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An aesthetic term referring to the ability of an idea to provide insight into mathematics, whether by unifying disparate fields, introducing a new perspective on a single field, or by providing a technique of proof which is either particularly simple, or which captures the intuition or imagination as
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A rhetorical shortcut made by authors who invite the reader to verify, at a glance, the correctness of a proposed expression or deduction. If an expression can be evaluated by straightforward application of simple techniques and without recourse to extended calculation or general theory, then it can
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In a context not requiring rigor, this phrase often appears as a labor-saving device when the technical details of a complete argument would outweigh the conceptual benefits. The author gives a proof in a simple enough case that the computations are reasonable, and then indicates that "in general"
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to a new level of abstraction...if certain mathematicians could console themselves for a time with the hope that all these complicated structures were 'abstract nonsense'...the later papers of Grothendieck and others showed that classical problems...which had resisted efforts of several generations
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of a random variable is said to be finite, this implies it is a non-negative real number, possibly zero. In some contexts though, for example in "a small but finite amplitude", zero and infinitesimals are meant to be excluded. When said of the value of a variable assuming values from the extended
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A result is called "folklore" if it is non-obvious and non-published, yet generally known to the specialists within a field. In many scenarios, it is unclear as to who first obtained the result, though if the result is significant, it may eventually find its way into the textbooks, whereupon it
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The beauty of a mathematical theory is independent of the aesthetic qualities...of the theory's rigorous expositions. Some beautiful theories may never be given a presentation which matches their beauty....Instances can also be found of mediocre theories of questionable beauty which are given
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can be more easily proved with additional assumptions on the objects it concerns. If the proposition as stated follows from this modified one with a simple and minimal explanation (for example, if the remaining special cases are identical but for notation), then the modified assumptions are
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Rather than finding underlying principles or patterns, this is a method where one would evaluate as many cases as needed to sufficiently prove or provide convincing evidence that the thing in question is true. Sometimes this involves evaluating every possible case (where it is also known as
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Although ultimately every mathematical argument must meet a high standard of precision, mathematicians use descriptive but informal statements to discuss recurring themes or concepts with unwieldy formal statements. Note that many of the terms are completely rigorous in context.
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Mathematicians may say that a theorem is beautiful when they really mean to say that it is enlightening. We acknowledge a theorem's beauty when we see how the theorem 'fits' in its place....We say that a proof is beautiful when such a proof finally gives away the secret of the
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which seem to try to resemble as little as possible the honest functions which serve some purpose....Nay more, from the logical point of view, it is these strange functions which are the most general....to-day they are invented expressly to put at fault the reasonings of our
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brilliant, exciting expositions.... is rich in beautiful and insightful definitions and poor in elegant proofs.... remain clumsy and dull.... vied for one another in elegance of presentation and in cleverness of proof....In retrospect, one wonders what all the fuss was about.
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a theorem, the use of this expression in the statement of the theorem indicates that the conditions involved may be not yet known to the speaker, and that the intent is to collect the conditions that will be found to be needed in order for the proof of the theorem to go
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Many of the results mentioned in this paper should be considered "folklore" in that they merely formally state ideas that are well-known to researchers in the area, but may not be obvious to beginners and to the best of my knowledge do not appear elsewhere in
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meeting stronger conditions. When used in this way, the stronger notion (such as "strong antichain") is a technical term with a precisely defined meaning; the nature of the extra conditions cannot be derived from the definition of the weaker notion (such as
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took on an enormous importance...as giving an incentive for the creation of new types of function whose properties departed completely from what intuitively seemed admissible. A celebrated example of such a so-called 'pathological' function...is
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The act of establishing a mathematical result using indisputable logic, rather than informal descriptive argument. Rigor is a cornerstone quality of mathematics, and can play an important role in preventing mathematics from degenerating into
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It is often the case that two objects are shown to be equivalent in some way, and that one of them is endowed with additional structure. Using the equivalence, we may define such a structure on the second object as well, via
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An obsolescent term which is used to announce to the reader an alternative method, or proof of a result. In a proof, it therefore flags a piece of reasoning that is superfluous from a logical point of view, but has some other
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In a descriptive context, this phrase introduces a simple characterization of a broad class of objects, with an eye towards identifying a unifying principle. This term introduces an "elegant" description which holds for
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A non-technique of proof mostly employed in lectures, where formal argument is not strictly necessary. It proceeds by omission of details or even significant ingredients, and is merely a plausibility argument.
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arguments when passing from the base case to the induction step, and similarly, in the definition of sequences whose first few terms are exhibited as examples of the formula giving every term of the sequence.
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in a category. Depending on authors, the term "maps" or the term "functions" may be reserved for specific kinds of functions or morphisms (e.g., function as an analytic term and map as a general term).
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found out in 1931, differentiable functions are colloquially speaking a rare exception among the continuous ones. Thus it can hardly be defended any-more to call non-differentiable continuous functions
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is algebraically closed if and only if it has no finite extensions". Often used in lists, as in "The following conditions are necessary and sufficient for a field to be algebraically closed...".
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Usually applied to a claim within a larger proof when the proof of that claim can be produced routinely by any member of the audience with the necessary expertise, but is not so simple as to be
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having a property to mean "all except finitely many", despite the integers not admitting a measure for which this agrees with the previous usage. For example, "almost all prime numbers are
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Accurately and precisely described or specified. For example, sometimes a definition relies on a choice of some object; the result of the definition must then be independent of this choice.
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A term which shortcuts around calculation the mathematician perceives to be tedious or routine, accessible to any member of the audience with the necessary expertise in the field;
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In the context of limits, these terms refer to some (unspecified, even unknown) point at which a phenomenon prevails as the limit is approached. A statement such as that predicate
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if it satisfies satisfactory continuity and differentiability properties, which are often context-dependent. These properties might include possessing a specified number of
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is an argument whereby a statement is not proved but instead illustrated by an example. If done well, the specific example would easily generalize to a general proof.
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An informal computation omitting much rigor without sacrificing correctness. Often this computation is "proof of concept" and treats only an accessible special case.
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Style of proof where claims believed by the author to be easily verifiable are labelled as 'obvious' or 'trivial', which often results in the reader being confused.
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set is true generically; however, it is usually not said that a property which holds merely on a dense set (which is not Zariski open) is generic in this situation.
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For proofs involving objects with multiple indices which can be solved by going to the bottom (if anyone wishes to take up the effort). Similar to diagram chasing.
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if it satisfies hypotheses or properties, sometimes unspecified or even unknown, that are especially desirable in a given context. It is an informal antonym for
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way) if it either fails to conform to the generic behavior of such objects, fails to satisfy certain context-dependent regularity properties, or simply disobeys
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The word fundamental is used to describe a theorem with a given area of mathematics considered to be the most central theorem of that particular area (e.g.
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A result is called "deep" if its proof requires concepts and methods that are advanced beyond the concepts needed to formulate the result. For example, the
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is a map or morphism between objects that arises naturally from the definition or the construction of the objects being mapped against each other.
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A condition on objects in the scope of the discussion, to be specified later, that will guarantee that some stated property holds for them. When
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a condition if the establishment of that condition is the only impediment to the truth of the statement. Also used when working with members of
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arguments or precise ideas. Much of this uses common English words, but with a specific non-obvious meaning when used in a mathematical sense.
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than another one if a proof of the second can be easily obtained from the first but not conversely. An example is the sequence of theorems:
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Mathematicians have several phrases to describe proofs or proof techniques. These are often used as hints for filling in tedious details.
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Often, a mathematical theorem will establish constraints on the behavior of some object; for example, a function will be shown to have an
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A proof or a result is called "elementary" if it only involves basic concepts and methods in the field, and is to be contrasted with
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the meaning is simply "not infinite". When said of a set or a mathematical object whose main component is a set, it means that the
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such that the restriction of the function to the neighbourhood can be considered as a set of functions from the neighbourhood to
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Proofs sometimes proceed by enumerating several conditions whose satisfaction will together imply the desired theorem; thus, one
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is a concept which mathematics has endowed with many meanings, from simple differentiability to infinite differentiability to
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results which require more development within or outside the field. The concept of "elementary proof" is used specifically in
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of an object or a space is a property or number of the object or a space that remains unchanged under some transformations.
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Similar to "canonical" but more specific, and which makes reference to a description (almost exclusively in the context of
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on an object is an additional set of objects or data attached to the object (e.g., relation, operation, metric, topology).
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is, roughly, a map from some space or object to another that omits some information on the object or space. For example,
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to why the result it proves is true. In some occasions, the term "beautiful" can also be used to the same effect, though
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is a set of ordered pairs; an element x is said to be related to another element y if and only if (x,y) are in the set.
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draws repeatedly from a small pool of ideas, many of which are invoked through various lexical shorthands in practice.
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ought to satisfy a certain boundedness condition "for nice test functions," or one might state that some interesting
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There are two canonical proofs that are always used to show non-mathematicians what a mathematical proof is like:
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Used to describe a geometrical proof that involves finding relationships between the various angles in a diagram.
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A descriptive term referring to notation in which two objects are written one above the other; the upper one is
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is onto" (i. e. surjective). Not translatable (without circumlocutions) to some languages other than English.
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If, for some notion of substructure, objects are substructures of themselves (that is, the relationship is
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of objects and morphisms between them, if one wishes to prove some property of the morphisms (such as
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is a projection and its restriction to a graph of a function, say, is also a projection. The terms “
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before the proof can be established — even though the claim itself can be stated in terms of simple
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and if we fix a particular isomorphism, then we may define an inner product on the other space by
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Norbert A'Campo of the University of Basel once asked Grothendieck about something related to the
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satisfies some (context-dependent) notion of smallness. For example, a property which holds on a
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by inspection is to 'notice' them, or mentally check them. 'By inspection' can play a kind of
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which sum to π radians, a single straight line conforms to this definition pathologically.
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A function (which in mathematics is generally defined as mapping the elements of one set
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Qualifies anything that is sufficiently precise to be translated straightforwardly in a
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is satisfied by arbitrarily large values, can be expressed in more formal notation by
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if it deduces restrictive results from general hypotheses. One celebrated example is
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A term regarding statements. If a statement holds false, then it is said to exhibit
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holds for sufficiently large values, can be expressed in more formal notation by ∃
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of talented mathematicians, could be solved in terms of...complicated concepts.
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of an object; the object exists, and furthermore, no other such object exists.
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need to show (NTS), required to prove (RTP), wish to show, want to show (WTS)
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to a known statement, or is a simple special case of a more general concept.
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Some phrases, like "in general", appear below in more than one section.
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An object behaves pathologically (or, somewhat more broadly used, in a
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that are integer multiples of π." This can also apply to limits: see
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Note for that latter quote that as the differentiable functions are
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Collection of commonly used phrases found in mathematical fields
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for this last algebra. By transport of structure, we obtain a
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or proofs are beautiful but may be written about inelegantly.
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is compact if and only if it is bounded? This is chicanery!"
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role: the answer or solution simply clicks into place.
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requires the objects to be different. For example, a
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In the context of limits, this is shorthand meaning
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(ed.), 1496:has a finite (resp. countable) open subcover. 1276:A mathematical object is colloquially called 967:{\displaystyle \mathbb {N} \cup \{\infty \},} 539:Notions which arise mostly in the context of 190:were found. On the other hand, the fact that 186:— was once thought to be a deep result until 8: 3188:, Oxford science publications, p. 119, 1440:are not to be confused with the notion of a 958: 952: 916: 910: 2133: 1288:. For example, one might conjecture that a 1131:, one says that a property of points on an 294: 107: 2782:. In other words, it is a special kind of 1986:be a finite-dimensional vector space over 1436:, below. 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Cambridge University Press. 3109:List of mathematical constants 3050: 3047: 3035: 3024: 2978:, there is a neighbourhood of 2732: 2715: 2709: 2697: 2605: 2587: 2564: 1811:of the statement to be proved. 1515: 1444:, which is rigorously defined. 1402:word is also non-jargon for a 1147: 1044: 1034: 801:{\displaystyle h\colon B\to C} 792: 769:{\displaystyle g\colon A\to B} 760: 705:{\displaystyle f\colon A\to C} 696: 575:. The statement that quantity 312:"What do you mean a subset of 293:Russell Impagliazzo ( 106:Michael Monastyrsky ( 1: 3522:(1991), Kandall, G.A. (ed.), 3422:Monastyrsky, Michael (2001), 1969:; if one of them is given an 1800:(BWOC), or "for, if not, ..." 66:generalized abstract nonsense 3532:Wiedijk, Freek, ed. (2006), 3114:List of mathematical symbols 2826:, there is a unique element 2316: 2230:clearly, can be easily shown 2061:to the localized algebra Sym 1803:The rhetorical prelude to a 1345:; it may even be said that " 661:referring to composition of 327:{\displaystyle \mathbb {R} } 129:is the "canonical proof" of 82:Saunders Mac Lane ( 3563:Encyclopedia of Mathematics 2132:Igor Shafarevich ( 1020:and its relatives; as with 999:{\displaystyle \aleph _{0}} 3600: 3470:The Foundations of Science 3362:Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 3233:Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 2873: 1518:non-negative real numbers 1359:), then the qualification 737:{\displaystyle f=h\circ g} 246:Gian-Carlo Rota ( 3584:Glossaries of mathematics 3211:), for example on p. 100. 2690:subject to the condition 2683:{\displaystyle A\times B} 2664:of the Cartesian product 2478:{\displaystyle A\times B} 1442:regular topological space 474:Descriptive informalities 416:J. Sousa Pinto ( 388:Henri PoincarĂ© ( 262: 62:general abstract nonsense 42:Philosophy of mathematics 3579:Mathematical terminology 3526:, vol. IV, Springer 3355:"The PNAS way back then" 2573:{\displaystyle f:A\to B} 1957:. For example, any two 1921:Halmos end-of-proof mark 1905:existence and uniqueness 1866:". For example, "For a 1838:necessary and sufficient 1567:A theorem is said to be 1168:Allyn Jackson ( 1056:{\displaystyle (-1)^{n}} 978:of the set is less than 221:elegance of presentation 165:Freek Wiedijk ( 150:—The proof of the 131:the infinitude of primes 3496:10.1023/A:1004930722234 3383:10.1073/pnas.94.12.5983 3303:10.1109/SCT.1995.514853 2866:that corresponds to it. 2786:where given an element 2611:{\displaystyle (A,B,f)} 2511:used in the definition. 1917:Quod erat demonstrandum 1798:by way of contradiction 1782:The formal language of 1715:. A statement is true 1581:Fermat's little theorem 1394:that is different from 1375:that is different from 1313:to elements of another 21:language of mathematics 3254:10.1073/pnas.28.12.537 3159:Boyd, Stephen (2004). 3091:mathematical structure 3060: 2860: 2840: 2820: 2800: 2776: 2745: 2684: 2658: 2638: 2612: 2574: 2505: 2479: 2453: 2433: 2139: 2109:linear algebraic group 1955:transport of structure 1948:transport of structure 1895:just these statements. 1805:proof by contradiction 1679:, with the base space 1613:strongly regular graph 1260: 1234: 1214: 1175: 1135:that holds on a dense 1057: 1000: 968: 926: 870: 850: 830: 802: 770: 738: 706: 510:algebraic real numbers 423: 395: 363:mathematical intuition 328: 300: 282:ceases to be folklore. 253: 219:distinguished between 172: 113: 89: 3431:Can. Math. Soc. Notes 3061: 2861: 2841: 2821: 2801: 2777: 2746: 2685: 2659: 2639: 2613: 2580:is an ordered triple 2575: 2506: 2480: 2454: 2434: 2302:the proof is similar. 1671:. For example, in a 1506:. The constraint is 1412:A function is called 1294:topological invariant 1290:differential operator 1261: 1235: 1215: 1213:{\displaystyle x=y+1} 1063:is frequently in the 1058: 1001: 969: 927: 871: 851: 831: 803: 771: 739: 707: 403:....This function is 329: 3287:, pp. 134–147, 3281:Impagliazzo, Russell 3009: 2952:multivalued function 2850: 2830: 2810: 2790: 2775:{\displaystyle b=b'} 2755: 2694: 2668: 2648: 2622: 2584: 2552: 2528:mathematical diagram 2489: 2463: 2443: 2423: 1875:algebraically closed 1820:An abbreviation for 1729:equivalence relation 1708:, modulo, mod out by 1660:upstairs, downstairs 1524:exponential function 1504:upper or lower bound 1244: 1224: 1192: 1031: 983: 941: 889: 860: 840: 820: 780: 748: 716: 684: 620:universal quantifier 618:A shorthand for the 316: 180:prime number theorem 3374:1997PNAS...94.5983M 3245:1942PNAS...28..537E 3186:Elementary Geometry 3161:Convex Optimization 3146:Columbia University 3068:idempotent operator 2962:is a function from 2637:{\displaystyle A,B} 2618:consisting of sets 2504:{\displaystyle A,B} 2269:commutative diagram 2252:complete intuition 2186:proof by exhaustion 2094: ⊗  2071: ⊗  2053: ⊗  1903:A statement of the 1822:logical equivalence 1737:natural isomorphism 1721:equivalence classes 1573:Donaldson's theorem 1259:{\displaystyle y+1} 496:", when there is a 123:mathematical object 3524:Algebraic Geometry 3410:Mac Lane, Saunders 3351:Mac Lane, Saunders 3229:Mac Lane, Saunders 3184:Roe, John (1993), 3137:Goldfeld, Dorian. 3056: 2966:to the subsets of 2926:between sets or a 2856: 2836: 2816: 2796: 2772: 2741: 2680: 2654: 2634: 2608: 2570: 2501: 2475: 2449: 2429: 2257:complete induction 2211:quadratic equation 2020:polynomial algebra 1923:, a square sign ∎. 1755:Vanish at infinity 1713:modular arithmetic 1624:sufficiently large 1589:Lagrange's theorem 1537:quadratic function 1256: 1230: 1210: 1129:algebraic geometry 1123:of countably many 1053: 996: 964: 922: 866: 846: 826: 798: 766: 734: 702: 644:sufficiently large 324: 156:square root of two 98:algebraic geometry 3547:978-3-540-30704-4 3520:Shafarevich, Igor 3456:978-1-898563-99-0 3368:(12): 5983–5985, 3312:978-0-8186-7052-7 3225:Eilenberg, Samuel 3195:978-0-19-853456-3 2859:{\displaystyle B} 2839:{\displaystyle b} 2819:{\displaystyle A} 2799:{\displaystyle a} 2657:{\displaystyle f} 2452:{\displaystyle B} 2432:{\displaystyle A} 2085: = det( 1975:factoring through 1926:sufficiently nice 1778:Proof terminology 1733:monoidal category 1430:Hölder continuity 1341:") only if it is 1282:sufficiently nice 1233:{\displaystyle x} 1133:algebraic variety 1087:formal definition 1081:. For example. a 1016:arbitrarily large 869:{\displaystyle h} 849:{\displaystyle g} 829:{\displaystyle B} 816:any (and all) of 535:arbitrarily large 225:beauty of concept 188:elementary proofs 48:abstract nonsense 3591: 3550: 3539: 3527: 3514: 3480:Rota, Gian-Carlo 3474: 3459: 3438: 3428: 3417: 3404: 3395: 3385: 3359: 3337: 3323: 3296: 3275: 3266: 3256: 3212: 3205: 3199: 3198: 3181: 3175: 3174: 3156: 3150: 3149: 3143: 3134: 3065: 3063: 3062: 3057: 3031: 3023: 3022: 3017: 2985: 2981: 2977: 2973: 2969: 2965: 2961: 2957: 2922:A synonym for a 2865: 2863: 2862: 2857: 2845: 2843: 2842: 2837: 2825: 2823: 2822: 2817: 2805: 2803: 2802: 2797: 2781: 2779: 2778: 2773: 2771: 2750: 2748: 2747: 2742: 2731: 2689: 2687: 2686: 2681: 2663: 2661: 2660: 2655: 2643: 2641: 2640: 2635: 2617: 2615: 2614: 2609: 2579: 2577: 2576: 2571: 2510: 2508: 2507: 2502: 2484: 2482: 2481: 2476: 2458: 2456: 2455: 2450: 2438: 2436: 2435: 2430: 2403:2.  A 2396:1.  A 2196:proof by example 2158:Proof techniques 2137: 2118:) isomorphic to 1977:the isomorphism. 1899:one and only one 1879:field extensions 1807:, preceding the 1763:The converse of 1723:, especially in 1605:strong antichain 1564:strong, stronger 1428:above), such as 1390:is a divisor of 1367:subset of a set 1265: 1263: 1262: 1257: 1239: 1237: 1236: 1231: 1219: 1217: 1216: 1211: 1173: 1074:formal, formally 1062: 1060: 1059: 1054: 1052: 1051: 1005: 1003: 1002: 997: 995: 994: 973: 971: 970: 965: 948: 937:natural numbers 931: 929: 928: 923: 906: 905: 897: 875: 873: 872: 867: 855: 853: 852: 847: 835: 833: 832: 827: 807: 805: 804: 799: 775: 773: 772: 767: 743: 741: 740: 735: 711: 709: 708: 703: 665:. If for three 609: 570: 421: 393: 333: 331: 330: 325: 323: 298: 271:complex analysis 251: 184:complex analysis 170: 111: 87: 3599: 3598: 3594: 3593: 3592: 3590: 3589: 3588: 3569: 3568: 3558: 3548: 3531: 3518: 3478: 3465:Poincare, Henri 3463: 3457: 3442: 3426: 3421: 3408: 3357: 3349: 3327: 3313: 3294:10.1.1.678.8930 3279: 3239:(12): 537–543, 3223: 3220: 3215: 3206: 3202: 3196: 3183: 3182: 3178: 3171: 3158: 3157: 3153: 3141: 3136: 3135: 3131: 3127: 3100: 3086: 3081: 3012: 3007: 3006: 2998: 2993: 2983: 2979: 2975: 2971: 2967: 2963: 2959: 2955: 2947: 2935: 2919: 2914: 2900: 2895: 2878: 2871: 2848: 2847: 2828: 2827: 2808: 2807: 2788: 2787: 2764: 2753: 2752: 2724: 2692: 2691: 2666: 2665: 2646: 2645: 2620: 2619: 2582: 2581: 2550: 2549: 2542: 2537: 2523: 2518: 2487: 2486: 2461: 2460: 2441: 2440: 2421: 2420: 2412: 2393: 2388: 2379:binary relation 2374: 2369: 2353: 2263:diagram chasing 2223:by intimidation 2160: 2138: 2131: 2126: 2102: 2093: 2080: 2066: 2048: 2038: 2009: 1998: 1942:normal subgroup 1780: 1725:category theory 1667:and the lower, 1585:Euler's theorem 1480:. For example, 1404:proper morphism 1371:is a subset of 1325:" (instead of " 1242: 1241: 1240:on the LHS and 1222: 1221: 1190: 1189: 1188:; for example, 1174: 1172:, p.1197) 1167: 1161:Platonic solids 1118: 1043: 1029: 1028: 986: 981: 980: 939: 938: 892: 887: 886: 858: 857: 838: 837: 818: 817: 778: 777: 746: 745: 714: 713: 682: 681: 659:category theory 588: 583:) depending on 548: 476: 422: 415: 394: 387: 347:transformations 314: 313: 299: 292: 252: 245: 239: 238: 217:Gian-Carlo Rota 171: 164: 161: 112: 105: 88: 81: 58:category theory 54:tongue-in-cheek 44: 17: 12: 11: 5: 3597: 3595: 3587: 3586: 3581: 3571: 3570: 3567: 3566: 3557: 3554: 3553: 3552: 3546: 3540:, BirkhĂ€user, 3529: 3516: 3490:(2): 171–182, 3476: 3461: 3455: 3440: 3419: 3406: 3347: 3325: 3311: 3277: 3219: 3216: 3214: 3213: 3200: 3194: 3176: 3170:978-0521833783 3169: 3151: 3128: 3126: 3123: 3122: 3121: 3116: 3111: 3106: 3099: 3096: 3095: 3094: 3087: 3084: 3080: 3077: 3076: 3075: 3055: 3052: 3049: 3046: 3043: 3040: 3037: 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2098: 2089: 2076: 2062: 2044: 2025: 2000: 1994: 1979: 1978: 1950: 1945: 1938: 1935: 1927: 1924: 1913: 1908: 1901: 1896: 1889: 1886: 1840: 1835: 1828: 1825: 1824:of statements. 1818: 1815:if and only if 1812: 1801: 1795: 1791: 1779: 1776: 1775: 1774: 1771: 1768: 1761: 1758: 1743: 1740: 1709: 1703: 1661: 1658: 1627: 1621: 1599:or the adverb 1565: 1562: 1552: 1547: 1500: 1497: 1473:and also that 1466:)" means that 1448: 1445: 1424:property (see 1410: 1407: 1353: 1350: 1307: 1304: 1274: 1271: 1255: 1252: 1249: 1229: 1209: 1206: 1203: 1200: 1197: 1182: 1165: 1156: 1155: 1143: 1140: 1116: 1103:measure theory 1095: 1090: 1075: 1072: 1050: 1046: 1042: 1039: 1036: 1011: 1008: 993: 989: 963: 960: 957: 954: 951: 947: 921: 918: 915: 912: 909: 904: 901: 896: 884:extended reals 880: 877: 865: 845: 825: 814:factor through 797: 794: 791: 788: 785: 765: 762: 759: 756: 753: 733: 730: 727: 724: 721: 701: 698: 695: 692: 689: 655: 653:factor through 650: 628: 623: 616: 611: 537: 532: 508:" because the 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3112: 3110: 3107: 3105: 3102: 3101: 3097: 3092: 3088: 3083: 3078: 3073: 3072:forgetful map 3069: 3053: 3044: 3041: 3038: 3032: 3019: 3004: 3000: 2995: 2990: 2954:” from a set 2953: 2949: 2944: 2941: 2937: 2932: 2929: 2925: 2921: 2916: 2911: 2906: 2902: 2897: 2892: 2887: 2883: 2879: 2877: 2868: 2853: 2833: 2813: 2793: 2785: 2768: 2765: 2761: 2758: 2738: 2735: 2728: 2725: 2721: 2718: 2712: 2706: 2703: 2700: 2677: 2674: 2671: 2651: 2644:and a subset 2631: 2628: 2625: 2602: 2599: 2596: 2593: 2590: 2567: 2561: 2558: 2555: 2548: 2544: 2539: 2534: 2529: 2525: 2520: 2515: 2498: 2495: 2492: 2472: 2469: 2466: 2446: 2426: 2418: 2414: 2409: 2406: 2402: 2399: 2398:canonical map 2395: 2390: 2385: 2380: 2376: 2371: 2366: 2364: 2362: 2358: 2351:Miscellaneous 2350: 2345: 2341: 2337: 2335: 2332: 2329: 2325: 2322: 2319: 2318: 2313: 2310: 2307: 2304: 2300: 2297: 2294: 2292: 2289: 2286: 2285:diagram chase 2282: 2278: 2274: 2270: 2266: 2264: 2261: 2258: 2254: 2251: 2248: 2244: 2240: 2236: 2232: 2229: 2226: 2224: 2221: 2218: 2217: 2212: 2208: 2207:by inspection 2205:be evaluated 2203: 2201:by inspection 2200: 2197: 2193: 2190: 2187: 2182: 2179: 2176: 2174: 2171: 2168: 2166:angle chasing 2165: 2164: 2163: 2157: 2151: 2147: 2144: 2141: 2140: 2136:, p.12) 2135: 2128: 2125: 2121: 2117: 2113: 2110: 2106: 2101: 2097: 2092: 2088: 2084: 2079: 2074: 2070: 2065: 2060: 2056: 2052: 2047: 2042: 2037: 2033: 2029: 2024: 2021: 2017: 2013: 2008: 2004: 1997: 1993: 1989: 1985: 1976: 1972: 1971:inner product 1968: 1964: 1960: 1959:vector spaces 1956: 1951: 1949: 1946: 1943: 1939: 1936: 1932: 1928: 1925: 1922: 1918: 1914: 1912: 1909: 1906: 1902: 1900: 1897: 1894: 1893:needs to show 1890: 1887: 1884: 1880: 1876: 1872: 1869: 1865: 1862:if (only if) 1861: 1857: 1853: 1849: 1845: 1841: 1839: 1836: 1833: 1829: 1826: 1823: 1819: 1816: 1813: 1810: 1806: 1802: 1799: 1796: 1792: 1789: 1788: 1787: 1785: 1777: 1772: 1769: 1766: 1762: 1759: 1756: 1752: 1748: 1744: 1741: 1738: 1734: 1730: 1726: 1722: 1718: 1714: 1710: 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Index

language of mathematics
vocabulary
jargon
rigorous
abstract nonsense
tongue-in-cheek
category theory
category
1997
Grothendieck
algebraic geometry
2001
canonical
mathematical object
Euclid's proof
the infinitude of primes
prime numbers
irrationality
square root of two
2006
prime number theorem
complex analysis
elementary proofs
π
real analysis
number theory
geometry
elegant
Gian-Carlo Rota
theorems

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