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Demystifying complex numbers
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Fiction books about mathematicians?
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Is rigour just a ritual that most mathematicians wish to get rid of if they could?
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Writing papers in pre-LaTeX era?
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Trichotomies in mathematics (2)
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Why is the fundamental group of a compact Riemann surface not free ?
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The role of the mean value theorem (MVT) in first-year calculus.
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Occurrences of (co)homology in other disciplines and/or nature
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What does the adjective “natural” actually mean?
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What are some of the big open problems in 3-manifold theory?
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before taking on a graduate student
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What are some examples of “chimeras” in mathematics?
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Importance of Poincaré recurrence theorem? Any example?
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Music: mathematical point of view (revised)
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Compelling evidence that two basepoints are better than one
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Fundamental groups of noncompact surfaces
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Existence of simultaneously normal finite index subgroups
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Was the early calculus inconsistent?
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Example of a manifold which is not a homogeneous space of any Lie group
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Orbifold fundamental group in terms of loops?
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Instances where an existence result precedes the constructive version
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Math for a cake
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Continuous notions with compelling discrete analogues
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Are properties of geodesics on a cylinder unique to cylinders?
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Applications of periodic continued fractions
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The relationship between low dimensional topology and dynamics
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Analogues of the dihedral group (2)
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Connected sum of topological manifolds
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How can I tell whether a manifold is homogeneous?
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Actions on Sⁿ with quotient Sⁿ
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