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Request for improvements to the citation bibtex format
According to my bibtex files, I have made citations in my various published articles to 71 different posts on MathOverflow, both questions and answers, often multiple times in different articles, when ...
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undelete a post
Is there any possibility of undeleting a post? I know it was closed years ago as not MO level. So maybe it could be undeleted and then moved to MSE? Just because it hosts a discussion which is ...
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Interesting (and not sufficiently answered) questions on math.SE
In light of the generally positive response to this meta-thread, I am creating this to help advertise (and hopefully fully resolve) "interesting" questions on math.SE. I'm not really certain what the ...
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Editor is not rendering the equations correctly
I haven't asked a question on Mathoverflow or Mathstackexchange but after while I decided to do so I have realized that the editor has got significantly worse. First of all it is significantly slower ...
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About the reasons for deletion of a specific question
This post is intended to solicit feedback from the community on a post made on the Math Overflow site. The link to the publication is the following:
https://mathoverflow.net/questions/458514/an-...
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Formatting Sandbox
The purpose of this thread is to enable people to check if their formatting works and to play around with their MathJax code.
Quoting from Bill Dubuque's Formatting Sandbox on meta.math.SE:
To use ...
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Requests for reopen and undelete votes for closed and deleted questions
Since I expect this may prove rather useful, I'm blatantly purloining Asaf's question from meta.math.se.
Please post general requests for reopen votes as answers below.
Beware that "short" ...
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Reopening request for question on terminology [duplicate]
An edit to explain that the question asks for a reference was included, and the tag reference was added.
Notice that the duplicate claim does not hold up to scrutiny.
So please reopen the question &...
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What to do if an answer was subjected to a minor formatting-only edit?
Recently an answer of mine (https://mathoverflow.net/a/20820/402) was edited (or rather, a suggested edit was approved by two other users).
The edit consisted exclusively of minor formatting changes, ...
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Opting out of reputation
[Disclaimer. I'm making this feature request not because I want it nor because I think it's a good idea, but because I heard it so often that there is need to discuss it. Please don't shoot the ...
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Why is it taking so much longer than it used to for MathJax to get rendered?
These last few days when I click on a posting it sometimes takes more than a minute or even two, for MathJax to get rendered. It used to be a couple of seconds.
Is anything being done to correct this?
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Getting list of users ordered by date joined
Back in the old days before we moved to the current stackexchange platform, you could list users sorted by their user number. Is it still possible to get such a list? I'm trying to remember an old-...
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What about talking about life? How to work, manage, organize, and so forth?
My question comes from a general an recurrent observation on MO (and more generally in the real academic life):
doing research (in mathematics) is a whole ecosystem, full of different tasks and ...
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Is verbal expression of objections to a posting impossible?
I confess to being mystified as to why some users (three of them, so far) have down-voted this posting. This does not seem to be explained by the vulgarity of manner that is not infrequently seen in ...
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affiliation or association (in the wording of the promotion help page)
There is a little discussion in the comments of a recent MO question on the meaning of the word "affiliation" in our promotion help page. If you promote one of your own publications in a ...
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Is there a policy or consensus about corrections in punctuation or in MathJax usage?
$$\gcd(N/q^\alpha,\sigma(N/q^\alpha)) = \begin{cases} \dfrac{N}{q^\alpha \sigma(q^\alpha)}, & \alpha \equiv 0 \pmod 2 \\[8pt] \dfrac{2N}{q^\alpha \sigma(q^\alpha)}, & \alpha \equiv 1 \pmod 2 \...
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Providing a way to sort one's favorites by "date added"?
It is nice to have so many ways of filtering and sorting the thousands of threads in MO. So there I go, and my list of favorites becomes longer and longer. Most often I obviously add rather recent ...
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On documents found over the internet and sites that make them available
Yesterday on MO I saw this question and gave this answer by posting a link I found by googling (more precisely, I used DuckDuckGo). The sought for paper is from a series of preprints issued by the ...
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Does anyone remember seeing this answer/comment? (A famous result known earlier than believed)
I remember seeing the following interesting exchange recently on MathOverflow:
someone asked a question about something,
another person ($X$) answered (or commented) that the answer is such-or-such ...
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Why does revision 5 of MO120096 look empty?
I recently came across Andrea Mori's question Explicit Casselman theory: reference needed. The comments 1 2 make reference to matrices rendering poorly, and then being fixed, and I was curious what ...
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How long are the lines?
I know that probably my place would be in a mental institution, but I'm a stickler about formatting my questions nicely.
For example, I like to start each sentence in a new line, and I don't like if a ...
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Feature: Making the MO-guidelines visible while editing questions?
I noticed that some of the MO questions that get closed are clear-cut going against the MO-guidelines eg. "here is the link to my new result" or "here is the jpg file of my homework ...
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At what point should MO recognise it needs to leave Stack Exchange Inc?
Edit Please note this is not me posting with my moderator hat on (I've signed the letter), and I didn't discuss this with the mod team before posting this. It's not within shouting distance of being ...
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Undelete request, question 455497 [duplicate]
I'm asking if question 455497 could be undeleted. It was about multiplicative persistence. Even if the question itself was not that well-prepared, it was a valid question about research (at some level ...
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Mystery popup window
Last week or so, when I get into an SE site (MO in particular), a popup window appears in the lower left corner for few milliseconds. Some kind of clickable button there, with not enough time for me ...
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Is this an AI bot? Can't tell if answer is from a real person
This question of Baez is getting a string of strange answers. I can't tell if the author is a mathematician, but their answers don't make much sense to me.
Which finite abelian groups aren't ...
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How is it possible to format a right-aligned sequence that has single and double digits so that the alignment is correct?
I have this MathJax sequence that I want to format properly in MathOverflow:
$$S_m =
\begin{cases}
\begin{aligned}
1, \quad\text{for m=1}\\
12, \quad\text{for m=2}\\
123, \quad\text{for m= 3}\\
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Account merging
I have an issue with account merging form in the help center. The 'Your other profile link' does not accept any link to the second my account.
Picture 1: Completed help form
Picture 2: Outcome of ...
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Is there a way to recover old account without email?
I would like to recover my account
https://mathoverflow.net/users/2029/andrey-gogolev
I don't seem to remember the email associated to it. Even if I did I probably don't have that email address ...
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What happened to my MathOverflow account?
I posted this question from my account two days ago. Now suddenly, I saw I don't have an account any longer. I tried to log in and Overflow created a new account. Can someone please shed some light on ...
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Should the dots used in lambda-calculus notation be typographically treated the way binary relation and binary operation symbols are?
Within this question we find the notation $\lambda f . \lambda g . \lambda x.f(g\ x)$, and that causes me to wonder about a point of LaTeX and MathJax usage.
The code ...
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How to recommend that a question is better suited for another SE site that isn't listed in the close reasons?
Today I found MO questions where commenters recommended that Proof Assistants or History of Science and Mathematics would be preferable to MO. Other better placements I remember include Mathematica, ...
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May I Offer Money to People Who Answer My Question on MathOverflow?
Erdos and others have offered prize money to people who answered their questions.
May I offer money to people who answer my questions on MathOverFlow?
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Drive-By Deletion of Answer to Own Question by Moderator
I'm a bit confused by some moderator action. I posted a question asking for a direct proof of a certain fact. A superb answer was provided by Jochen Glueck. (Thanks again!)
I came across another proof ...
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MO policy regarding pseudonyms that are other people's real name
I have noticed just now that a user has chosen as pseudonym "Alexander Grothendieck", which I'm a bit unconfortable with (the probability that it is also that user's name is extremely low, hence my ...
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There is no any answer box for this post
I would like to add an answer to this question but there is no any answer box for this question.
What is the reason?
Nonequivalent definitions in Mathematics
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Posting a technical/narrow open question on mathoverflow?
I am a bit confused on our policy for open-problems. Are we allowed to post a technical/narrow conjecture/open problem on MO?
For example, here is a type of a beautiful question that I have in mind ...
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Is asking to verify my P=NP proof appropriate?
Is providing link to my (8 pages) proof of P=NP and asking to check my proof appropriate for a MathOverflow question?
The proof is on professional mathematician level (uses advanced logics) and does ...
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Is deleting posts a good practice?
In principle, MO posts can be cited in papers; on the other hand, MO posts get deleted sometimes. There is a risk, then, of referring a MO post which no longer exists. Is deleting posts a good ...
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Long display style formulae extend too much to the right with some renderers
In the following screen capture, take a look at the region delimited by the red rectangle: notice how it extends too much to the right, such that a part of it becomes hidden by the yellow page element....
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FirefoxCP Isolated Web Content CPU overdrive
Just recently, MathOverflow has started to cause Firefox to use massive CPU resources, at least on my machine. In particular, I'm on a Macbook Pro 2.3 GHz 8-Core Intel Core i9 running Ventura 13.4.1 ...
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The tag (elementary-number-theory) - yes or no?
The tag elementary-number-theory was created and removed a few times in the past. And recently it was created again - it is still listed among the new tags.
Should there be a separate tag for ...
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Writing personal notes on specific questions
It would be nice to be able to add non-public notes for oneself on interesting questions on MO (of which there are very many), for later remembrance and further thinking on it. These notes can remain ...
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Moderation strike update 5 : the results of negotiations
The negotiations over the strike have ended with agreement addressing all the issues raised by the striking moderators. The post on meta.StackExchange was vetted and agreed to by both sets of ...
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Moderation strike update 6 and last : back to work
As you probably were aware, since early June moderators around the whole SE network have been striking, including at MathOverflow. We appreciate your patience through this time, and there has been a ...
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"In the past one and half years, Stack Overflow has lost 50% of its traffic."
In a tweet by Mahesh Sathiamoorthy, I saw a chart showing a substantial recent drop:
Two questions: (1) Is this accurate? (2) What does the analogous chart for MathOverflow show?
(I can't remember ...
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Are questions about mathematical writing acceptable on the main site?
I have a question concerning mathematical writing, a draft of which is posted below if you are interested. The question I wish to ask on Meta however is about whether questions concerning mathematical ...
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News of potential interest to the MO community
Occasionally, there has been a suggestion to start a meta question to collect information that might be of interest to the MO community. This is an attempt to start such a thread.
Is there any news ...
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What would be the disadvantages of a (hypothetical) MOexit?
The hypothetical possibility of MO leaving StackExchange was mentioned here on meta.MO a few years ago and was mentioned again recently. In a comment, Sam Hopkins asked what I think is a good ...
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Transferring a misplaced question after it has a positively received answer
I recently goof'd and forgot that hsm.stackexchange exists, and posted a history of mathematics question here.
This was kindly pointed out to me by a user here, but the question already had a ...
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