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Brian Borchers
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I'm a mathematics professor at New Mexico Tech.

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Two-thirds of my class colluded. Should I report them to the academic offences committee?
Jul 21, 2021
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How to handle a student who will not accept that he is wrong?
Feb 13, 2017
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Elsevier production team messed up my paper. What should I do?
Dec 15, 2016
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What are the motivations for publishing new editions of an existing textbook, beyond new discoveries in a field?
Apr 9, 2019
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How to explain to a student that it is common to include a supervisor as a co-author?
Sep 23, 2015
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A professor has offered to send me a hard copy of his new book. Would it be rude to ask for a PDF file instead?
Aug 5, 2015
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What do mathematics researchers do if they aren't good?
Apr 25, 2015
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At how many citations should I make my Google Scholar profile public?
Dec 31, 2015
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Just got tenured and promoted, but need to move for family reasons
Apr 7, 2015
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Is there a way to save my students money on a textbook?
Nov 23, 2014
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Solving for regression parameters in closed-form vs gradient descent
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why is A*v+B*v faster than (A+B)*v?
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What does it mean to integrate with respect to the distribution function?
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How did early computers deal with calculations involving pounds, shillings, and pence?
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sublinear rate of convergence in mathematical optimization