I considered a table of integrals too, but it’s rare that I come across an integral these days that I should be doing rather than handing off to Mathematica (or it’s a specialized one like a Laplace transform). The birthdays idea is a good one, but Google Calendar does that for me far more effectively.
I might want to do one for the names of prominent theorems, though. Then I’ll be able to just say “the Cayley Hamilton theorem” instead of “you can express any function of a matrix as a combination of N-1 powers of that matrix.”
I considered a table of integrals too, but it’s rare that I come across an integral these days that I should be doing rather than handing off to Mathematica (or it’s a specialized one like a Laplace transform). The birthdays idea is a good one, but Google Calendar does that for me far more effectively.
I might want to do one for the names of prominent theorems, though. Then I’ll be able to just say “the Cayley Hamilton theorem” instead of “you can express any function of a matrix as a combination of N-1 powers of that matrix.”