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Deane Yang
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Mathematical "urban legends"

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How useful/pervasive are differential forms in surface theory?

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Is the list of "known" 3D compact manifolds complete?

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Tensor contraction and Covariant Derivative

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Center of mass from the abstract point of view, or could the ancient Greeks invent modern analysis?

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Gauge connections and Lie algebras?

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Changing coordinates so that one Riemannian metric matches another, up to second derivatives

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G-spaces and manifolds

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PDEs as a tool in other domains in mathematics

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Elliptic regularity on compact manifold without boundary

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How should you explain parallel transport to undergraduates?

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Examples of "miraculous" proofs

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PDEs as a tool in other domains in mathematics

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Research statement in PhD applications--how much is too much?

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What is a good way to think about a fundamental field on a principal G-bundle?

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Undergraduate Level Math Books

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Mathematicians whose works were criticized by contemporaries but became widely accepted later

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Understanding Gibbs's inequality

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Construct embedding given metric

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Most intricate and most beautiful structures in mathematics

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Support Function and Mean Curvature

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Why is differentiating mechanics and integration art?

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Why is it important that partial derivatives commute?

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Memorizing theorems

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What is an intuitive view of adjoints? (version 2: functional analysis)

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Are Finsler manifolds semi-Riemannian?

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Technical phd after 33

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How do professional mathematicians learn new things?

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Alternative (easier) Proof of Ambrose Singer Holonomy theorem

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Elementary inequality generalizing convexity of a function on a segment

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