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Examples of common false beliefs in mathematics. (2)

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Too old for advanced mathematics?

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Famous mathematical quotes

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Awfully sophisticated proof for simple facts

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Fundamental Examples

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Most memorable titles

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Why do we teach calculus students the derivative as a limit?

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What are the most misleading alternate definitions in taught mathematics?

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Which math paper maximizes the ratio (importance)/(length)?

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Why should one still teach Riemann integration?

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Why worry about the axiom of choice?

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How should one present curl and divergence in an undergraduate multivariable calculus class?

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Top specialized journals

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Refereeing a Paper

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Most harmful heuristic?

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How To Present Mathematics To Non-Mathematicians?

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Is Thompson’s Group F amenable?

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Approaches to Riemann hypothesis using methods outside number theory

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Algebraic geometry examples

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Inaccessible cardinals and Andrew Wiles’s proof

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Is there an introduction to probability theory from a structuralist/categorical perspective?

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Great mathematicians born 1850-1920 (ET Bell’s book ≲ x ≲ Fields Medalists)

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Interesting Calculus Questions/Exercises

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Can a mathematical definition be wrong?

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Is it possible to write a research statement which is too short?

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Irreducibility of polynomials in two variables

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Is Galois theory necessary (in a basic graduate algebra course)?

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Different ways of proving that two sets are equal

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Reductio ad absurdum or the contrapositive?

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Curriculum vitae: including grants you’ve applied for, not received (or not yet received).