User Elliott - Mathematics Stack Exchange

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Where can one find (freely, online) mathematical articles with a fighting chance to be understood by high school students and undergraduates?

aug 27 '11 at 2:56 Byron Schmuland 15.4k

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Connection between fourier transform and taylor series

intuition fourier-analysis taylor-expansion integral-transforms

mar 19 '11 at 8:49 Christian Blatter 32.3k

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100 boxes of fruits - pick 51 and get at least half of each type?

combinatorics contest-math

aug 27 '10 at 22:44 Larry Wang 2,864

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Best Algebraic Geometry text book? (other than Hartshorne)

big-list reference-request algebraic-geometry

nov 25 at 9:57 Javier Álvarez 4,774

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Largest Part of a Random Weak Composition

probability combinatorics

jun 11 '11 at 0:04 Mike Spivey 25.8k

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(Theoretical) Multivariable Calculus Textbooks

reference-request big-list self-learning multivariable-calculus

jun 17 '11 at 22:27 Community♦ 1

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What is the deepest / most interesting known connection between Trigonometry and Statistics?

statistics soft-question trigonometry big-list

jun 12 '11 at 21:43 Chris Simokat 101

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How to study math to really understand it and have a healthy lifestyle with free time?

soft-question advice

dec 31 at 5:24 Grigor 1

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Contemporary Mathematical Columns in Magazines

recreational-mathematics

oct 18 at 16:09 Joseph Malkevitch 3,532

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Fun Linear Algebra Problems

linear-algebra big-list

jun 11 '11 at 7:41 Joel Cohen 3,669

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what is separation of variables

pde

dec 6 at 22:24 doraemonpaul 3,021

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Norms Induced by Inner Products and the Parallelogram Law

functional-analysis inner-product-space norm

apr 23 at 21:09 somaye 1,733

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Why do we define quotient groups for normal subgroups only?

group-theory

feb 14 '12 at 6:06 Srivatsan 15.6k

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Why is the area under a curve the integral?

calculus integral intuition

feb 24 at 20:02 Jacob Mayle 656

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Is factoring polynomials as hard as factoring numbers?

polynomials

mar 10 '11 at 21:14 Joseph 1,906

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Lebesgue integral basics

analysis integral probability-theory probability

feb 23 '11 at 7:43 Shai Covo 16.9k

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Basic Taylor expansion question

calculus taylor-expansion

dec 20 '10 at 4:59 Arturo Magidin 158k

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Subjects studied in number theory

number-theory

nov 22 '11 at 5:31 Matt E 57.6k

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Math Major: How to read textbooks in better style or method ? And how to select best books?

soft-question reference-request self-learning learning

apr 26 '11 at 22:13 Yuval Filmus 25.9k

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Efficient computation of $E\left[\frac{1}{1+\sum_iX_i}\right]$ where $X_i$ is RV with Bernoulli distribution with different probabilities

probability statistics computational-complexity

jun 8 '11 at 17:30 dmuir 366

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how to find the balls?

puzzle

jun 9 '11 at 4:16 Mike Spivey 25.8k

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If a 1 meter rope is cut at two uniformly randomly chosen points (to give three pieces), what is the average length of the smallest piece?

probability

jan 19 '11 at 21:23 Mike Spivey 25.8k

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Very simple dice game

probability

jul 5 '11 at 18:47 Elliott 1,674

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Your favourite maths puzzles

soft-question big-list puzzle

aug 23 at 13:52 Mad Scientist 129

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Is learning (theoretical) physics useful/important for a mathematician?

soft-question big-list physics

nov 20 at 0:08 Community♦ 1

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What is the geometric interpretation of the transpose?

linear-algebra

may 6 '11 at 17:30 Georges Elencwajg 44.8k

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Which one result in maths has surprised you the most?

big-list

mar 8 at 20:38 Arthur Fischer 21.3k

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Hyperbolic critters studying Euclidean geometry

geometry euclidean-geometry hyperbolic-geometry

mar 13 '12 at 4:35 Blue 6,364

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Interesting results easily achieved using complex numbers

complex-analysis complex-numbers

jan 24 at 3:40 Argon 9,248

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If $AB = I$ then $BA = I$

linear-algebra matrices

may 1 at 22:19 mezhang 1,401

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