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How was the mathematical constant e calculated? Why is it important?

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Alon Amit, PhD in Mathematics

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How was the mathematical constant [math]e[/math] calculated? Why is it important? - Quora

The function [math]\displaystyle f(x)=1+x+\frac{x^2}{2!}+\frac{x^3}{3!}+\frac{x^4}{4!}+\ldots[/math] has been called by Rudin "the most important function in mathematics". It satisfies the simplest of differential equations: [math]f'=f[/math] ...

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6 Feb 2019, 15:00

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Is religion considered pseudoscience?

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Philipp Schober, former Student at Medical University of Vienna

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Is religion considered pseudoscience? - Quora

No, it doesn’t automatically make any testable claims about science, so it cannot be classified as a pseudoscience as a whole. But are there religious people who promote and spread pseudoscientific claims, because of their interpretation of their ...

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#math #other

Question:
Why do so many Americans insist that "anyone can learn Mathematics" when the available evidence strongly suggests otherwise?

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Jean Rafenski Reynolds. Author.

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Why do so many Americans insist that 'anyone can learn Mathematics' when the available evidence strongly suggests otherwise? - Quora

Its not just Americans who said that. (Basically upper society or educated people tend to say that) Anyway, let’s just focus on answering. Here’s why. Based on the experience I got from teaching mathematics to high school students, they are stuck ...

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4 Feb 2019, 15:00

#cs #other

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If I were a super skilled coder, how long would it take me to write the Windows 10 operating system?

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Trausti Thor Johannsson

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If I were a super skilled coder, how long would it take me to write the Windows 10 operating system? - Quora

I used to work at the R&D branch of a famous telecom equipment manufacturer, in what was at the time the second biggest computer program just after the Space Shuttle one. This one controlled a digital telephone switch, and about 20.000 developers ...

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3 Feb 2019, 15:00

#math #other

Question:
Which country has the hardest mathematics in their education curriculum?

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Manh Duc

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Which country has the hardest mathematics in their education curriculum? - Quora

Probably not the hardest, but one of the hardest. This is how math looks like in Romanian schools. * First and Second Grade * Third and Fourth Grade * Fifth Grade * Sixth Grade * Seventh Grade * Eighth Grade * Ninth Grade * Tenth Grade * Eleventh ...

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31 Jan 2019, 15:00

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Does learning chess help with learning math?

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Richard Muller, Physics Prof UC Berkeley

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Does learning chess help with learning math? - Quora

TL;DR Chess and math use similar skills and have similar patterns of thinking, so learning chess will absolutely help with learning math. I attended UC Berkely as a phD student in Statistics, and I’m currently rated 1804 USCF. So while I’m not a p...

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30 Jan 2019, 15:00

#math

Question:
What's a cool math fact you can easily tell a layman and look super cool?

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Richard Muller, Physics Prof UC Berkeley

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What's a cool math fact you can easily tell a layman and look super cool? - Quora

Few quick ones... * Notches (cuts or indentation) on animal bones prove that humans have been doing mathematics since around 30,000 BC - much before farming or formal writing. * The name 'zero' derives from the Arabic word sifr which also gave us ...

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29 Jan 2019, 15:00

#other #cs

Question:
How did the founder of Linux write 18 million lines of code alone?

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Jim Dennis

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How did the founder of Linux write 18 million lines of code alone? - Quora

During the later parts of the 1990’s and early 2000’s there was considerable contention about how Linux was created. So much so that it ended in a law suit between the then world leader in Unix, the Santa Cruz Operation who had approx. 20% of glob...

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28 Jan 2019, 15:00

#math #algebra

Question:
What are some of the counter intuitive results in high dimensions?

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Muni Sreenivas Pydi, MS Electrical Engineering

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What are some of the counter intuitive results in high dimensions? - Quora

We can't do Statistics the "good old" way because the number of samples we would need grows exponentially. The "classical" point of view in statistics is when you have a relatively low number of parameters (i.e dimensions) p and a high number of ...

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27 Jan 2019, 15:00

#other

Question:
What are some academic papers which have been turned into usable products?

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Mark Gritter, CTO at Tintri by DDN

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What are some academic papers which have been turned into usable products? - Quora

Below are some of the academic papers in computer science which have been turned into software and are in use today: 1. Matei Zaharia, Mosharaf Chowdhury, Michael J. Franklin, Scott Shenker, Ion Stoica. Spark: Cluster Computing with Working Sets. ...

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26 Jan 2019, 15:00

#other

Question:
What is the best way to read scientific papers?

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Bai Li, MSc Computer Science, University of Toronto

Answer:
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What is the best way to read scientific papers? - Quora

One skill that I’ve learned after a year in grad school is how to effectively read research papers. Previously I had found them impenetrable, but now I find them a great source of information about cutting-edge science while it is being done and b...

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25 Jan 2019, 15:00

#other #cs

Question:
What is the most dangerous C++ line of code?

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Robbie Hatley, Computer Programmer, Electronics Technican

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What is the most dangerous C++ line of code? - Quora

I think the most dangerous line of code in C++ is this: [code]Fred[8472] = 8743872; [/code]That looks harmless enough, but if Fred was defined to have, say, 8000 elements, then that line of code is going to attempt to write the integer 8743872 to ...

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24 Jan 2019, 15:00

#space #other

Question:
Why does NASA explore things billions of miles away?

Answers:
Robert Frost, works at NASA

Answer:
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Why does NASA explore things billions of miles away? - Quora

There is no formula that says that the amount we can learn from an object is inversely proportional to its distance from us. We study things that are billions of miles away because they have the potential to teach us things. A week ago, the NASA s...

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23 Jan 2019, 15:00

#other

Question:
How difficult is rocket science?

Answers:
Jack Fraser, DPhil Astrophysics, University of Oxford

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How difficult is rocket science? - Quora

I am a rocket scientist, a child of Sputnik. PhD from MIT. Chief Technical Officer of the US Space Commands, Academician of the International Academy of Astronautics and the International Institute for Space Law. I was also chairman of internation...

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22 Jan 2019, 15:00

#other

Question:
In the next 100 years, is China likely to become the world leader in scientific research?

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Kai-Fu Lee, CEO, 创新工场; fmr Pres., Google China

Answer:
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In the next 100 years, is China likely to become the world leader in scientific research? - Quora

I had most of my education and did 5 years of research and teaching in academia in China. I have done research and invention, publications and products for 20+ years since then in North America. In the last decade I have occasionally visited China...

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21 Jan 2019, 15:00

#algebra #math

Question:
Why is linear algebra called "linear"?

Answers:
Lors Soren

Answer:
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Why is linear algebra called 'linear'? - Quora

This is a great question because the word “linear” is confusing and also fundamental—-not just because linear algebra is a well-understood subject to which mathematicians try to reduce other** problems, but because the notion of a morphism that pr...

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20 Jan 2019, 15:00

#space #other

Question:
How can it be understood that the universe is 93 billion light years across and yet only 13.8 billion years old?

Answers:
Frank Heile, Ph.D. in Physics from Stanford University

Answer:
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How can it be understood that the universe is 93 billion light years across and yet only 13.8 billion years old? - Quora

The reason for the difference is that, first of all, 13.8 billion light years is essentially the radius of a sphere of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) radiation that is being observed by the WMAP and Planck satellites. Therefore the diameter...

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19 Jan 2019, 15:00

#other

Question:
What are some of the worst academic papers ever published?

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Tijmen Herdink, B.A. Biomedical Science

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18 Jan 2019, 15:00

#other

Question:
Is it true that the computers they use at NASA are 30-40 years ahead of consumer computers that the public uses?

Answers:
Robert Mudry, former NASA contractor

Answer:
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Is it true that the computers they use at NASA are 30-40 years ahead of consumer computers that the public uses? - Quora

In 1985, as a distributed OS developer at Ames, I had my own Silicon Graphics Iris workstation, a DEC Vax 11/780 at my disposal and access to an Amdahl mainframe and a Cray 2 supercomputer. The equivalent capability become affordable in desktop co...

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