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Wick-type rotations 22/04/2009 - 06:37 11 years 17 weeks ago
Why do power-type bounds arise? 23/02/2009 - 20:24 11 years 22 weeks ago
Which techniques lead to which kinds of bounds? 14/12/2008 - 18:39 11 years 18 weeks ago
Which integrals are simpler to integrate 20/04/2009 - 21:45 11 years 17 weeks ago
When exhaustive search takes too long and a greedy algorithm is not optimal, consider Dynamic Programming 11/06/2009 - 20:26 11 years 10 weeks ago
When controlling an oscillatory integral, bump functions and bounded phase corrections are not very important 02/05/2009 - 00:52 11 years 16 weeks ago
What makes some equations so much easier to solve than others? 16/12/2008 - 22:22 11 years 18 weeks ago
What kind of problem am I trying to solve? 07/12/2008 - 17:01 11 years 16 weeks ago
What can a lower bound say about potential proofs of the upper bound? 14/12/2008 - 16:26 10 years 18 weeks ago
Well known examples and categories of 3-manifolds 17/04/2009 - 21:14 10 years 18 weeks ago
Using the fact that a continuous function on a compact set attains its bounds 15/04/2009 - 00:11 11 years 19 weeks ago
Using generators and closure properties 23/01/2009 - 00:58 11 years 21 weeks ago
Useful heuristic principles for guessing probabilistic estimates 15/12/2008 - 18:27 11 years 22 weeks ago
Useful examples and counterexamples 06/12/2008 - 18:40 11 years 18 weeks ago
Use topology to study your group 28/04/2009 - 04:10 11 years 17 weeks ago
Use the implicit function theorem to prove smoothness 24/04/2009 - 23:43 11 years 15 weeks ago
Use the fact that the multiplicative group mod p is cyclic 21/01/2009 - 11:37 11 years 24 weeks ago
Use the fact that integers coprime to m have multiplicative inverses mod m 22/01/2009 - 15:38 11 years 22 weeks ago
Use the continuity method 09/05/2009 - 03:02 11 years 15 weeks ago
Use the compactness and contradiction method to derive finitary quantitative results from infinitary qualitative ones 02/05/2009 - 19:30 11 years 16 weeks ago
Use self-similarity to get a limit from an inferior or superior limit. 26/08/2010 - 12:52 10 years 20 hours ago
Use rescaling or translation to normalize parameters 21/04/2009 - 00:47 11 years 16 weeks ago
Use Occam's razor 04/05/2009 - 17:53 11 years 16 weeks ago
Use integration by parts to exploit cancellation 21/04/2009 - 17:52 10 years 18 weeks ago
Use Fourier transforms to calculate derivatives 23/04/2009 - 00:29 11 years 16 weeks ago