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 Title	 Author	Created	Updated
Intrinsic termination	Ciro Santilli 37	NaN-NaN-NaN	2025-07-16
Two different Lie groups can have the same Lie algebra	Ciro Santilli 37	NaN-NaN-NaN	2025-07-16
Every Lie group that has a given Lie algebra is the image of an homomorphism from the universal cover group	Ciro Santilli 37	NaN-NaN-NaN	2025-07-16
Lie bracket	Ciro Santilli 37	NaN-NaN-NaN	2025-07-16
4373b97e4525be4c2f4b491be9f14ac2b106ba521587dad8f134040d16ff73af	Ciro Santilli 37	NaN-NaN-NaN	2025-07-16
1926 Nobel Prize in Physics	Ciro Santilli 37	NaN-NaN-NaN	2025-07-16
Generators of a Lie algebra	Ciro Santilli 37	NaN-NaN-NaN	2025-07-16
Lie bracket of a matrix Lie group	Ciro Santilli 37	NaN-NaN-NaN	2025-07-16
University of Oxford intellectual property policy	Ciro Santilli 37	NaN-NaN-NaN	2025-07-16
Special linear group of dimension 2	Ciro Santilli 37	NaN-NaN-NaN	2025-07-16
Lie algebra of $S L (n)$	Ciro Santilli 37	NaN-NaN-NaN	2025-07-16
Isometry group	Ciro Santilli 37	NaN-NaN-NaN	2025-07-16
Orthogonal group	Ciro Santilli 37	NaN-NaN-NaN	2025-07-16
Semisynthesis	Ciro Santilli 37	NaN-NaN-NaN	2025-07-16
What happens to the definition of the orthogonal group if we choose other types of symmetric bilinear forms	Ciro Santilli 37	NaN-NaN-NaN	2025-07-16
The orthogonal group is the group of all invertible matrices where the inverse is equal to the transpose	Ciro Santilli 37	NaN-NaN-NaN	2025-07-16
Jena SPARQL hello world	Ciro Santilli 37	NaN-NaN-NaN	2025-07-16
Elements of the orthogonal group have determinant plus or minus one	Ciro Santilli 37	NaN-NaN-NaN	2025-07-16
Lie algebra of $O (n)$	Ciro Santilli 37	NaN-NaN-NaN	2025-07-16
Lie bracket of the rotation group	Ciro Santilli 37	NaN-NaN-NaN	2025-07-16

 Pinned article: Introduction to the OurBigBook Project

Welcome to the OurBigBook Project! Our goal is to create the perfect publishing platform for STEM subjects, and get university-level students to write the best free STEM tutorials ever.

Everyone is welcome to create an account and play with the site: ourbigbook.com/go/register. We belive that students themselves can write amazing tutorials, but teachers are welcome too. You can write about anything you want, it doesn't have to be STEM or even educational. Silly test content is very welcome and you won't be penalized in any way. Just keep it legal!

Video 1.

Intro to OurBigBook

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We have two killer features:

topics: topics group articles by different users with the same title, e.g. here is the topic for the "Fundamental Theorem of Calculus" ourbigbook.com/go/topic/fundamental-theorem-of-calculus
Articles of different users are sorted by upvote within each article page. This feature is a bit like:
- a Wikipedia where each user can have their own version of each article
- a Q&A website like Stack Overflow, where multiple people can give their views on a given topic, and the best ones are sorted by upvote. Except you don't need to wait for someone to ask first, and any topic goes, no matter how narrow or broad
This feature makes it possible for readers to find better explanations of any topic created by other writers. And it allows writers to create an explanation in a place that readers might actually find it.
Figure 1.
Screenshot of the "Derivative" topic page
. View it live at: ourbigbook.com/go/topic/derivative
Video 2.
OurBigBook Web topics demo
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local editing: you can store all your personal knowledge base content locally in a plaintext markup format that can be edited locally and published either:
- to OurBigBook.com to get awesome multi-user features like topics and likes
- as HTML files to a static website, which you can host yourself for free on many external providers like GitHub Pages, and remain in full control
This way you can be sure that even if OurBigBook.com were to go down one day (which we have no plans to do as it is quite cheap to host!), your content will still be perfectly readable as a static site.
Figure 2.
You can publish local OurBigBook lightweight markup files to either OurBigBook.com or as a static website
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Figure 3.
Visual Studio Code extension installation
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Figure 4.
Visual Studio Code extension tree navigation
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Figure 5.
Web editor
. You can also edit articles on the Web editor without installing anything locally.
Video 3.
Edit locally and publish demo
. Source. This shows editing OurBigBook Markup and publishing it using the Visual Studio Code extension.
Video 4.
OurBigBook Visual Studio Code extension editing and navigation demo
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Internal cross file references done right:
Infinitely deep tables of contents:
Figure 6.
Dynamic article tree with infinitely deep table of contents
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Live URL: ourbigbook.com/cirosantilli/chordate
Descendant pages can also show up as toplevel e.g.: ourbigbook.com/cirosantilli/chordate-subclade