http://www.thebigquestions.com/2012/03/20/touched-by-greatness/ The Big Questions | Tackling the Problems of Philosophy with Ideas from Mathematics, Economics, and Physics Mon, 27 May 2013 02:37:46 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://www.thebigquestions.com/2012/03/20/touched-by-greatness/comment-page-1/#comment-46377 Ken B Tue, 20 Mar 2012 16:41:21 +0000 http://www.thebigquestions.com/?p=7255#comment-46377 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wWUc8BZgWE http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wWUc8BZgWE

]]> http://www.thebigquestions.com/2012/03/20/touched-by-greatness/comment-page-1/#comment-46321 Alex Flint Tue, 20 Mar 2012 09:54:26 +0000 http://www.thebigquestions.com/?p=7255#comment-46321 MathOverflow is stunning. I'm impressed at how much kind and helpful assistance I get as a relative amateur in the fields I ask about (optimisation theory, mostly). Perhaps even more than most online communities, MathOverflow has very little appeal to trolls and script kiddies. MathOverflow is stunning. I’m impressed at how much kind and helpful assistance I get as a relative amateur in the fields I ask about (optimisation theory, mostly). Perhaps even more than most online communities, MathOverflow has very little appeal to trolls and script kiddies.

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