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Proofs without words
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Most harmful heuristic?
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Alternatives to pi day
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How to teach addition of negative numbers?
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effective teaching
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If you break a stick at two points chosen uniformly, the probability the three resulting sticks form a triangle is 1/4. Is there a “nice” proof of this fact?
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Where can I find the text of Weyl’s Fields Medal speech for Serre?
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A problem of an infinite number of balls and an urn
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What is the term analogous to “Wronskian” for difference equations?
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Why the search for ever larger primes?
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Earliest diagonal proof of the uncountability of the reals.
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Are there elementary-school curricula that capture the joy of mathematics?
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Just starting with [combinatorial] game theory
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Name of the Marshall Hall paper in which he proved that the intersection of all subgroups of a fixed finite index is again finite index?
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Must a locally compact group be Hausdorff in order to possess a Haar measure?
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Special cases for efficient enumeration of Hamiltonian paths on grid graphs?
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Fundamental Examples
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How Does Random Noise Typically Look?
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Why do branches of math vary in proof styles and what category are different branches in?
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Godel’s 1st incompleteness theorem - clarification.
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Pronunciation: Crapo
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Is there a theorem that says that there is always more than one way to “continue a finite sequence”?
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Variation on a matrix game (2)
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Graphs with fractal properties?
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Twin Prime Conjecture Reference
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Mathematical definition of running
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What is the combinatorial intepretation to this identity?
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What practical applications does set theory have?
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Dance battles and de Bruijn sequences
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Upper bound on the area of a midpoint pentagon?
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