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 | |
Results tagged with big-list
Search options not deleted
user 4281
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.
138
votes
Most harmful heuristic?
Along the same lines as Qiaochu's and Zach's responses, the commonly taught heuristics pertaining to functions, differentiability and integration are a pet hate of mine.
I certainly left school think …
55
votes
17
answers
16k
views
Computer science for mathematicians
This is a big-list community question, so I'm sorry in advance if it is deemed too soft but I haven't seen anything similar yet.
I've seen computer scientists post questions looking to learn things …
34
votes
Accepted
Introductory text on Riemannian geometry
Personally, for the basics, I can't recommend John M. Lee's "Riemannian Manifolds: An Introduction to Curvature" highly enough. If you already know a lot though, then it might be too basic, because it …
11
votes
5
answers
4k
views
Brownian motion, martingales, Markov Chains - Rosetta Stone
What are the most
fundamental/useful/interesting ways in
which the concepts of Brownian motion,
martingales and markov chains are
related?
I'm a graduate student doing a crash course in p …
8
votes
What is the definition of "canonical"?
I would say that "canonical" ought to be used to describe when no choices have been made.
A nice example of a non-canonical identification: A principal bundle is made up of principal homogeneous spac …
6
votes
Ingenuity in mathematics
Mathematicians are used to seeing these sorts of problems and are generally more intrigued by their solutions, but I came across this recently:
Colour every point in the plane either black or white.
…
6
votes
Which book would you like to see "texified"?
Leon Simon - Lectures on Geometric Measure Theory
2
votes
Proving theorems by using functions with fixed points.
I am familiar with a good example from the theory of 2nd order elliptic PDE. Technicalities omitted...
A special case of the Leray-Schauder Theorem says the following:
Let $T$ be a compact mapping o …
0
votes
Applications of connectedness
You can get the maximum principle for subharmonic functions: Write $F$ for the supremum of $f$ in $\Omega$, write $A$ for the set where $f = F$ and $B$ for the set where $f < F$. Then
$\Omega = A \cu …