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Thomason's "open letter" to the mathematical community
A copy of Thomason's open letter to the mathematical community can be found here.
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Thomason's "open letter" to the mathematical community
Because a link to the original letter has been posted, I have posted here, for historical completeness, a link to the handwritten followup letter that Thomason sent out to the same mailing list a few ...
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Jon Beck's untitled manuscript containing the "tripleability theorem" (i.e. the monadicity theorem)
After reaching out to every researcher who cited the manuscript, John Kennison was kind enough to find and scan his copy of the untitled manuscript containing the crude and precise monadicity theorems....
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Looking for a paper on transfinite diameter by David Cantor
Hopefully this works:
Cantor D.: On an extension of the definition of transfinite diameter and some applications
Since you said that you had "been hunting for the following paper for quite a ...
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Frobenius' article and the Markoff number unicity conjecture
I found Frobenius's 1913 publication in the Biodiversity Heritage Library. (Somehow Google Scholar does not index it.) You can view the paper online and download the pdf by submitting an email address....
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Where can I find the following math paper?
In future, Google Scholar is your friend, and while MathSciNet is mostly behind a paywall, if you have some form of library or institutional access, then that is even better. Zentrallblatt (zbmath) is ...
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Papers of the masters translated to English in one location
Most of the famous 19th century mathematicians have their collected works published and some of them have been digitized. But they are all in the original language. Translations into English are rare. ...
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Famous but unavailable paper of Jan Boman
I went and scanned it in our library. Here's a Dropbox link.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/ks9gdgi0xwl5j65/Boman%20-%20Lp-estimates%20for%20very%20strongly%20elliptic%20systems.pdf?dl=0
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Boardman's thesis or mimeographed notes
Boardman's thesis was (re)published a year later
as three separate booklets,
and a PDF scan of all three booklets is available on my scans page:
J. M. Boardman. Stable homotopy theory.
University of ...
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B. W. Jordan's thesis on arithmetic of Shimura curves
This is Bruce Jordan. Essentially all the relevant parts of the thesis are in print: there is a Crelle paper on global points on Shimura curves and a Math. Ann. paper with Livne on local points. ...
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Pixley and Roy article request
I was visiting Auburn today and obtained a scan.
https://github.com/StevenClontz/research/blob/master/miscellaneous/SKM_C650i23042612550.pdf
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Tracking a reference: "Karl Scherer, A Puzzling Journey to the Reptiles and Related Animals"
Here is the web page for the book, with a table of contents, and a description:
Written as a fiction, this book is about a type of geometrical puzzles
called 'irregular reptiles' or 'irreptiles'. ...
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Jon Beck's untitled manuscript containing the "tripleability theorem" (i.e. the monadicity theorem)
I checked the TAC reprint of Beck's Triples, Algebras, and Cohomology from 1967. It is evident from the discussion at pag. 8, before Thm. 1 that tripleability was not presented in writing by Beck ...
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Searching for an early, highly theoretical, even philosophical, math paper on models or small-world networks
Stanley Milgram, The Small World Problem, Psychology Today 2, 60 (1967)
seems to fit the bill: +50 years old, "kind of philosophical", and yes, iconic -- cited more than 9,000 times. There ...
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Gerhard Frey, "Links between stable elliptic curves and certain diophantine equations"
Please find here the scanned version of the manuscript Links between stable elliptic curves and certain diophantine equations by Gerhard Frey.
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Where can I find the following S. Shelah's paper?
please get the pdf here.
note that the text itself starts on page 5.
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Reference request for Kato's paper: A generalization of local class field theory by using K -groups
I found this old question while searching for Kato's paper myself. Just in case anyone else is also still looking for these, here's what I found.
Kato's work was published in three installments in J. ...
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Literature Request: Berger Spheres and their Construction
For a different viewpoint, the Berger Spheres or their Lorentzian analogues are well understood using the canonical variation of the metric associated with a Riemannian submersion with totally ...
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Boardman's thesis or mimeographed notes
Here is a link to Duality and Thom Spectra, which is the fifth part of the notes by J. M. Boardman that were mimeographed at the University of Warwick in 1965–1966 and covered the material in his 1964 ...
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Paper request : “A random integral and Orlicz spaces” from K. Urbanick
Here it is, not the best quality scan, but it should serve the purpose.
Urbanik and Woyczynski (1967)
(the URL is also archived on the Wayback Machine, so it should last)
I notice that some older ...
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Math history research: a copy of "Zur relativen Wertbemessung der Turnierresultate" , eigenvector centrality by Edmund Landau
The paper which actually was Landau's first scientific paper written at the tender age of 18, was published in his Collected Works, vol. 1. In it, he proposes to rank chess players having played a ...
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Copy of paper by M. Naimi on squarefree friable integers
Simply trying to put Naimi "Les entiers sans facteurs carré" into Google leads to a PDF file which contains the corresponding volume of Publications Mathématiques d'Orsay - including this ...
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Reference request for a preprint by Effros-Ruan
I am not sure that requests for filesharing are appropriate for MO, but in this case I think I can justify it to myself, because the preprint you refer to was (probably) the one that became the ...
6
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Almgren's mimeographed lectures notes on varifolds
This question has already an accepted answer and it was long inactive: nevertheless I find compelling to say what I just found by googling the internet. It seems that recently the IAS has started a ...
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Fontaine, J.-M.; Illusie, L. p-adic periods------Does any one have the following article?
It seems clear that there is no online version available, but a library can probably get a PDF copy through interlibrary loan if that's an option for you. The detailed listing is here. Note too ...
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Locating the typed version of Hoàng Xuân Sính's thesis on Gr-categories
The TeXed version can be found on
https://webusers.imj-prg.fr/~leila.schneps/grothendieckcircle/SinhThesis.pdf
Cristian David Gonzalez Avilés is the author of the TeX version. For reasons unknown to ...
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Boardman's thesis or mimeographed notes
Boardman's Ph.D. thesis is available at the Cambridge University Library:
https://idiscover.lib.cam.ac.uk/primo-explore/fulldisplay?docid=44CAM_ALMA21579046710003606&vid=44CAM_PROD
The library ...
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On a series of lectures of Deligne on crystalline cohomology in characteristic $0$
After asking Mr Le Stum for the scan which Emily talked about in the comments to the original post, he kindly sent it to me, with permission to share it publicly. It is, according to him, a "bad ...
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Good papers on stochastic differential equations with applications in finance
As indicated in the comments, the field is very wide, but I understand from the comment of the OP to zab's answer that there is a specific interest in the more narrow subtopic of applications of ...
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