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Deane Yang
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Professor of Mathematics, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University

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Why do so many textbooks have so much technical detail and so little enlightenment?
Jan 27, 2010
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Why do we teach calculus students the derivative as a limit?
Sep 27, 2010
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Why study Lie algebras?
Mar 17, 2011
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What's a great christmas present for someone with a PhD in Mathematics?
Dec 11, 2020
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Proofs that require fundamentally new ways of thinking
Dec 11, 2010
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Parodies of abstruse mathematical writing
Mar 14, 2015
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Is there a complex structure on the 6-sphere?
Oct 22, 2009
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John Nash's Mathematical Legacy
May 24, 2015
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How has "what every mathematician should know" changed?
Mar 26, 2010
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Too old for advanced mathematics?
Jun 7, 2010
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Tenure vs nontenure jobs
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Why must differential forms be antisymmetric?
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What's the intuition behind the Co-Area formula?
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On the definition of a tensor in the study of manifolds
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Deduce the shape of a manifold from the Riemannian metric

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