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Questions that are about research in mathematics, or about the job of a research mathematician, without being mathematical problems or statements in the strictest sense. Do not use this tag for easy or supposedly easy mathematical questions.
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What are the most misleading alternate definitions in taught mathematics?
I find simplicial homology very difficult. In particular, I find the idea of a simplicial complex very hard to comprehend, except in the case of an abstract simplicial complex. Although it's not equ …
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What are the most misleading alternate definitions in taught mathematics?
Since this is a big list, I might as well comment 5 years later.
David Corwin mentioned tensor products, and the top post is about linear algebra, so I thought I would mention that, in my opinion, co …