That's basically the punchline for the funniest math joke I ever heard (usually they are such groaners). A mathematician and engineer go to a physics talk where the speaker discusses 23-dimensional …

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Jan 7, 2012 · I know of two good mathematics videos available online, namely: Sphere inside out (part I and part II) Moebius transformation revealed Do you know of any other good math videos? Share.

Mar 20, 2024 · I personally find the horse race aspect of being a mathematician very upsetting and am skeptical of a direct comparison of theorems, papers, journals, mathematicians (movies, musicians, …

I am looking for mathematical documentaries, both technical and non-technical. They should be "interesting" in that they present either actual mathematics, mathematicians or history of mathematics....

In math, when we're going about our daily lives, most of the time people don't care about rigor: intuitive arguments, exhibiting a few terms in a pattern, and arguing from experience and approximation work …

Feb 2, 2023 · I believe that there are numerous challenging theorems in mathematics for which only a sketch of a proof exists. To meet the standards of rigor, a complete proof of these theorems has yet …

Mar 11, 2025 · I recently learned about the Balmer spectrum of an $\\infty$ monoidal category, which is a categorification of the prime spectrum of a ring. There are various results stating that in the case of …

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What are the recent and new applications of Mathematics in other Sciences ? Let me try to be more precise about the question: By "recent" I mean the last 15 years. By "new" I want to exclude the