Re: [Haskell-cafe] Off-topic: Mathematics

On 29/08/2011 01:13 PM, Christopher Done wrote:

There's also #math on freenode, but it's a scary wilderness.

On 29 August 2011 13:34, Benedict Eastaugh wrote:

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On 29 August 2011 09:34, Andrew Coppin wrote:

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This is fairly wildly off-topic but... does anybody know of a good forum where I can ask questions about mathematics and get authoritative answers?

Apart from math.stackexchange.com and mathoverflow.net, which people have already mentioned, people often discuss mathematics on #haskell-blah on Freenode.

I know of several places where I can ask maths questions and half a dozen people will take guesses at what the correct solution might be. I haven't yet found anywhere where I can say "when would a chi-squared test be more appropriate than a KS test?" and get an informed, knowledgeable answer. (Answers from people who /know/ what they're talking about rather than just /think/ they know.) Anyway, from this thread I've got the names of a few places to start looking. And that's really what I was hoping for. Thanks for the tips.