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Nick Alger
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What are some examples of a mathematical result being counterintuitive?
May 4 '12
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Motivation for Ramanujan's mysterious $\pi$ formula
Dec 13 '10
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Intuitively, what is the difference between Eigendecomposition and Singular Value Decomposition?
Mar 4 '13
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What is the intuition behind Chebyshev's Inequality in Measure Theory
May 12 '21
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Explain "homotopy" to me
Feb 10 '16
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Category of all categories vs. Set of all sets
Nov 11 '10
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Meaning of Exponential map
Oct 31 '14
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Does local convexity imply global convexity?
May 16 '12
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Gradient of squared $2$-norm
Dec 6 '14
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Why is determinant a multilinear function?
May 16 '17
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Why is Newton's method not widely used in machine learning?
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Normalizable wavefunction that does not vanish at infinity
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Physical meaning of Legendre transformation

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