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What do heat kernels have to do with the Riemann-Roch theorem and the Gauss-Bonnet theorem?
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What are some famous rejections of correct mathematics? (2)
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The phenomena of eventual counterexamples (3)
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What is the difference between matrix theory and linear algebra?
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Which mathematical ideas have done most to change history? (2)
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Simulating Turing machines with {O,P}DEs.
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How helpful is non-standard analysis?
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which are the recomemnded books for an introductory study of elliptic curves?
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Mathematical explanation of the failure to quantize gravity naively
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What is the time complexity of computing sin(x) to t bits of precision?
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How has “what every mathematician should know” changed?
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Proving that a combinatorial sequence has no compact formula
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Where does a math person go to learn statistical mechanics?
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Examples of mathematics motivated by technological considerations
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When a Banach space is a Hilbert space?
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Polynomials and L^p(R)
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Making sure that you have comprehended a concept
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Martingales and Betting Strategies
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Is there a mathematical axiomatization of time (other than, perhaps, entropy)?
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Which math paper maximizes the ratio (importance)/(length)?
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Fun applications of representations of finite groups (2)
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What part do arguments from authority play in mathematical reasoning?
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Sticks and thread
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Explicit computations using the Haar measure
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Facts from algebraic geometry that are useful to non-algebraic geometers
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Discrete version of Ito’s lemma
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What role does Cauchy’s determinant identity play in combinatorics?
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Is there a natural random process that is rigorously known to produce Zipf’s law?
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Notable mathematics during World War II
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“Industry”/Government jobs for mathematicians
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