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Is the notation $f(x)$ “deprecated by professional mathematicians” (as claimed by Wolfram)? (2)
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Why is a topology made up of ‘open’ sets?
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A Book You Would Like to Write
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What should be offered in undergraduate mathematics that’s currently not (or isn’t usually)? (2)
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How to select a journal? (7)
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Categories First Or Categories Last In Basic Algebra?
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Is a free alternative to MathSciNet possible?
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Why do we teach calculus students the derivative as a limit?
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Published results: when to take them for granted?
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“Why the heck are the homotopy groups of the sphere so damn complicated?”
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Typo/grammar checker for LaTeX
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Why is the gradient normal?
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When and how is it appropriate for an undergraduate to email a professor out of the blue?
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When is something too big to be a set?
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The role of completeness in Hilbert Spaces
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Fundamental group of Lie groups
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What proportion of math papers are collaborative?
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What examples of distributions should I keep in mind?
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Blackboard rendering of math fonts (2)
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Infinite matrices
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Why is the x->x^1/3 atlas on R diffeomorphic with the x->x atlas on R?
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What category without initial object do you care about?
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Digital Pen for Math: Your Experiences?
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Fundamental group as topological group
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How do you show that $S^{\infty}$ is contractible?
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Handling arXiv feeds to avoid duplicates
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Periods and commas in mathematical writing
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In what sense are fields an algebraic theory?
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Does homology have a coproduct?
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`Naturally occuring' $K(\pi, n)$ spaces, for $n \geq 2$.
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