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Awfully sophisticated proof for simple facts
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What’s a mathematician to do?
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Demonstrating that rigour is important
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Linear Algebra Texts?
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Pseudonyms of famous mathematicians
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What’s the “best” proof of quadratic reciprocity?
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Major mathematical advances past age fifty (2)
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What are some correct results discovered with incorrect (or no) proofs? (2)
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Do you read the masters?
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Ingenuity in mathematics
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What are the worst notations, in your opinion ?
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Where is number theory used in the rest of mathematics?
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what mistakes did the Italian algebraic geometers actually make?
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Zagier’s one-sentence proof of Fermat’s theorem.
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Trichotomies in mathematics
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Is a “non-analytic” proof of Dirichlet’s theorem on primes known or possible?
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Please check my 6-line proof of Fermat’s Last Theorem.
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Is there a “Basic Number Theory” for elliptic curves?
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How do we know that Fermat wrote his famous note in 1637?
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Practical applications of algebraic number theory?
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Shortest/Most elegant proof for $L(1,\chi)\neq 0$
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Examples of using physical intuition to solve math problems
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Why are matrices ubiquitous but hypermatrices rare?
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Possibility of an Elementary Differential Geometry Course
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Applications of finite continued fractions
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prime factors of x^2 - 2
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Suggestions for good books on class field theory
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What are the pillars of Langlands?
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Showing e is transcendental using its continued fraction expansion
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Gauss’s views on pure mathematics
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