Nate Eldredge

Colorado

http://thatsmathematics.com

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Is it ethical to profit by having my students buy my textbook?

teaching ethics books asked Dec 28, 2013 at 6:45

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83 votes

How do I verify the Coq proof of Feit-Thompson?

gr.group-theory lo.logic finite-groups formal-proof coq asked May 2, 2014 at 3:05

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81 votes

To avoid legal battle, in bussiness world reference letters are written extremely terse. How do academics get away with this?

recommendation-letter united-states legal-issues asked Aug 21, 2014 at 2:22

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66 votes

I'm a professor being mistaken for a grad student, how to handle this?

etiquette united-states social-skills asked Mar 14, 2019 at 3:20

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65 votes

Is the box topology good for anything?

general-topology product-space box-product asked May 2, 2011 at 12:51

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54 votes

Avoiding "Zoom bombing" in virtual conferences and seminars

conference seminars covid-19 video-conference asked Apr 6, 2020 at 23:11

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52 votes

How to buy plane tickets for job interviews?

job job-search interview hiring travel asked Jan 25, 2013 at 20:54

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50 votes

Renting a house to a graduate student in my department

ethics conflict-of-interest asked May 8, 2019 at 19:50

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49 votes

Should I contact accomplished researchers listed as editors of shady journal?

journals etiquette editors publishers disreputable-publishers asked Jun 13, 2014 at 1:35

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46 votes

Why is the error function defined as it is?

probability statistics special-functions normal-distribution asked May 8, 2011 at 20:19

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Lab colleague uses cracked software. Should I report it?

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How to deal with students who submit their homework as an attachment to a completely blank e-mail?

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I am uncomfortable about students taking pictures of the blackboard, because I don't like appearing in them

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Is my approach to discouraging whiners from taking my class acceptable?

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220

When can a sum and integral be interchanged?

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Why do probabilists take random variables to be Borel (and not Lebesgue) measurable?

mathoverflow.net

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Why is processing an unsorted array the same speed as processing a sorted array with modern x86-64 clang?

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I realize I made a huge mistake in my thesis and am not sure what to do. I'm defending very soon (days away). What should I do?

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Does the Constitution of Bhutan state that 60% of Bhutan must be forested?

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Can I say no when my principal investigator asks me to help cover lectures next semester?

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Student caught cheating when leaving class after handing me the exam

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Where did I lose control of my studies?

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Is it inappropriate to tell my students to check their school email?

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Editor rejected manuscript claiming it is similar to a not-yet-published manuscript (that I haven't seen). How to proceed?

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How to deal with students leaving the class for 10 min during the lecture?

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Is it possible to teach two different courses that meet almost at the same time?

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Did Obama defy precedent by not visiting the D-Day monument?

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Should I reward points for an incorrect answer if it is the result of misinformation presented in a TA's office hours?

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123

Publication - discovered an error in the proof of theorem which the referees have not spotted, what to do?

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Is it appropriate to ask the professor a trick question?

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Retract an already submitted recommendation letter (written for an undergrad student)

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Where is the flaw in this "proof" that 1=2? (Derivative of repeated addition)

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Is it acceptable that I plot a time-series figure with years increasing from right to left?

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Best way to dispose of a carry-on bag in Hong Kong airport?

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What to do about "grade grubbers?"

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118

Why did the metro bus stop at each railway crossing, despite no warning indicating a train was coming?

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What consequences are there if, having already graduated and received my degree, I do not pay up my tuition fees?

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What does authorship ordering really mean in field X?

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Are my parents ripping me off with this deal that doesn't allow me to build my equity in my home?

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Was Paul Manafort exonerated for the crimes he’s now charged with?

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