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Is rigour just a ritual that most mathematicians wish to get rid of if they could?

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Is rule 30 Turing complete? Is there a proof that it isn't?

answered Apr 27, 2014 at 9:37

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Open problems in symbolic dynamics

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Entropy and total variation distance

answered Sep 16, 2018 at 16:41

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Math books for advanced high school students

answered Nov 5, 2014 at 21:59

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Ergodic theory: from Dynamics to Gibbs measure

answered Nov 22, 2015 at 13:21

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What are fun elementary subjects in probability?

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An established proof in Wang Tile which I doubt

answered May 28, 2014 at 8:38

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Mathematics of quasicrystals

answered Jun 19, 2012 at 15:18

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Is there an inequality relation between KL-divergence and $L_2$ norm?

answered May 22, 2021 at 19:05

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$H(p) \le H(q) + KL(p, q)$?

answered Dec 30, 2019 at 18:25

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If you were to axiomatize the notion of entropy

answered Jul 19, 2012 at 11:48

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Stone-Weierstrass for monotone functions

answered May 4, 2012 at 20:33

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When is a coarsening of a Markov chain Markov?

answered Jun 29, 2013 at 1:12

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Measurable selection

answered Dec 14, 2019 at 12:22

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$Pr(A>B)$, where $A$ and $B$ are sum of Bernoullies

answered Aug 4, 2018 at 21:18

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Apply doubly stochastic matrix M to a probability vector, then entropy increases?

answered Dec 1, 2018 at 19:25

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Uniformly approximating a function and its derivative using polynomials

answered Oct 7, 2020 at 20:45

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Bipartite graph with exactly one perfect matching

answered Aug 6, 2021 at 17:39

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Uniqueness of "Limit" of Cyclic Binary Strings

answered Jul 6, 2019 at 12:21

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Ways of proving normal distribution (with a view towards Selberg's central limit theorem)

answered Feb 9, 2022 at 15:35

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What is this disintegration-like theorem?

answered Sep 7, 2019 at 22:48

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Random suborbits of a rotation

answered Aug 2, 2015 at 12:38

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$\{\phi:\int \phi d\mu=0\}$ for a fixed shift invariant $\mu$

answered May 1, 2014 at 13:48

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compute the waiting time for a given pattern with Kac's lemma

answered Mar 30, 2013 at 11:28

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Variational Principle for the Entropy

answered May 10, 2013 at 22:16

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Do regular conditional distributions almost surely assign trivial measure to all members of the conditioning $\sigma$-algebra?

answered Aug 11, 2014 at 22:21

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Menger's Theorem for planar triangulations

answered Mar 20, 2016 at 11:50

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Support of bivariate joint distribution of stationary and ergodic sequence

answered Jun 11, 2018 at 21:10

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How to explain "Feller process" to an undergraduate student?

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Is rigour just a ritual that most mathematicians wish to get rid of if they could?

Is rule 30 Turing complete? Is there a proof that it isn't?

Open problems in symbolic dynamics

Entropy and total variation distance

Math books for advanced high school students

Ergodic theory: from Dynamics to Gibbs measure

What are fun elementary subjects in probability?

An established proof in Wang Tile which I doubt

Mathematics of quasicrystals

Is there an inequality relation between KL-divergence and $L_2$ norm?

$H(p) \le H(q) + KL(p, q)$?

If you were to axiomatize the notion of entropy

Stone-Weierstrass for monotone functions

When is a coarsening of a Markov chain Markov?

Measurable selection

$Pr(A>B)$, where $A$ and $B$ are sum of Bernoullies

Apply doubly stochastic matrix M to a probability vector, then entropy increases?

Uniformly approximating a function and its derivative using polynomials

Bipartite graph with exactly one perfect matching

Uniqueness of "Limit" of Cyclic Binary Strings

Ways of proving normal distribution (with a view towards Selberg's central limit theorem)

What is this disintegration-like theorem?

Random suborbits of a rotation

$\{\phi:\int \phi d\mu=0\}$ for a fixed shift invariant $\mu$

compute the waiting time for a given pattern with Kac's lemma

Variational Principle for the Entropy

Do regular conditional distributions almost surely assign trivial measure to all members of the conditioning $\sigma$-algebra?

Menger's Theorem for planar triangulations

Support of bivariate joint distribution of stationary and ergodic sequence

How to explain "Feller process" to an undergraduate student?