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

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History of bump functions

When were the standard bump function examples such as $e^{-1/(1-x^2)}$ first understood, and what was the context or motivation at the time? As an upper bound I would guess that they must have been un …
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History of Laplacian comparison theorem

The Laplacian comparison theorem says that if a $n$-dimensional Riemannian manifold has nonnegative Ricci curvature, then the distance function to any point satisfies $\Delta d\leq\frac{n-1}{d}$. Ther …
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Shing-Tung Yau's doubts about Perelman's proof

The question is, unavoidably, somewhat ambiguous. Here are seven points, hopefully rather objective: There are well-known expositions of Perelman's work by Cao & Zhu, Kleiner & Lott, and Morgan & Tia …