All Questions

1,688 questions
Filter by
Sorted by
Tagged with
386 views

Utility of Mathematics: Is this question appropriate here, and if not/if so, how can I phrase it better?

I would like to know if this question is appropriate for Math Overflow, and if so, how I can phrase it better to get the best results. Question: I recently spoke with a very nice mathematician who ...
• 101
345 views

• 8,059
304 views

What should you do if you find old duplicates?

Sometimes I discover that "old" MO questions are duplicates of even older MO questions. Two examples: Embarrassingly, I found out that my own question: Formula for number of permutations ...
• 19.3k
258 views

Is asking about name of a curve a research level question?

In my opinion this post is not a research level topic but surprisingly it has been received 22 votes. Is the linked post a research level question and appropriate for MO? I think it is more ...
• 4,045
354 views

I have been reviewing a lot of older posts (~10 years old) and there are quite a few with links that are either dead or links that point to sites that no longer contain the relevant information that ...
• 249
318 views

Can I retag questions to get a topic badge?

This is just something I was wondering: I currently have 19 non-CW answers in real-analysis. Could I just go through my old answers looking for a question which involves real analysis but hasn't been ...
• 140k
1 vote
113 views

Updated questions

The following question of mine frequently appears as recently updated question so I frequently find it at front page. But neither me nor other participants did any revise or edit on this post and its ...
2k views

Should graduate students be encouraged to participate in MO? If so, at what stage?

When I started graduate school ten (!) years ago, a more senior Ph.D student at the time told me about MathOverflow and encouraged me to participate. Ever since then I have found it immensely useful. ...
• 21.6k
127 views

What is up with the "Question feed" vs. "Related Questions"?

When looking at a question, for at least the past few months I've noticed an inconsistency in what displays in the righthand sidebar. What I expect to see is a list of "related questions" -- ...
• 50.4k
609 views

Did spacing increase recently?

Yesterday I noticed that line spacing in questions & answers is bigger than before, something like 1.5 Is there some global change, or is it a bug? Or maybe I do have a bug or something? Can I ...
• 16.3k
333 views

How to report intrisically spammy user accounts?

Sometimes, I notice that some very odd username is listed on Home as having earned the "Autobiographer" badge, where by "odd" I mean something very much non-mathematical and ...
• 2,489
107 views

Can I delete one of my posts that has been closed as off topic and received an answer with positive up-vote?

Can I delete one of my posts that has been closed as off topic and received an answer with positive up-vote? Should I delete all my posts that has been closed as off topic? (with/out answer)
• 4,045
254 views

How can this user have a negative year reputation?

How on earth did Noah Schweber (whose contributions to MathOverflow I always greatly enjoy) end up with a negative year reputation for 2020?
2k views

Why have I been suspended from the ICM chat? General remarks about unwelcoming behaviour on MathOverflow

Although the below obfuscates the context which is undoubtedly relevant to what has happened, the following comments appeared to be reason enough for the moderators to ban me from the ICM chat. ...
• 968
2k views

Questions, answers, comments or discussions on aspects of politics relevant to mathematicians on MathOverflow (main or meta)

Given the recent question here on meta about the deletion of a comment stating a political opinion on an answer which also stated a political opinion which sparked a lively debate, let me bring up the ...
• 18.2k
1 vote
90 views

Why is an MO front-page question greyed out? [duplicate]

Why is symmetric monoidal double categories? on the MO front page greyed out?
• 8,059
5k views

Why was my dissenting viewpoint in a post about diversity censored?

In a question about special lectures for the ICM, the following answer proposed that a lecture on how to make the mathematical field more diverse be given. The answer contains some rather bold ...
• 968
309 views

Is it reasonable to expect that the number of upvotes is greater than the number of favorites?

Am I mistaken to think that logically the number of upvotes to a question should be greater or equal to the number of favorites? The small difference between these two numbers in this post: Examples ...
509 views

What is the best way to ask for comments on your proposed proof of some known theorem on MathOverflow?

Firstly, I apologize in advance if this post in not suitable for MO, but in my personal circumstances, I have no other place where I could post it. Suppose one is fairly convinced that they have found ...
1k views

One person creating multiple Riemann Hypothesis-related accounts

I have been flagging these posts individually, but I thought maybe a meta question would be a good follow-up, in case the moderators are not aware of the behaviour. As @YemonChoi points out, the ...
• 8,059
1 vote
392 views

Student trying to cheat in an exam

This deleted question (10k+ users only) is a student who just copied exam questions and wanted help, and admitted it in the comments to me before deleting the question. I would like this question to ...
• 31.3k
67 views

Why does Markdown not always work?

In this post, I selected text and marked it bold with two stars. But it displays for me (both in preview and after posting) like this: Is this related to the move to CommonMark as noted in the post, ...
• 145k
67 views

When are question titles auto-expanded?

Sometimes, pasting a link into the text auto-expands to the question title, and sometimes it doesn't. For example, to take a question transitively suggested by the related links: Is there an ...
• 8,059
83 views

"Voting corrected" seems incomplete

A few days ago, I was surprised to see a sudden increase in rep of 80 points in the space of a couple minutes. When looking over my profile today, I saw that I had lost 60 points, with the annotation &...
• 4,671
275 views

Reporting a possible 2nd account belonging to a network-wide suspended user

This user is suspended for 71.63 more years: A user with the same name is not suspended: Perhaps the mods can investigate their IP addresses and act accordingly (both users are basically active on ...
• 414
458 views

Downvoting systematically a user

I have got 8 downvotes in the last 2 days, on various questions and answers. Clearly someone is mad at me... Is there any way to stop that? Thanks!
• 34.7k
1k views

Why does this (old) funding proposal for MathOverflow, say that Ben Green got the Fields Medal?

This funding proposal says: But Ben's name is not mentioned here.
• 414
759 views

Richard K. Guy, the centenarian mathematician

Professor Richard K. Guy, the great number theorist had passed away long before in March. Since there were no posts to commemorate him on this site (as far as I saw), I decided to post this question ...
• 1,753
1 vote
195 views

Impact of politics on the availability of video conference software for mathematics online conferences

I'm not sure that this is the best place for this post, but on the other hand I could not think of a better forum. Of course I understand if this post must be downvoted since it doesn't strictly ...
• 791
211 views

Would asking this question be permissible on the main site?

I have been working on a problem for days, that I previously mentioned on ComScience StackExchange. The answers were helpful. But, I need more information to develop a polynomial space algorithm. I ...
• 101
1k views

Someone is trying to delete the Memorable Titles thread

There is currently a vote to delete this very old thread. I am writing to register my strong protest against this and bring it to the attention of other users here on meta. Most memorable titles
• 18.8k
67 views

Why don't images show up in a post?

Why do the image links in the post Triangle angle bisectors, trisectors, quadrisectors, show up as raw source? (I tried deleting everything but the [1] or ...
• 8,059
1 vote