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Why do we care about $L^p$ spaces besides $p = 1$, $p = 2$, and $p = \infty$?

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Which journals publish expository work?

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Stronger version of the isoperimetric inequality

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What to do with antique math books?

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A geometric interpretation of independence?

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Is there a central limit theorem for bounded non identically distributed random variables?

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Which journals publish 1-page papers

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Fourier transform of $\exp(-\|x\|_p)$: more general question

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Concentration of measure for arbitrary convex bodies?

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Almost-converses to the AM-GM inequality

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Hölder's inequality for matrices

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Circumference of Convex Shapes

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Löwner-John Ellipsoid: incribed and circumscribed

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Sampling uniformly from a sphere

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What out-of-print books would you like to see re-printed?

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Statistics for Haar measure of random matrices?

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Time-inhomogeneous Markov chains

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Derandomizing random matrices

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concentration inequality for averages of dependent random variables

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What is an isomorphism of Banach spaces?

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Why is this generality in Vitali's Lemma useful?

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