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Learning through guided discovery
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Who coined the name tensor and why?
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Canonical examples of algebraic structures
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Is symplectic reduction interesting from a physical point of view?
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Work of ICM 2010 plenary speakers (and other humans)
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Adaptive controllers for stiff ODE and DAE integrators
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Birkhoff conjecture about integrable billiards
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Major mathematical advances past age fifty
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What kind of uniqueness can I conclude for solutions to a simple functional equation?
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What are examples of mathematical concepts named after the wrong people? (Stigler’s law)
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Biographic Data/Stories about André Néron
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candidate for rigorous _mathematical_ definition of “canonical”?
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What is so “spectral” about spectral sequences?
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How to figure out the type of the bifurcation in a dynamical system?
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Real-world applications of mathematics, by arxiv subject area?
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How important are publications for undergrads?
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Zeta function for curves in a manifold
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How do I make the conceptual transition from multivariable calculus to differential forms?
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Magic trick based on deep mathematics
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Equations for Integrable Systems
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How many mathematicians are there?
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Colloquial catchy statements encoding serious mathematics (2)
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Mathematicians who were late learners?-list
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Intuition for the last step in Serre’s proof of the three-squares theorem
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Where does a math person go to learn quantum mechanics?
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Where can I learn about (the asymptotics of) Toeplitz operators?
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Hamiltonian S^1 actions with isolated fixed points
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Is a smooth closed surface in Euclidean 3-space rigid?
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Helm’s improvement to Beck-Fiala theorem
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How is tropicalization like taking the classical limit?