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How does a non-mathematician go about publishing a proof in a way that ensures it to be up to the mathematical community's standards?
I'm a computer science student who is a maths hobbyist. I'm convinced that I've proven a major conjecture. The problem lies in that I've never published anything before and am not a mathematician by ...
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Lemma or proposition?
Let statement 1 be an obvious consequence of the statement 2. Let the statement 1 go before the statement 2 in the text. The statement 1 is actually used to prove statement 2.
I label the statement 2 ...
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Are there any common practices in mathematics to guard against mistakes?
It occurred to me that math is somewhat like programming (or vice-versa, if you prefer) because, in both, it is easy to make mistakes or overlook them, and the smallest error or misguided assumption ...
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how can I present an idea about the difference between two functions clearly?
I have a presentation in which I want to point out a difference between two functions.
Instead of putting the two functions on a slide and pointing to the differences, I want to do something simple.
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