Timeline for Examples where it's useful to know that a mathematical object belongs to some family of objects
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| Sep 1, 2011 at 5:11 | comment | added | Qiaochu Yuan | Or lots of parameters! Consider, for example, a special case vs. the general case of the Vandermonde determinant. | |
| Sep 1, 2011 at 1:43 | comment | added | Steven Landsburg | Actually, this is more "computational" and less "structural" than what I was envisioning, but it's convinced me that my vision was too narrow. Thanks. | |
| Sep 1, 2011 at 1:32 | history | answered | Timothy Chow | CC BY-SA 3.0 |