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History and philosophy of mathematics, biographies of mathematicians, mathematics education, recreational mathematics, communication of mathematics.

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Why "monoidal" transformation?

As I mentioned in the comments, Semple and Roth (Introduction to Algebraic Geometry) discuss this in "Examples on Chapter VIII" example 12 (p.187 of my version). As far as I can tell, this is what the …
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Old books still used

Dickson's "History of the Theory of Numbers" is not only old (1919), but it reviews material which is even older. I found it extremely useful when calculating some family Gromov-Witten invariants in a …
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$\int_x^{hx}(g^*\alpha-\alpha)$ (by Kedra and Gal) http://arxiv.org/abs/1105.0825