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This tag is for questions seeking external references (books, articles, etc.) about a particular subject. Please do not use this as the only tag for a question.

This tag is for questions seeking external references (books, articles, websites, etc.) about a particular subject. It is intended for use along with other, more "mathematical" tags. Please do not use this as the only tag for your questions. See this discussion on Meta.

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Reference Request: Differential Geometry Book

What is a good self study book in Differential Geometry. Keep in mind I won't have the advantage of being able to ask a professor any questions.
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Equivalence books for Bourbaki's Element of Mathematics

I find that the arrangement of basic topics in Bourbaki's book is quite elegant, I want to learn mathematics following this order. But one problem is the books is too old and sometimes too complex for novice. For example, the Vol.1 last chapter, I…
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Can anybody suggest me references for functional analysis? My main concern is to do examples as much as i can.

Can anybody suggest me references for functional analysis? My main concern is to workout examples as much as i can do. Also if there is any web resources to help mein this regard ? Thanks for giving me time.
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What is a nice self studying pre algebra and algebra 1 book for a 15 year old with really rusty math skills?

I am currently 15 years old and I have really really rusty math skills especially algebra. My algebra test score is usually around 45% and I am going into the 10th grade next year. I have two months of holidays coming up and i want to improve me…
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What should i do with my own theorem?

I don't know whether I should ask this question here or nor but I will really appreciate if someone answered it. Although I am a teenager, I am lucky to have discovered a theorem in Mathematics. The discovery was made about 7 months ago but I could…
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References for involutive systems of vector fields?

Can anyone recommend me references dealing with involutive systems of vector fields? I'm taking a course which is using the book An Introduction to Involutive Structures (F. Berhanu, J. Hounie, P. Cordaro), it's a survey of the last 25 years in the…
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Reading references about the process of proving a theorem, or doing mathematics in general

Doing mathematics is a very unique process, that puzzles non-mathematicians. All PhD students or professional mathematicians regularly hear things like "What? There are still theorems to prove? In 2015?" or "You're mathematician? So... what do you…
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Logical dependence of the chapters of Lee's Smooth Manifolds, 2nd Ed.

Has anyone written down the logical dependence graph for the chapters of Lee's wonderful book Smooth Manifolds, 2nd Ed.? I'm currently working my way through it and would like to know which chapters I could skip, if I so choose. My main goal is to…
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Grothendieck groups

I have started doing a paper Applications of a New $K$-Theoretic Theorem to Soluble Group Rings by Kropholler which proves Kaplansky conjecture for soluble groups. Now looking ahead in paper, I saw that it uses Grothendieck groups associated with…
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Voronoi Diagrams (Reference request)

I'm studying some solid state physics and I saw the definition of Wigner-Seitz cell (or Voronoi). I'd like to see some examples of this with rigorous mathematics. I mean just some simple cases like honeycomb lattices and such. Thanks
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Random Walk - expected distance from Origin

I am looking for publications dealing with the expected Distance from Origin (not RMS mean) after a Random Walk in a 2 or 3 dimensional space (not latticed). I would appreciate if anyone can point to some references to publications related to (or…
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Proof of Riesz-Fisher Theorem

Can someone provide a proof or a source containing a proof of the version of the Riesz-Fisher Theorem provided here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riesz%E2%80%93Fischer_theorem#Modern_forms_of_the_theorem?
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Simplicial Homotopy Theory (References)

I'd like to know some good references,introductory or not in Simplicial Homotopy Theory. Thanks.
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Ways of proving that $A=0$

I was solving a problem where you had to prove that some number $=0$. My strategy was to show that $Ak=A$ for some $k$ not equal to 1, hence $A(k-1)=0$ from which it follows that $A=0$. Abstracting away from that particular problem I was solving…
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Looking for a book about Math

This may be almost entirely off topic so i apologize to the moderators in advance. Please redirect or suggest. I read a book a number of years that was absolutely phenomenal and i have yet to find it again. I have scoured the internet in pursuit of…
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