User Steve Flammia - MathOverflow

Steve Flammia

Member for 14 years, 5 months
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University of Sydney

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Proofs without words

answered Dec 14, 2009 at 15:35

28 votes

Famous mathematical quotes

answered Nov 29, 2009 at 20:38

18 votes

What are some deep theorems, and why are they considered deep?

answered Aug 20, 2013 at 0:45

12 votes

Toy Models of Quantum Mechanics

answered Mar 20, 2011 at 16:34

12 votes

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Probabilistic knot theory

answered Oct 30, 2009 at 18:52

9 votes

Tools for Organizing Papers?

answered Oct 28, 2009 at 2:17

7 votes

How hard is it to compute the number of prime factors of a given integer?

answered Dec 29, 2009 at 15:15

6 votes

Discrete logs vs. factoring

answered Nov 3, 2009 at 14:53

6 votes

What's your favorite equation, formula, identity or inequality?

answered Jul 15, 2010 at 15:27

5 votes

When are probability distributions completely determined by their moments?

answered Nov 9, 2009 at 23:49

4 votes

No simple duplication formula for factorials?

answered Nov 4, 2009 at 3:39

4 votes

Quantum Computing Complexity?

answered Oct 30, 2009 at 3:41

4 votes

Bounding a spectral gap: what proof techniques exist?

answered Apr 8, 2010 at 13:56

4 votes

Generalization of scalar product to k-dimensional subspaces (as opposed to 1-dimensional subspaces, i.e. vectors)

answered May 30, 2011 at 13:55

2 votes

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What is the entropy of a density matrix which is the sum of two unitarily equivalent projectors?

answered Jun 17, 2010 at 17:13

2 votes

How to construct matrices with periodicity

answered Dec 22, 2009 at 17:26

2 votes

Are there any interesting examples of random NP-complete problems?

answered Oct 31, 2009 at 14:53

2 votes

How Does Random Noise Typically Look?

answered Nov 15, 2009 at 13:17

1 vote

What are the components of a transpose operator from $\mathbb R^{n\times n}$ to $\mathbb R^{n\times n}$?

answered Nov 4, 2009 at 23:28

1 vote

How is it that you can guess if one of a pair of random numbers is larger with probability > 1/2?

answered Dec 15, 2009 at 22:04

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How much faith should I put in numerics?

answered Nov 30, 2009 at 2:45

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Range of binomial probability, given a certain number of observations?

answered Dec 23, 2009 at 4:32

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Generating a group by randomly sampling generators

answered May 26, 2012 at 5:57

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Eigenvalues of a sum of Hermitian positive definite circulant matrix and a positive diagonal matrix

answered Jun 6, 2012 at 0:28