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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.
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Prominent non-mathematical work of mathematicians
I think, John F. Nash fits in this category, because of 1994 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. (I am not aware the details of his work, I just know this because of "A beautiful mind" movie! …
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Prominent non-mathematical work of mathematicians
Glen E. Bredon is the author of the programs DOS.MASTER for Apple II computers, Merlin (a macro assembler) and ProSel for Apple machines. He was the professor of mathematics at Berkley and IAS and au …
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Prominent non-mathematical work of mathematicians
Not so prominent I think but I'd like to mention that the MathTime Professional 2 (MTPro2) fonts were designed by Michael Spivak of Publish or Perish Inc., see here.
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Interesting mathematical documentaries
Pits, Peaks, and Passes: A Lecture on Critical Point Theory about Marston Morse.
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Prominent non-mathematical work of mathematicians
Abu Rayhan al-Biruni (973 – after 1050) was an Iranian polymath, physicist, astronomer, natural sciences, historian, chronologist and linguist. One of the best his achievements is a method proposed a …
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Examples of common false beliefs in mathematics
I already thought that the following two sets of matrices are one.
$$M(\color{blue}{\Bbb R},2n)\qquad \text{and}\qquad M(\color{red}{\Bbb C},n).$$
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Prominent non-mathematical work of mathematicians
First of all, sorry if this post is not appropriate for this forum.
I have a habit that every time I read a beautiful article I look at the author's homepage and often find amazing things.
Recently I …
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Books you would like to see translated into English
Dissertation of Hopf: "Über Zusammenhänge zwischen Topologie und Metrik von Mannigfaltigkeiten" (En: Connections between topology and metric of manifolds).
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LaTeX tricks that save time in typesetting
Commands like \pd{f}{x} (= $\frac{\partial f}{\partial x}$) defined by \newcommand\pd[2]{\frac{\partial #1}{\partial #2}} is very useful. It would be better if there is a generalized command of this l …
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Books you would like to see translated into English
I haven't read the following, I want to read it just because in his books, Milnor referred to it for some proofs.
Cerf, J., Sur les difféomorphismes de la sphère de dimension trois ($\Gamma_ 4 = 0$), …
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Examples of great mathematical writing
Comparison Theorems in Riemannian Geometry by Jeff Cheeger and David Ebin.
Why it is great:
... this is a wonderful book, full of fundamental techniques and ideas. (Robert L. Bryant)
Cheege …
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LaTeX tricks that save time in typesetting
In ${\rm\LaTeX}$ typesetting, when we repeat a long and complex formula in long documents, it is appropriate to create a new command that just by calling this new command we get the desired output. Fo …
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Errata for Bott and Tu's book "Differential Forms in Algebraic Topology"
Here is the comment to this book in author's web page:
Differential Forms in Algebraic Topology (with Raoul Bott), third corrected printing, Graduate Text in Mathematics, Springer, New York, 1995.
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Old books you would like to have reprinted with high-quality typesetting
I don't know whether the book mentioned in the question is readable or not yet; so I post it as an answer:
Curvature and Betti numbers by K. Yano and S. Bochner.
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Old books you would like to have reprinted with high-quality typesetting
Stong, Robert E. (1968). Notes on cobordism theory. Mathematical notes. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.