Steve Huntsman

Inside the Beltway

http://www.eqnets.com

My mathematically-oriented work generally explores discrete geometric and probabilistic themes in physics, computation, and communication. Jack of most trades, master of none.

I can be reached at sch213#nyu#edu (make the obvious substitutions for #).

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What are some famous rejections of correct mathematics?

soft-question big-list ho.history-overview asked Feb 3, 2010 at 0:50

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Why can't there be a general theory of nonlinear PDE?

ap.analysis-of-pdes asked Feb 14, 2010 at 23:03

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(How) is category theory actually useful in actual physics?

ct.category-theory mp.mathematical-physics asked Aug 7, 2010 at 19:51

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Why is "abelian" infrequently capitalized?

ho.history-overview asked Nov 5, 2010 at 14:01

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What is the best way to peel fruit?

mg.metric-geometry dg.differential-geometry oc.optimization-control asked May 28, 2010 at 0:59

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What are some applications of other fields to mathematics?

soft-question ho.history-overview big-list math-philosophy asked Feb 9, 2010 at 17:05

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Why isn't Montgomery modular exponentiation considered for use in quantum factoring?

cr.crypto-security quantum-computing factoring asked Nov 16, 2010 at 15:45

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Why don't existence and uniqueness for the Boltzmann equation imply the same for Navier-Stokes?

ap.analysis-of-pdes mp.mathematical-physics renormalization statistical-physics asked Mar 18, 2010 at 2:09

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16 votes

Are there any known quantum algorithms that clearly fall outside a few narrow classes?

quantum-computation mp.mathematical-physics na.numerical-analysis computational-complexity asked Jul 28, 2010 at 1:07

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Periodic orbits of Hamiltonian systems

sg.symplectic-geometry symplectic-topology periodic-orbit asked Nov 16, 2009 at 19:59

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Endless controversy about the correctness of significant papers

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When has discrete understanding preceded continuous?

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What do heat kernels have to do with the Riemann-Roch theorem and the Gauss-Bonnet theorem?

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What are the recommended books for an introductory study of elliptic curves?

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How helpful is non-standard analysis?

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How has "what every mathematician should know" changed?

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Simulating Turing machines with {O,P}DEs.

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What is the difference between matrix theory and linear algebra?

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Where does a math person go to learn statistical mechanics?

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Examples of eventual counterexamples

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When is a Banach space a Hilbert space?

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Which math paper maximizes the ratio (importance)/(length)?

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Examples of mathematics motivated by technological considerations

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What are some famous rejections of correct mathematics?

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What are some famous rejections of correct mathematics?

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Is the series $\sum_n|\sin n|^n/n$ convergent?

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What are some correct results discovered with incorrect (or no) proofs?

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Is there an introduction to probability theory from a structuralist/categorical perspective?

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Mathematical explanation of the failure to quantize gravity naively

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What is the time complexity of computing sin(x) to t bits of precision?

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Ways to prove the fundamental theorem of algebra

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Physics results in TCS?

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Statements in differential geometry independent from ZFC

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Is there a natural random process that is rigorously known to produce Zipf's law?

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What are possible applications of deep learning to research mathematics?

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Which mathematical ideas have done most to change history?

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Nontrivial theorems with trivial proofs

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Geometric or topological results from group theory

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Facts from algebraic geometry that are useful to non-algebraic geometers

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Text for an introductory Real Analysis course.

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