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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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Geometry books that prove uniqueness

I am looking for a rigorous geometry book where it is proved that the endpoints of a line segment are uniquely determined, the endpoint of a ray is uniquely determined, the radius and center of a circle are uniquely determined, etc. All the geometry…
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Reference for very basic books in Number theory

I'm confused about which books I have to read for Elementary number theory for the beginner level. I need references for very basic books in Elementary number theory and that book must contain given Topics below $ 1.$Divisibility $2.$…
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I need your help to find this article

I need this article, I tried to find it somewhere but nothing, I really need your help. A. Lerat and R. Peyret, Rech. Aerosp. 2(1975) 61—79 Maybe it's written in French, no problem, I still need it. Thanks a lot in advance
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Prerequisites for Callaghan's Advanced Calculus

A few months ago I got hold of a cheap copy of this book. It's quite an advanced book and I was wondering if there is some other book that I should read first, which would lead nicely into Callaghan's book. Background: I study math just as a hobby.…
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Solid reference for limit superior and inferior

I am looking for a good reference which introduces the concepts of limit superior and inferior either online or in a book. The materials I have searched for online have not really been helpful.
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Book Recommendations: Axiomatic Approach

As one of the features that Euclid's Elements states, we can build up an entire subject system by simply combining and constructing using a few pieces of axioms, by doing construction of axioms, we can construct theorems, acquire new definitions,…
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I want help translating this article

I can find someone who masters the Russian language I want help translating this article :
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Suggestion for Reference book to study positive operator

I want to learn about positive operators, about their square root and some other properties of them. I have two books on functional analysis but they haven't discussed about them. They have discuss some basic operators like self adjoint, normal,…
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Arithmetic with ranges

Suppose I have a real number $x$ and a real number $y$. Now it's quite simple to compute their sum $x + y$. But now, suppose I don't actually know exactly what value $x$ has. But I do know that it's definitely contained in $x_0 \leq x \leq x_1$.…
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Reference that explores calculating the continuous limiting distribution of a sequence of discrete random variables

I am trying to calculate the limiting distribution of a sequence of discrete random variables. Is there a reference I can use that explores the techniques to use, and the theoretical aspects of what kind of convergence it is, etc. ?
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Physics and logic combination papers

Are there papers that combine the subjects of logic and physics? I would like to read some texts that use both logic and physics. It could be either an application of logic to physics or physics to logic.
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Where to get a copy of: Valeurs principales associées aux temps locaux Browniens

All: Where to get a copy of an paper: Valeurs principales associées aux temps locaux Browniens The paper was published on: Bulletin des Sciences Mathématiques Bull. Sci. Math. 111 (1987), p. 23-101 Our library does not have this journal for…
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Proof for claim that mixtures of Gaussian distributions are dense in the set of probability distributions

I've been trying to find a proof for the claim that Mixtures of Gaussian distributions are dense in the set of probability distributions, with respect to the weak topology. but I have failed to do so. Does anyone know where I can read more about…
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Reference request: Article from The Economist

In a 2012 article in The Economist entitled "The half-life of facts", mathematician Samuel Arbesman states that "two high-school students figured out a new way to prove one of Euclid's theorems, something that had not been done in a thousand…
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Where to Find "Practical Nonparametric Statistics" by W.J. Conover?

I am taking a course on non-parametric statistics in my final year of my undergrad this fall, and our professor told us to get the book "Practical Nonparametric Statistics" by W.J. Conover. I can't seem to find a hard-copy at any bookstore I've gone…
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