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15 votes

Short papers for undergraduate course on reading scholarly math

9 votes

A good reference to grok hypergeometric functions?

8 votes

What are fun elementary subjects in probability?

8 votes
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Generalized linear models: What's the benefit of the underlying theory?

7 votes

Pseudonyms of famous mathematicians

7 votes

Lorentzian vs Gaussian Fitting Functions

6 votes

Books about history of recent mathematics

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What's the standard name for sets of a given size with maximal probability (or a given probability and minimal size)?

5 votes

Interesting thesis topic on statistical inference that is sufficiently mathematical

4 votes

Mean -> Frechet mean, Standard deviation ->?

4 votes

Examples of great mathematical writing

4 votes

How close are two Gaussian random variables?

4 votes

Explicit computations using the Haar measure

4 votes

Awfully sophisticated proof for simple facts

4 votes

Notable mathematics during World War II

3 votes

Probability, preferential attachment, "rich get richer"

3 votes

median of matrices

3 votes

Why were matrix determinants once such a big deal?

3 votes

Bayesian statistics for pure mathematicians

3 votes

Gaussian distributions as fixed points in Some distribution space

3 votes

Proofs that require fundamentally new ways of thinking

3 votes

Examples of mathematics motivated by technological considerations

3 votes

Listing applications of the SVD

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Entropy of probability distributions on a sphere

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Experimental mathematics leading to major advances

2 votes

What is the most useful non-existing object of your field?

2 votes

More recently published comprehensive reference on inequalities in the spirit of Hardy-Littlewood-Pólya

2 votes

Fundamental Examples

2 votes

Applications of the notion of of Gromov-Hausdorff distance

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probability computation involving sum of log-normal random variables