Search Results
Search type | Search syntax |
---|---|
Tags | [tag] |
Exact | "words here" |
Author |
user:1234 user:me (yours) |
Score |
score:3 (3+) score:0 (none) |
Answers |
answers:3 (3+) answers:0 (none) isaccepted:yes hasaccepted:no inquestion:1234 |
Views | views:250 |
Code | code:"if (foo != bar)" |
Sections |
title:apples body:"apples oranges" |
URL | url:"*.example.com" |
Saves | in:saves |
Status |
closed:yes duplicate:no migrated:no wiki:no |
Types |
is:question is:answer |
Exclude |
-[tag] -apples |
For more details on advanced search visit our help page |
Questions designed to generate a "big list" of certain results, examples, conjectures, etc. via many individual answers, each contributing one or a few instances. Such a question should typically be in Community Wiki mode (CW); after asking, please, flag for moderators attention requesting the question to be made CW.
8
votes
Undergraduate Level Math Books
For discrete mathematics, I would recommend Van Lint-Wilson's "A Course in Combinatorics" as a good introductory text. It consists of 38 (in my edition) chapters that give (often largely self-contain …
65
votes
Tweetable Mathematics
Erdos: You can color edges between √2ᵏ vertices red/blue so no monochrome size k subgraphs (Pick a random coloring. It probably works)
5
votes
Special rational numbers that appear as answers to natural questions
This may not exactly qualify, because it's still only the conjectured answer to a question.
The question: Consider all $2$-colorings of $\{1,\dots,n\}$. What is the minimum number of monochromatic $ …
123
votes
Accepted
If you break a stick at two points chosen uniformly, the probability the three resulting sti...
Here's what seems like the sort of argument you're looking for (based off of a trick Wendel used to compute the probability the convex hull of a set of random points on a sphere contains the center of …
23
votes
What are your favorite instructional counterexamples?
Two common misconceptions that students have about the concept of independence in probability are
1) Thinking "$X$ and $Y$ are independent" means "$X$ and $Y$ don't affect each other".
2) Thinking " …