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Do you know important theorems that remain unknown?
Do you know of any very important theorems that remain unknown? I mean results that could easily make into textbooks or research monographs, but almost
nobody knows about them. If you provide an ...
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The concept of duality
I have been thinking for sometime about asking this question, but because I did not want to have two "big-list" questions open at the same time, I did not ask this one. Now its time has come....
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Autobiographies of mathematicians
According to Wikipedia, an autobiography is an account of the life of a person, written by that person sometimes with a collaborator.
An autobiography offers the author the ability to recreate history....
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Essays and thoughts on mathematics
Many distinguished mathematicians, at some point of their career,
collected their thoughts on mathematics (its aesthetic, purposes,
methods, etc.) and on the work of a mathematician in written ...
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Well known theorems that have not been proved
I believe that there are numerous challenging theorems in mathematics for which only a sketch of a proof exists. To meet the standards of rigor, a complete proof of these theorems has yet to be ...
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Atlas-like websites on specific areas of mathematics
In this post, we look for the existing atlas-like websites providing well-presented classifications or database about some specific areas of mathematics. Here are some examples:
GroupNames: https://...
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"Must read" papers in numerical analysis
In 1993, Prof. L.N. Trefethen published a NA-net posting with a list of thirteen paper he used for teaching the seminar Classic Papers in Numerical Analysis.
In Trefethen's words, ... this course ...
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Learning through guided discovery
I have been working through Kenneth P. Bogart's "Combinatorics Through Guided Discovery". You can download it from this page: http://www.math.dartmouth.edu/news-resources/electronic/kpbogart/
I've ...
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Which great mathematicians had great political commitments? [closed]
Some mathematicians claim that their field has nothing to do with political concerns; others are deeply involved in political life.
Are there many great mathematicians with great political commitments?...