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Video lectures of mathematics courses available online for free
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Do good math jokes exist?
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Why is a topology made up of ‘open’ sets?
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Intuitive crutches for higher dimensional thinking
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What are the most misleading alternate definitions in taught mathematics?
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Thinking and Explaining
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Ways to prove the fundamental theorem of algebra
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Theorems that are ‘obvious’ but hard to prove (2)
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Jokes in the sense of Littlewood: examples?
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Which journals publish expository work?
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Books you would like to read (if somebody would just write them…)
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Knuth’s intuition that Goldbach might be unprovable
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Memorizing theorems
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What are some reasonable-sounding statements that are independent of ZFC?
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Induction vs. Strong Induction
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Generalizing a problem to make it easier
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Why is differentiating mechanics and integration art?
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What is the first interesting theorem in (insert subject here)?
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Ingenuity in mathematics
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Experimental Mathematics (2)
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What are examples of mathematical concepts named after the wrong people? (Stigler’s law) (2)
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Examples of undergraduate mathematics separation from what mathematicians should know
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Papers that debunk common myths in the history of mathematics
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Can a mathematical definition be wrong?
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Example of a good Zero Knowledge Proof.
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Examples of theorems misapplied to non-mathematical contexts
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Nontrivial question about fibonacci numbers?
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Different ways of proving that two sets are equal
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Linear Algebra Proofs in Combinatorics?
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Non Borel sets without axiom of choice
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