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Mathematical “urban legends” (2)
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Why do we teach calculus students the derivative as a limit?
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Why is a topology made up of ‘open’ sets?
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Not especially famous, long-open problems which anyone can understand (2)
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Good combinatorics textbooks for teaching undergraduates?
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Why does the Riemann zeta function have non-trivial zeros?
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Strong induction without a base case
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Does a referee have to check carefully the proof ?
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Mazur’s unpublished manuscript on primes and knots?
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Simple but serious problems for the edification of non-mathematicians
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Music: mathematical point of view (revised)
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What is the simplest, most elementary proof that a particular number is transcendental? (2)
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‘Important’ applications of p-adic numbers outside of algebra (and number theory).
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Reference in Riemann Surfaces
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Zero-knowledge proof that 0 = 1
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Textbook for undergraduate course in geometry
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Examples of two different descriptions of a set that are not obviously equivalent?
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Recent work on hypergeometric functions
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Is the set of undecidable problems decidable?
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A senseful meaning of ‘approximation of manifolds’?
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Statistics of Extended GCD
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Eigenvectors of a diagonalizable matrix (2)
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Binary operations compatible with the usual order on the reals
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An equivalence relation on group actions
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On Pseudo-finite topological spaces (2)
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Can continuity of a function be checked by restricting to smooth curves?
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Conditional probability with permutations
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Axiomatizing closeness: the reciprocal triangle inequality
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On One point Lindeloffication of topological spaces
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probability theory for combinatorialists
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