@N3buchadnezzar I found it told in different ways. Cardano did some job about the cubic: his main contribution is the analysis of the "casus irreducibilis".
@N3buchadnezzar I-don't-remember-what Bernoulli said, some years after L'Hôpital was dead, that he sold the theorem to him. However L'Hôpital was a fine mathematician and his book was very good.
@N3buchadnezzar There's a famous lemma in module theory (which, by the way, was started by Emmy Noether) attributed to Nakayama. Nakayama himself said that it was not his, but by Azumaya; but everybody talks about Nakayama's lemma. :)
I am trying to compile a large list of problems regarding simplifications of expressions, and factorization of polynomials, and other interesting equations.
Does any editor or *TeX front-end provide the following feature?
Given an arXiv preprint number, say 1234.5678, automatically produce the relevant bibtex entry. This could be done for instance by looking up the webpage http://arxiv.org/abs/1234.5678 whose source contains something like
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@N3buchadnezzar Well, mimetex doesn't use TeX at all, AFAIK. You could try convincing them to use, e.g., MathTeX. I saw there was a thread with a suggestion about that.
@PauloCereda I like the look. Actually, the question was prompted by a discussion with a friend of mine, also phd student in physics.
You'd have to take care that authors often include TeX-like math in their abstract, which can sometimes be tricky. For instance, you'd often find $\cN=4$ or $\Ncal=4$ for \(\mathcal{N}=4\).
@MartinScharrer I don't think you should delete your meta question on the web page design. Just add something saying that others might want to know the rest as well. (Which is probably true.)
@MartinScharrer @egreg If you have the time, the whole episode is great, but if you're pressed for time, start around the 8min mark. youtube.com/watch?v=ePXJvthL49Y
@egreg I'm three votes away from our first ever Reversal badge.
@egreg Yes, I just down voted it myself (I hadn't before.) What's odd is that someone voted the question up when they (presumably) gave me an upvote which defeats the whole purpose of the excercise. :-). What I don't know is whether the 20 upvotes have to be received while the question is at -5 or not. Anyway, it's not really a big deal, I just thought it would be a curiosity to have. We have so few really bad questions on the site that the badge will be quite rare.
Ha! Got it. Our first (and possibly only) reversal badge! Now I'm starting to feel like Frasier.
Is it possible to intorduce an own table of contents in Latex?
I would like to introduce an own tag, to define some terms in my document.
At the end of the document I would like to automatically generate a list of defined terms, with links to the page, where the term was defined.
@egreg Canageek has a fair chance at getting Stellar Question. As for me earning Marshal: You'll have to wait quite a while -- I'm at 709 flag weight right now (290 helpful flags, no dismissed one), while for a flag weight of 749 one needs 566 helpful flags.
@egreg I'd say it's a sign that the concept of Tenacious and Unsung Hero is flawed.
Does any editor or *TeX front-end provide the following feature?
Given an arXiv preprint number, say 1234.5678, automatically produce the relevant bibtex entry. This could be done for instance by looking up the webpage http://arxiv.org/abs/1234.5678 whose source contains something like
<meta...
Is it possible to intorduce an own table of contents in Latex?
I would like to introduce an own tag, to define some terms in my document.
At the end of the document I would like to automatically generate a list of defined terms, with links to the page, where the term was defined.
