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Best Sets of Lecture Notes and Articles

may 9 at 21:19 Andrew 1,713

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A fleshed-out version of the Noncommutative Geometry proof of the Gauss-Bonnet Theorem?

reference-request noncommutative-geometry

mar 20 '12 at 10:52 Iyengar 1,210

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Getting Students to Not Fear Confusion

real-analysis soft-question teaching

aug 16 at 2:49 PPJ 310

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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 2,296

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Is there a quick proof as to why the vector space of $\mathbb{R}$ over $\mathbb{Q}$ is infinite-dimensional?

linear-algebra

sep 26 '11 at 20:12 Leon Lampret 2,712

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Pen, pencils and paper to write math [closed]

soft-question big-list

may 23 '12 at 19:46 toypajme 305

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“Cayley's theorem” for Lie algebras?

abstract-algebra lie-algebras

aug 23 '10 at 12:05 David Speyer 19.9k

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Using Gröbner bases for solving polynomial equations

algebraic-geometry commutative-algebra polynomials

mar 13 at 19:31 azimut 5,783

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Why should I care about fields of positive characteristic?

abstract-algebra field-theory

aug 17 '10 at 22:50 Andrea Mori 8,979

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intuitive explantions for the concepts of divisor and genus

intuition algebraic-geometry algebraic-curves

aug 9 '10 at 20:47 curious 1,330

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How can I lift a path to $\mathrm{Spin}(n)$?

algebraic-topology differential-geometry lie-groups

apr 24 '12 at 2:12 Changwei Zhou 1,014

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When is the sheaf corresponding to a vector bundle on a smooth manifold coherent?

algebraic-geometry differential-geometry sheaf-theory complex-geometry

feb 17 at 4:58 Martin Brandenburg 24.5k

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Visualizing the fundamental group of SO(3)

algebraic-topology lie-groups

apr 24 '12 at 21:25 Ronnie Brown 3,064

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Fundamental group of GL(n,C) is isomorphic to Z. How to learn to prove facts like this?

general-topology algebraic-topology

jan 19 '12 at 15:12 Erno Nemecsek 1,948

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Sum of two periodic functions

analysis

apr 18 at 4:10 Stahl 4,036

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PDEs on Manifolds

analysis differential-geometry pde

aug 23 at 21:22 doraemonpaul 1

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Boy Born on a Tuesday - is it just a language trick?

probability faq

may 5 '11 at 7:25 Tangent Bundle 19

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Atiyah-Macdonald Exercise 2.20 (tensor products commute with direct limits)

homework commutative-algebra tensor-products

aug 8 at 18:09 Matt N. 15.6k

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Riemannian metric making a given function harmonic

differential-geometry riemannian-geometry

jun 21 '12 at 3:02 Chris Gerig 715

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Can one use Atiyah-Singer to prove that the Chern-Weil definition of Chern classes are $\mathbb{Z}$-cohomology classes?

differential-geometry complex-geometry

jul 28 '11 at 15:13 Aaron Mazel-Gee 3,546

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If $S^1 \hookrightarrow X$ induces an injection of $H_1$, then $X$ retracts onto $S^1$

algebraic-topology

may 13 at 15:36 Tyler Lawson 886

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Where do Chern classes live? $c_1(L)\in \textrm{?}$

reference-request algebraic-geometry schemes characteristic-classes

jun 1 at 11:17 Javier Álvarez 4,899

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What does “locally trivial” do for us?

differential-topology examples-counterexamples fiber-bundles

dec 3 '11 at 5:58 MBL 377

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How do you estimate the flow rate of one fluid into another like the Deep Horizon Oil leak?

applications

aug 25 '10 at 18:11 phv3773 689

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Why does every 7-manifold bound an 8-manifold?

algebraic-topology

jan 19 '11 at 18:24 Dylan Wilson 2,269

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How to properly use GAGA correspondence

algebraic-geometry riemann-surfaces algebraic-curves sheaf-theory complex-geometry

jul 26 at 14:23 Georges Elencwajg 46.2k

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Undergraduate roadmap for Langlands program and its geometric counterpart

number-theory reference-request algebraic-geometry representation-theory automorphic-forms

feb 19 at 2:45 Orest Xherija 430

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Probability that two people see each other at the coffee shop

probability

sep 29 '10 at 4:19 Isaac 21.2k

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Does having a codimension-1 embedding of a closed manifold $M^n \subset \mathbb{R}^{n+1}$ require $M$ to be orientable?

differential-topology

nov 14 '10 at 20:23 Aaron Mazel-Gee 3,546

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Grothendieck connections and jets

algebraic-geometry differential-equations

jul 16 '11 at 9:18 Community♦ 1

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