Alexandre Eremenko

United States

http://www.math.purdue.edu/~eremenko

Math Professor

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When exactly and why did matrix multiplication become a part of the undergraduate curriculum?

linear-algebra mathematics-education physics math-education-history asked Nov 1, 2014 at 21:29

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49 votes

When exactly (and why) did matrices become a part of the undergraduate curriculum?

mathematics physics education asked Nov 1, 2014 at 21:02

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40 votes

Four circles on the sphere

gt.geometric-topology discrete-geometry hyperbolic-geometry asked Jun 11, 2018 at 16:53

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37 votes

Circles and rational functions

cv.complex-variables asked Aug 4, 2012 at 14:44

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33 votes

Topology on the set of analytic functions

gn.general-topology cv.complex-variables asked Aug 26, 2013 at 12:47

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30 votes

Three real polynomials

real-analysis polynomials asked May 20, 2019 at 13:20

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30 votes

Roman engineers

engineering roman-empire antiquity asked Mar 6, 2015 at 20:26

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29 votes

Rational functions with a common iterate

cv.complex-variables ds.dynamical-systems functional-equations fractional-iteration asked Dec 1, 2012 at 20:59

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29 votes

Arnold on Newton's anagram

reference-request ho.history-overview puiseux-series asked Aug 24, 2013 at 20:23

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27 votes

A problem of potential theory arising in biology

potential-theory heat-equation asked Sep 5, 2015 at 14:50

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Nontrivially fillable gaps in published proofs of major theorems

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Mistakes in mathematics, false illusions about conjectures

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Mathematical conjectures on which applications depend

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Is the Riemann zeta function surjective?

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Good "casual" advanced math books

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Liouville's theorem with your bare hands

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Lost soul: loneliness in pursing math. Advice needed.

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Useless math that became useful

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Teaching homology via everyday examples

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Which came first, the natural logarithm or the base of the natural logarithm?

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Is there a reason why Turkey took the Balkan territories of the Ottoman Empire, instead of Greece or another of the Balkan states?

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Has the mathematics research community ever been led astray by a dumb mistake?

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Is spherical trigonometry a dead research area?

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Is amateur research in mathematics viable?

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Is St. Petersburg a good place for the 2022 Int. Congress of Mathematicians

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How did passengers keep warm on sail ships?

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real symmetric matrix has real eigenvalues - elementary proof

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How can a mathematician handle the pressure to discover something new?

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On equation $f(z+1)-f(z)=f'(z)$

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Do you know important theorems that remain unknown?

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What knowledge may have been lost at the Library of Alexandria?

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What is "Teichmüller Theory" and its history?

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Most intriguing mathematical epigraphs

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Is it possible to have a research career while checking the proof of every theorem that you cite?

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Why did the Soviet Union close its borders and restrict travel abroad?

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What are examples of (collections of) papers which "close" a field?

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Old books still used

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Why did Germany not join the United Nations until 1973?

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Trichotomies in mathematics

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What areas of pure mathematics research are best for a post-PhD transition to industry?

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