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Try to prove a stronger result 25/11/2011 - 01:27 10 weeks 3 days ago
Smoothing sums 06/02/2009 - 17:48 28 weeks 21 hours ago
A non-trivial circular argument can often be usefully perturbed to a non-circular one 04/05/2009 - 23:30 1 year 1 week ago
Analytic number theory front page 05/04/2009 - 09:40 1 year 23 weeks ago
Use self-similarity to get a limit from an inferior or superior limit. 26/08/2010 - 11:52 1 year 23 weeks ago
Don't start from scratch 17/12/2008 - 00:52 1 year 24 weeks ago
How to use tensor products 17/04/2009 - 23:26 1 year 25 weeks ago
To simplify a closed subset of the plane, approximate it using a grid of squares 08/05/2009 - 11:46 1 year 27 weeks ago
Insert constraints into estimates and error terms 02/04/2009 - 19:07 1 year 28 weeks ago
Geometry and topology front page 19/04/2009 - 17:40 1 year 32 weeks ago
Think axiomatically even about concrete objects 26/04/2009 - 12:55 1 year 34 weeks ago
Entropy vs. energy 25/06/2009 - 22:13 1 year 37 weeks ago
How to solve quadratic equations 16/12/2008 - 00:38 1 year 40 weeks ago
Use integration by parts to exploit cancellation 21/04/2009 - 16:52 1 year 41 weeks ago
Methods for bounding non-oscillatory integrals 23/04/2009 - 16:25 1 year 41 weeks ago
Control level sets 20/04/2009 - 23:20 1 year 41 weeks ago
Turn sets into functions 14/12/2008 - 10:55 1 year 41 weeks ago
What can a lower bound say about potential proofs of the upper bound? 14/12/2008 - 15:26 1 year 41 weeks ago
Numerical solution of partial differential equations 21/07/2009 - 20:15 1 year 41 weeks ago
Counting by partitioning 19/04/2009 - 23:22 1 year 41 weeks ago
Prove that a sequence converges by passing to a subsequence 25/04/2009 - 07:08 1 year 41 weeks ago
To compute probabilities of unions and intersections, use the inclusion-exclusion formula 12/05/2009 - 15:37 1 year 41 weeks ago
To compute the probability that exactly k of n events occur, use generalized inclusion-exclusion 12/05/2009 - 21:55 1 year 41 weeks ago
Well known examples and categories of 3-manifolds 17/04/2009 - 20:14 1 year 41 weeks ago
Prove a consequence first 21/03/2010 - 05:34 1 year 46 weeks ago