Peter Michor

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Just a simple mathematician

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What is torsion in differential geometry intuitively?

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dec 16 at 6:48 Peter Michor 5,422●10●17

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A soft introduction to physics for mathematicians who don’t know the first thing about physics

mp.mathematical-physics physics

dec 12 at 14:17 nabil 81●5

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Parallelizability of the Milnor’s exotic spheres in dimension 7

differential-topology dg.differential-geometry smooth-manifolds vector-bundles smoothness

mar 4 at 21:14 Johannes Ebert 11.4k●33●55

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Pseudonyms of famous mathematicians

big-list

jan 2 at 18:56 Rodrigo A. Pérez 1,622●8●21

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Counterexamples in PDE

big-list ap.analysis-of-pdes counterexamples

jan 8 at 1:42 soulphysics 328●1●8

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“Philosophical” meaning of the Yoneda Lemma

ct.category-theory intuition

feb 25 at 13:07 Tom Leinster 13.5k●1●40●82

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Riemannian surfaces with an explicit distance function?

dg.differential-geometry mg.metric-geometry examples riemannian-geometry

mar 7 at 20:19 jbc 1,343●2●4

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Mathematical explanation of the failure to quantize gravity naively

mp.mathematical-physics physics quantum-field-theory

feb 27 11 at 20:12 Kelly Davis 1,093●1●7●16

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Moving one family of commuting self-adjoint operators to another without losing commutativity on the way

fa.functional-analysis oa.operator-algebras missing-lemma

jan 25 at 11:22 MathOverflow♦ 1●2●3

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Great mathematical figures and/or diagrams?

writing soft-question

dec 15 at 0:27 François G. Dorais♦ 22.4k●2●48●113

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Example of a manifold which is not a homogeneous space of any Lie group

dg.differential-geometry lie-groups counterexamples

feb 25 12 at 23:01 MTS 5,306●1●9●27

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Fiction books about mathematicians? [closed]

ho.history-overview big-list soft-question books

feb 19 at 13:38 Torsten Schoeneberg 424●3●7

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Why are parabolic subgroups called “parabolic subgroups”?

ho.history-overview rt.representation-theory gr.group-theory terminology

may 17 10 at 11:44 Benoît Kloeckner 5,489●18●29

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Motivation for and history of pseudo-differential operators

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apr 9 at 20:58 Marcelo 15●3

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How should one understand orbifold fundamental groups?

orbifolds fundamental-group homotopy-theory groupoids

apr 3 at 10:55 Omar Antolín-Camarena 1,487●7●15