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Do good math jokes exist?

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Favorite popular math book

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Thinking and Explaining

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Jokes in the sense of Littlewood: examples?

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Why should one still teach Riemann integration?

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A Book You Would Like to Write

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Elementary+Short+Useful

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What would you want to see at the Museum of Mathematics?

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Describe a topic in one sentence.

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Careers advice for Ph.D.s without current postdocs or university jobs

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How To Present Mathematics To Non-Mathematicians?

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Ingenuity in mathematics

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f(f(x))=exp(x)-1 and other functions “just in the middle” between linear and exponential.

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Lost soul: loneliness in pursing math. Advice needed.

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Is rigour just a ritual that most mathematicians wish to get rid of if they could?

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What’s a nice argument that shows the volume of the unit n-ball in R^n approaches 0?

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Submitting to arXiv when unaffiliated

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Submission of a paper with a serious error to a good journal

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Fundamental problems whose solution seems completely out of reach

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Is there a good reason why a^{2b} + b^{2a} <= 1 when a+b=1?

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Fourier transform of Analytic Functions

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Non-computational software useful to mathematicians

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Publishing a bad paper?

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How often do people read the work that they cite?

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How seriously do professors take teaching evaluations?

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Help with a double sum, please

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What is the status of the Gauss Circle Problem?

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When to pick a basis?

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Extreme point compact convex set.

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before taking on a graduate student