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I blog at The Endeavour. I also have Twitter accounts with daily facts from algebra, analysis, topology, and probability.

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Canonical examples of algebraic structures

oct 27 11 at 20:29 Julien Puydt 1,092●1●7●16

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Contour integration problem from probability

aug 30 10 at 10:42 Aleksey Pichugin 306●2●7

 
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erfc lower bound

oct 18 10 at 20:02 Blake 1●1

 
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Harmonic mean of random variables

nov 29 09 at 3:54 omer angel 21●1

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Definition of elementary number theory

jan 9 10 at 23:04 Ben Linowitz 2,512●15●28

 
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Examples of random variables

nov 17 09 at 18:27 Mark Meckes 5,972●8●31

 

 
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Hypergeometric sum 3F2 at 1

oct 8 at 1:58 John D. Cook 2,029●16●37

 
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Modified and unmodified Bessel functions of the second kind

sep 26 10 at 3:59 J. M. 2,065●7●20

 

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Famous mathematical quotes (2)
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Books you would like to read (if somebody would just write them…) (3)
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Examples of great mathematical writing
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What programming languages do mathematicians use?
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Why do we care about L^p spaces besides p = 1, p = 2, and p = infinity?
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Fundamental Examples
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Memorizing theorems
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Computer Science for Mathematicians
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Most helpful math resources on the web
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What is the first interesting theorem in (insert subject here)?
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Theorems with unexpected conclusions
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nontrivial theorems with trivial proofs
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Most memorable titles
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What are the most overloaded words in mathematics?
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Favourite scholarly books?
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Best Algebraic Geometry text book? (other than Hartshorne)
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Particular problem solved by solving a more general problem.
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Mathematical “urban legends”
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Mathematicians whose works were criticized by contemporaries but became widely accepted later
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Does your dissertation matter for industry research jobs?
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what can be said about the choice of a prior in Bayesian statistics?
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Why do Groups and Abelian Groups feel so different?
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Intuition for Integral Transforms
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What can’t be described by categories?
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Why do functions in complex analysis behave so well? (as opposed to functions in real analysis)
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Mathematical podcasts/audio (2)
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Advice on doing mathematical research
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Most helpful heuristic?
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How does an academic mathematician educate him/herself about job opportunities outside academia?
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Finding minimal or canonical expressions for Boolean truth tables
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