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Examples of common false beliefs in mathematics.

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Favorite popular math book

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What are your favorite instructional counterexamples?

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Interesting mathematical documentaries

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Suggestions for a good Measure Theory book

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Not especially famous, long-open problems which anyone can understand (4)

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Counterexamples in Algebra?

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Good books on problem solving / math olympiad

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An example of a beautiful proof that would be accessible at the high school level?

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Elementary+Short+Useful (2)

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What’s the “best” proof of quadratic reciprocity?

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Examples of interesting false proofs

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A good book of functional analysis

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Old books still used

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The Ramanujan Problems.

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(Preferably rare) Audio/Video recordings of famous mathematicians? (3)

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Blackbox Theorems

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

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Fundamental problems whose solution seems completely out of reach (3)

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Examples of conjectures that were widely believed to be true but later proved false

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math circles video lectures for school children?

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Are there locally compact groups which have no compact open subgroups and no discrete infinite cyclic subgroups?

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Request for the proof of a result from Ramanujan’s letter to Hardy.

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A properties about expoential integral, 5.1.11 in Abramowitz and Stegun

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List of open problems of formal languages