Hacker News
- Math Overflow users resolve PhD thesis crisis https://mathoverflow.net/questions/366765/issue-update-in-graph-theory-different-definitions-of-edge-crossing-numbers 127 comments
- Mathoverflow.net - for research level math questions http://mathoverflow.net 19 comments
- Math Overflow (A StackExchange site for Maths) http://mathoverflow.net/ 17 comments
Lobsters
- Most harmful (mathematical) heuristic ever taught http://mathoverflow.net/q/2358/85415 2 comments math
- MathOverflow discussion on the golden ratio in contemporary mathematics https://mathoverflow.net/questions/403184/golden-ratio-in-contemporary-mathematics 6 comments math
- When is every Levy martingale of a process a continuous martingale? https://mathoverflow.net/questions/402811/when-is-every-levy-martingale-of-a-process-a-continuous-martingale 5 comments math
- Need advice or assistance for son who is in prison. His interest is scattering theory https://mathoverflow.net/questions/382003/need-advice-or-assistance-for-son-who-is-in-prison-his-interest-is-scattering-t 43 comments math
- User on MathOverflow realizes he made an early crucial misunderstanding on the core content of his Ph.D. thesis 2 weeks before submission. Other users come to the rescue and he is able to resolve the issue. https://mathoverflow.net/q/366765/161613 63 comments math
- Fields Medallist William Thurston: "The product of mathematics is clarity and understanding. Not theorems, by themselves. ... There is no way to run out of ideas in need of clarification. The question of who is the first person to ever set foot on some square meter of land is really secondary." https://mathoverflow.net/posts/44213/revisions 35 comments math
- On MathOverflow: Results that are widely accepted but no proof has appeared https://mathoverflow.net/questions/357317/results-that-are-widely-accepted-but-no-proof-has-appeared 31 comments math
- On MathOverflow: "Nontrivially fillable gaps in published proofs of major theorems" https://mathoverflow.net/questions/352249/nontrivially-fillable-gaps-in-published-proofs-of-major-theorems 65 comments math
- MathOverflow discussion: Decision problems for which it is unknown whether they are decidable https://mathoverflow.net/questions/345388/decision-problems-for-which-it-is-unknown-whether-they-are-decidable 3 comments compsci
- Has anyone studied spaces based on the number of centers circles have on them? https://mathoverflow.net/questions/345675/has-anyone-studied-spaces-based-on-the-number-of-centers-circles-have-on-them 4 comments math
- MathOverflow: Why do polynomials with 0-1 coefficients like to have only factors with 0-1 coefficients? https://mathoverflow.net/q/339137/104733 8 comments math
- PDE community on MathOverflow https://mathoverflow.net/ 15 comments math
- On MathOverflow: "What's the most harmful heuristic (towards proper mathematics education), you've seen taught/accidentally taught/were taught? When did handwaving inhibit proper learning?" https://mathoverflow.net/questions/2358/most-harmful-heuristic/ 52 comments math
- Another episode of isomorphism vs. equality https://mathoverflow.net/questions/307266/why-modding-out-the-homeomorphism-in-the-category-top-makes-no-rigorous-sense 10 comments math
- Notions of Impossible in Probability Theory https://mathoverflow.net/questions/49426/is-there-a-category-structure-one-can-place-on-measure-spaces-so-that-category-t/49542#49542 172 comments math
- Fractal covering of a plane with complex-base numeral systems - is periodicity necessary? https://mathoverflow.net/questions/295430/complex-base-numeral-systems-is-periodicity-necessary 4 comments math
- Which popular games are the most mathematical? [MathOverflow discussion] https://mathoverflow.net/questions/13638/which-popular-games-are-the-most-mathematical 12 comments math
- On MathOverflow: "Are there examples of originally widely accepted proofs that were later shown to be wrong by formalizing them using a proof assistant (e.g. Coq, Agda, Lean)?" https://mathoverflow.net/questions/291158/proofs-shown-to-be-wrong-after-formalization-with-proof-assistant 13 comments math
- What does it mean to suspect that two conjectures are logically equivalent? | mathoverflow https://mathoverflow.net/q/284230 7 comments math
- Mathematical games interesting to both you and a 5+-year-old child https://mathoverflow.net/questions/281447/mathematical-games-interesting-to-both-you-and-a-5-year-old-child 2 comments math
- Why is the Gradient normal to the Tangent Plane at a Point when it also points in the Direction of Steepest Ascent? http://mathoverflow.net/questions/1977/why-is-the-gradient-normal 15 comments math
- A "sin-omial" identity for binomial coefficients http://mathoverflow.net/questions/253703/integral-of-a-sin-omial-coefficients-binomial 4 comments math
- Is there an intuitive explanation for why this works? https://mathoverflow.net/questions/44096/detecting-whether-directed-cycle-is-clockwise-or-counterclockwise/44098?newreg=4fc5fdd4fb9749b5b0d74cca6f67c8c2 3 comments math
- When has pure mathematics been influenced by the social context of mathematicians?--MathOverflow http://mathoverflow.net/questions/101052/when-has-pure-mathematics-been-influenced-by-the-social-context-of-mathematician 9 comments math
- Why do roots of polynomials tend to have absolute value 1? http://mathoverflow.net/questions/182412/why-do-roots-of-polynomials-tend-to-have-absolute-value-1 17 comments math
- Have any long-suspected irrational numbers turned out to be rational? http://mathoverflow.net/questions/32967/have-any-long-suspected-irrational-numbers-turned-out-to-be-rational 54 comments math
- Examples of unexpected mathematical images http://mathoverflow.net/questions/178139/examples-of-unexpected-mathematical-images 11 comments math
- The Noetherian Ring Game http://mathoverflow.net/questions/93276/a-game-on-noetherian-rings 3 comments math
- Terry Tao and others share their intuition for high-dimensional spaces. Hard to parse, but interesting. http://mathoverflow.net/q/25983/27933 30 comments math
- TIL that Graham's number, held to be the largest number appearing in a serious proof, was not used in Graham's original paper; Graham found a much better (still unimaginably large) bound but gave Martin Gardner Graham's number over the phone because it was easier to explain and still an upper bound http://mathoverflow.net/questions/117006/reconstructing-the-argument-that-yields-grahams-number 8 comments math
- Big list of video lectures of graduate mathematics courses available online for free http://mathoverflow.net/q/54430/27933 26 comments math
- Which math paper maximizes the ratio (importance)/(length)? http://mathoverflow.net/questions/7330/which-math-paper-maximizes-the-ratio-importance-length 30 comments math
- How do you feel about math.stackexchange and mathoverflow? http://mathoverflow.net/ 23 comments math
- Examples of interesting false "proofs" http://mathoverflow.net/questions/94742/examples-of-interesting-false-proofs 22 comments math
- A problem concerning the Sum of Divisors http://mathoverflow.net/questions/14459/are-there-pairs-of-consecutive-integers-with-the-same-sum-of-factors 12 comments math
- What's the name of this sequence? It's not on oeis.org http://mathoverflow.net/questions/55831/how-many-permutations-for-each-sum-of-digits-of-a-number-of-length-l-solved-but 5 comments math
- Examples of common false beliefs in mathematics. Thoughts? http://mathoverflow.net/questions/23478/examples-of-common-false-beliefs-in-mathematics 73 comments math
- How mathematicians think in dimensions above 3 and 4 http://mathoverflow.net/questions/25983/intuitive-crutches-for-higher-dimensional-thinking 41 comments math
- Why are tensors a generalization of scalars, vectors, and matrices? http://mathoverflow.net/questions/18570/why-are-tensors-a-generalization-of-scalars-vectors-and-matrices 9 comments math
- Favorite popular math book. http://mathoverflow.net/questions/8609/favorite-popular-math-book 5 comments math
- What are the most important applications outside of mathematics of each of the major fields of mathematics? http://mathoverflow.net/questions/2556/real-world-applications-of-mathematics-by-arxiv-subject-area 7 comments math
- Math Overflow - like Stack Overflow, but for math questions http://mathoverflow.net/ 25 comments math
Linking pages
- Nick Craver - HTTPS on Stack Overflow: The End of a Long Road https://nickcraver.com/blog/2017/05/22/https-on-stack-overflow/ 221 comments
- Learn Difficult Concepts with the ADEPT Method – BetterExplained https://betterexplained.com/articles/adept-method/ 78 comments
- Stack Exchange Raises $40m – Joel on Software http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2015/01/20.html 42 comments
- Okay, Maybe Proofs Aren't Dying After All - Scientific American Blog Network https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/cross-check/okay-maybe-proofs-arent-dying-after-all/ 34 comments
- The Data Science of MathOverflow—Wolfram Blog https://blog.wolfram.com/2019/02/01/the-data-science-of-mathoverflow/ 29 comments
- Contrasts in Number Theory - Scientific American Blog Network http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/roots-of-unity/contrasts-in-number-theory/ 21 comments
- GitHub - rossant/awesome-math: A curated list of awesome mathematics resources https://github.com/rossant/awesome-math 12 comments
- GitHub - KatherineMichel/tech-and-funding-toolkit: Tech and Funding Toolkit https://github.com/KatherineMichel/tech-and-funding-toolkit 0 comments
- Gladwell on Social Media and Activism - The Atlantic http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2010/09/gladwell-on-social-media-and-activism/63623/ 0 comments
- Beyond Facebook: How the World's Mathematicians Organize Online - The Atlantic http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2010/09/beyond-facebook-how-the-worlds-mathematicians-organize-online/63422/ 0 comments
- Debate Over P vs. NP Proof Highlights Web Collaboration - The New York Times http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/17/science/17proof.html 0 comments
- ‘Open Science’ Challenges Journal Tradition With Web Collaboration - The New York Times http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/17/science/open-science-challenges-journal-tradition-with-web-collaboration.html 0 comments
- Pluto and Open Science. Open Science in South Korea | by Yoonji Kim | Pluto Labs | Medium https://medium.com/pluto-network/pluto-and-open-science-fa3f70aae3ca 0 comments
- Big Math and the One-Brain Barrier: The Tetrapod Model of Mathematical Knowledge | SpringerLink https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00283-020-10006-0 0 comments
- GitHub - llSourcell/learn_math_fast: This is the Curriculum for "How to Learn Mathematics Fast" By Siraj Raval on Youtube https://github.com/llSourcell/learn_math_fast 0 comments
- Building a community platform | Jon Quixote https://jlericson.com/2023/11/04/platform_building_so.html 0 comments