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Display of differences between revisions
Being impressed by the visualisation of differences between revisions on this site (and MSE as well) I cannot resist to ask: what javascript libraries are used for this? I know that MathJax is used to ...
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Problem with "move to chat" function?
I seem to be having a problem with the "move to chat" button. In a recent question, I received the "consider moving to chat" prompt, and I clicked the proffered button; however, it didn't work. ...
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What do you see to upvote an answer?
Question is as in the title?
What makes you to up vote an answer?
Most of my answers are with $0$ upvotes. I am trying to understand the reason. One of the reasons could be that mathematics that I ...
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Area 51 Proposal: Math Challenges
On September 1st, I started a proposal on Area 51, for users to share, discuss and answer mathematical challenges that they have. I did this because I felt that these types of problems have no place ...
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Ability to flag for migration to other stackoverflow sites
Currently on mathoverflow, flags can be set for questions to be migrated to meta.mathoverflow, math.stackexchange, and stats.stackexchange. However, there are often questions that belong on other ...
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Is MathOverflow missing a tag for ODEs?
TL;DR: Is there a tag which is intended (only) for ordinary differential equations? If not, should there be one?
The situation with the tags related to ODEs seems a bit unclear to me. AFAICT there is ...
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Recommending to move the question to another site
I am trying to recommend to move the question to another SE site.
When I press the corresponding button, the menu pops up which offers me choices:
meta, MathSE, stats. And no more choices. How can I ...
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Synonym by a moderator which needs approval?
When I look at list of tag synonyms I see there a pending synonym rsk-correspondence $\to$ robinson-schensted-knuth and François G. Dorais♦ is listed as the creator. You can also see that this synonym ...
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Does it make sense to have both "surfaces" and "curves-and-surfaces" tags?
I have noticed that there currently exist tags surfaces (with description "A surface is a two-dimensional topological manifold. The term can also be used to describe a smooth surface, depending on the ...
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Accepting an answer to a closed question
To my surprise I discovered that I can accept an answer to my question that has been closed.
I am not sure whether it is "good" or "bad", my question is whether it is an intended feature and if yes, ...
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Tagging Answers?
Simple question: should the tagging of a question cover answers?
Suppose I asked a question about a mathematical problem and in the answers contained for example:
pointers to literature
algorithms
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What should I do if I want to ask an almost duplicate question?
There already exists a question very like the one I want to ask, with a very partial answer by the OP. I want to ask the same question but restricted to a special case, for which I hope more can be ...
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Doubled backslashes in old posts [duplicate]
There is a post from 2013 addressing what appears to be a similar issue, but it is reported as fixed, so I guess it's not exactly the same.
I have noticed a few posts recently in which backslashes ...
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Can someone please help me login to my account
I'm so sorry, but I got logged out of my account:
https://mathoverflow.net/users/10290/erin-carmody
I tried to log back in but have changed my email several times... It might be an impossible task. ...
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Why was this question made community wiki?
Yesterday I asked a question seeking published references studying popular games, to start building up an undergraduate research program. Today I woke up to find it had been made community wiki. Now, ...
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Migration site list lacks entries
The question What is the integral of temperature over space called? obviously belongs elsewhere. Most probably the proper place is physics.SE, but in any case not here on meta, not on math.SE, and not ...
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Should I accept an answer to the "concrete" part of my question and ask another one about the "vague part"?
Suppose I am trying to prove a certain statement $S$ and find that a certain plausible statement $T$ implies $S$. However, I don't think that they are equivalent, and so there are possibly other ...
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Can one un-(vote to close) a question without voting to reopen?
Scenario (and it actually happened): I was first to vote to close a question as too broad; OP modified the question in such way that my objection did not apply anymore; this modification resulted in ...
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Why do we need the general-mathematics tag?
I recently came across the general-mathematics tag. It has no usage guidelines, nor do I think it should exist. Do any of you know the historic reasons for its existence, or think it should stay as it ...
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Is this combinatorial semigroup theory question suitable for MO?
The question is here.
For convenience:
Let $S=M_n(\mathbb{Z}_2)$. Let $D^{(n)}_2$ be the matrices in the rank $2$ $\mathcal{D}$-class of $S$. Find
$$N_n=\left\lvert\left\{\begin{array}
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Formatting: Diacritics outside of Formulas
I recently tried to write the name of the French mathematician Gâteaux in the correct way, i.e. with a circumflex over the first 'a'.
Using MathJax formatting inside inline math or in formula, that ...
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Locating a question on zero-one vectors in the kernel of a matrix
I remember there was a question posted to MO about maybe two months ago or so which was, essentially, about the existence of zero-one vectors in the kernel of some matrix. Can anybody help me to ...
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The tags (transcendence) and (transcendental-number-theory)
There exist tags transcendence and transcend.-number-theory (probably shortened from transcendental number theory to fit 25 characters limit for the tag name). At the moment, the tag-info is empty ...
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How to Ask Multiple Very Specific Questions About New Applications of an Old Theorem
This question is a different flavor of this one, the difference being, that I am not looking for help in understanding something.
My "problem" is, that while ramping up my knowledge about the ...
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How to ask a question on an accepted answer?
I had asked a question about 6 months ago and I had got an answer to the problem. Now, I have some questions on that problem. Can I leave comments for my questions there?
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Migration of questions to cs.SE?
This question just got closed as off-topic. As someone else had already commented there, it is really a computer-science question and thus clearly belongs at cs.stackexchange.com. But we currently don'...
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Delete the tag paperjs [duplicate]
How can we delete a tag, for example the tag paperjs? I tried to go the page for paperjs, but I didn't see a suitable option.
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Troubles with math preview: preview of formulas dies on me when writing a question or an answer
In mathoverflow I avoid asking questions and giving answers because the preview of mathematical formulas does not work: in the preview the formulas are shown precisely as I type them, with dollars and ...
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Can I ask a question here whose answer I did not get at math.stackexchange?
I have asked a question about solution of heat equation at math.stackexchange but no one answered. I think may be the question is too professional to be asked from learners. As this platform is for ...
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Are we ready for a MathOverflow Overlay?
As varied as my participation in MathOverflow has been, I seem to gravitate towards number-theoretic issues involving $\phi$ and $\sigma$. I am considering writing an overlay article. This would be ...
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Algebraic Geometry Chat Room
At the request of Denis Nardin, I have started an MO algebraic geometry chat room at http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/23540/algebraic-geometry. For now I am the room owner, but I am happy to let ...
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Why is this still 'unclear'? [closed]
I recently asked a question that was subsequently put 'on hold' for being 'unclear'. I then edited it pretty drastically, and as far as I can tell there is nothing really unclear about the new version,...
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Risqué and uninformative title.
I found the previous title of
Realizing proper pure octonions as conjugates
slightly risqué and also uninformative. So in the spirit of being bold I just changed it to something mathematical. I'...
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Same email ID, multiple mathoverflow,net IDs
I had an ID on mathoverflow, stackexchange, which changed without my knowing. I used the anonymous way to answer/question, ie with just my email ID. So now I have two user IDs with the same email ...
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Log in problem on MO
I am unable to log in, unfortunately. After I click log in on top there appears a bubble on top of the page saying "Welcome back Frode Bjørdal, You are logged in, You are being redirected", and then I ...
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Why not restoring the + 10 reputation for questions but make each negative vote also count -10 reputation?
To maintain MO alive and well, we need a regular flow of good questions, and not too many bad questions. It seems to me that one has given more weight to the latter, forgetting the former which in my ...
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Reference Requests: Good Ways and Bad Ways
I would like to know of types of bad examples of MathOverflow questions that are tantamount to reference requests. I can think of two:
a) A reference request for something that is properly outside ...
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Preferred Conciseness of Contributions
This is a followup question to Appropriate Reaction to a Failed Reference Request on MO related to Reference Request for Integer factorization with LP/ILP
I'm about to prepare an answer that ...
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Is it appropriate to ask for references and point to a blog with the same question
I wonder if the community would find it appropriate if I ask a question like
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Is this or that known? It would be interesting for this and that reason. For details see our blog "blah" where we ask ...
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soft-question tag for discussing mathematical best-practices
I asked a question about where people could store slides for future reference. As a discussion of best-practices in the Mathematical profession, I thought it was appropriate for the soft-question tag ...
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How to merge old mathoverflow account?
I know that this question has been asked and answered here: How can I log in into my old mathoverflow account? I have e-mailed the stackoverflow admins twice, but nothing has happened for 48h now. ...
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Too large font in the question names
Previously much more questions could fit one page in the question list. Currently the font is giant and the information is much less dense.
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A trivia question: reputation dip [duplicate]
Why did my reputation decrease by 300+ points right after the system up-grading?
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Old account login issue [duplicate]
Here is a link to my old account, to which I used to log on using google:
https://mathoverflow.net/users/18263/vidit-nanda
When I try to log in with the same google account, I get "user35394" ...
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Is it a problem if I post a lot of questions?
The fuel of MO is the research level questions in mathematics.
In most (regular) users' summary I look, there are much more answers than questions, as if the opposite position would be doubtful ...
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Downvoted on many questions asked in less than 60 seconds
I'm not sure why but it seems I've been targeted been down voting (I think by the same user) as it happened in all the questions I've asked in less than 60 seconds. I do not think this is due to the ...
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How to deal with answers that don't answer anything?
I'm really hesitant to put this on the table, but what should be done with answers that to do not contain anything of help related to the question?
Specifically I refer to this.
It is not the fact of ...
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Name of the site
This site keeps getting questions from users who have mistaken mathoverflow for a place to ask questions about elementary mathematics. This is not a problem for me, as those too-elementary questions ...
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Using other alphabets/writing sytems for author names
The following question
Fractional-order Rellich–Kondrashov Theorem
uses the Cyrillic alphabet to write "Kondrachov", and I wanted to know what was the policy of the website concerning this vaguely "...
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Is there bias in the parity of MO reputation (or similar random parameter)?
Background:
Possibly wrong experiments with the bias of the parity of reputation
based on 2012-11 MO dumps show there might be some bias:
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