Commentary by Chris Pressey =========================== This work is distributed under a CC-BY-ND-4.0 license, with the following explicit exception: the ratings may be freely used for any purpose with no limitations. Mathematics --------------- ### The Magical Maze * rating: 3 . ### Archimedes' Revenge * rating: 1 . ### Compactness and Contradiction * rating: TODO . ### Infinity - A simple, but not too simple introduction * rating: 3 Before you do any serious thinking about mathematics you should probably try to decide what your feelings towards infinity are. ### Practice of mathematics * rating: TODO . ### Examples of common false beliefs in mathematics. - MathOverflow * rating: 1 . ### soft question - Math papers where the only issue is that someone else could\'ve done it but didn\'t - MathOverflow * rating: 1 . ### soft question - When has the scaffolding been more important than the completed building? - MathOverflow * rating: 1 . ### soft question - Big ideas that began small or small ideas that became big - MathOverflow * rating: 1 . ### reference request - Proofs of theorems that proved more or deeper results than what was first supposed or stated as the corresponding theorem - MathOverflow * rating: 1 . ### big list - Every mathematician has only a few tricks - MathOverflow * rating: 1 . ### PoincarĂ© on intuition in mathematics - MacTutor History of Mathematics * rating: classic . ### There's more to mathematics than rigour and proofs \| What\'s new * rating: 1 . ### soft question - Is an interpretation mathematics (fit for publication)? - MathOverflow * rating: 1 . ### mathematics education - Are hypergeometric series not taught often at universities nowadays, and if so, why? - MathOverflow * rating: 1 . ### calculus - Is there a reason it is so rare we can solve differential equations? - Mathematics Stack Exchange * rating: 1 . ### logic - How many words (i.e. not \"math\" symbols\") should I use in my proofs? - Mathematics Stack Exchange * rating: 1 . ### fa.functional analysis - Why do we have two theorems when one implies the other? - MathOverflow * rating: 1 . ### soft question - Theorems with many distinct proofs - MathOverflow * rating: 1 . ### \"Strange\" proofs of existence theorems - MathOverflow * rating: 1 . ### Studying mathematics * rating: TODO . ### mathematical pedagogy - Why\'s math way more puzzling, abstruse than law and medicine? - Mathematics Educators Stack Exchange * rating: 1 . ### Why there is no Hitchhiker's Guide to Mathematics for Programmers \| Math ∩ Programming * rating: 1 . ### mathematics - How can I counter a student response saying \"Why are we bothered to reinvent the wheel when proving mathematical identities?\" - Academia Stack Exchange * rating: 1 . ### secondary education - Response to Students Who Say \"This Is Not Important\" - Mathematics Educators Stack Exchange * rating: 1 . ### soft question - Daunting papers/books and how to finally read them - MathOverflow * rating: 1 . ### books - Learning mathematics in an \"independent and idiosyncratic\" way - MathOverflow * rating: 1 . ### Mathematical Rigour * rating: TODO . ### Why is writing down mathematical proofs more fault-proof than writing computer code? - Computer Science Stack Exchange * rating: 1 . ### soft question - Consequences of lack of rigour - MathOverflow * rating: 1 . ### history - Soft question: Examples where lack of mathematical rigour cause security breaches? - Cryptography Stack Exchange * rating: 1 . ### Controversy in mathematics * rating: TODO . ### research - Replication crisis in mathematics - MathOverflow * rating: 1 . ### Titans of Mathematics Clash Over Epic Proof of ABC Conjecture \| Quanta Magazine * rating: 1 . ### The ABC conjecture has (still) not been proved \| Persiflage * rating: 1 . ### Notes on the Oxford IUT workshop by Brian Conrad \| mathbabe * rating: 1 . ### ho.history overview - Endless controversy - MathOverflow * rating: 1 . ### independent researcher - Why are most cranks old men? - Academia Stack Exchange * rating: 1 . ### People * rating: TODO . ### Paul du Bois-Reymond - Wikipedia * rating: TODO . ### James Dugundji - Wikipedia * rating: TODO . ### Other * rating: TODO . ### abstract algebra - Can we define algebraic structures (group, rings, modules, fields) via their arrows? - Mathematics Stack Exchange * rating: 1 . ### algebra precalculus - If two pairs of numbers have equal sums and products, what can we conclude about the pairs? - Mathematics Stack Exchange * rating: 1 . ### Readings | Mathematics for Computer Science | Electrical Engineering and Computer Science | MIT OpenCourseWare * rating: 2 .