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| location | Florence, Italy | |
| age | 23 | |
| visits | member for | 1 year, 3 months |
| seen | Feb 27 at 6:50 | |
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Master's student in Florence, Italy, currently on an ERASMUS program at FU Berlin. My main interest is Algebraic Topology. I wrote my bachelor degree project on Morse Theory. Here are some of my favourite quotes:
"To ask the right question is harder than to answer it." - Georg Cantor
"Reductio ad absurdum, which Euclid loved so much, is one of a mathematician's finest weapons. It is a far finer gambit than any chess gambit: a chess player may offer the sacrifice of a pawn or even a piece, but a mathematician offers the game." (G. H. Hardy)
"We say that a proof is beautiful when it gives away the secret of the theorem, when it leads us to perceive the inevitability of the statement being proved." (Giancarlo Rota)
"A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems." (Alfréd Rényi)
"Mathematicians may turn coffee into theorems, but with an american coffee the most you'll get out of me is a lemma." (a Professor at my university)
A topologist is someone who can't tell his ass from a hole in the ground, but can tell his ass from two holes in the ground.
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Jan 3 |
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problem with align But now the aligned equations aren't centered as they were before. |
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Jan 3 |
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problem with align But I wanted to put my short remark in a shortintertext to avoid losing a lot of space. Perhaps there is no way to avoid alignign equations starting from the first line in the align environment... |
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Jan 3 |
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problem with align Thanks for your answer. The point, however, is that I don't want the part after the short remark to be aligned with anything above. I would like the first line to have its own natural spacing and would like to start aligning stuff after that, which is what happens if I use two separate align environments. |
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Jan 3 |
asked | problem with align |
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May 26 |
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How to include concluding remarks in my paper BTW if you do have any personal preferences and suggestions, I would be very interested! |
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May 26 |
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How to include concluding remarks in my paper @Caramadir If you have suggestions on how to word this, and future questions better, I'm eager to know. Also, thaks for the edits. |
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May 26 |
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How to include concluding remarks in my paper @egreg Yes, that's true, but my remarks aren't introductory comments. The paper is about Intuitionism in the Philosophy of Mathematics, and I would like to conclude with some considerations on how Intuitionism has failed to provide an acceptable solution to the foundational crisis; for these comments I need to make explicit reference to results which have come up throughout the text. |
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May 26 |
awarded | Commentator |
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May 26 |
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How to include concluding remarks in my paper Thanks a lot, I guess this is the best alternative. |
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May 26 |
accepted | How to include concluding remarks in my paper |
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May 25 |
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How to include concluding remarks in my paper @egreg They really should go at the end, because they explicitly refer to things that came up throughout the whole text. |
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May 25 |
asked | How to include concluding remarks in my paper |
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May 23 |
accepted | a couple of questions on xy-pic |
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May 23 |
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a couple of questions on xy-pic Thanks, this is what I was looking for! I hadn't thought of adjusting the interrow and intercolumn spacing. |
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May 23 |
asked | a couple of questions on xy-pic |
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May 3 |
awarded | Scholar |
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May 3 |
accepted | Multiple aligning symbols |
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May 3 |
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Multiple aligning symbols @egreg Thanks :D I didn't paste the part of code I was working on because it is quite long, and what I wanted to achieve is really similar to the numerical example I wrote. Basically I wanted to write a list, aligning each element of the list vertically, and expanding each one into a series of equations. If I just used align, and & for the = signs then the elements of the list (in this case 1, 4, 7) wouldn't be aligned any more. |
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May 3 |
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Multiple aligning symbols @PeterGrill Yes, thank you! I guess alignat is what I was looking for. Does anybody know where to find documentations for this environment (I still don't quite understand it from the example). |
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May 3 |
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Multiple aligning symbols I had heard of alignat but it doesn't seem to have multiple symbols and I also couldn't find the documentation. If someone answers the question using alignat to show me how to write my (stupid) example I would be very grateful :D |
