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Examples of common false beliefs in mathematics.
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Mathematical “urban legends” (2)
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Awfully sophisticated proof for simple facts
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What are the most misleading alternate definitions in taught mathematics?
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Colloquial catchy statements encoding serious mathematics
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Which popular games are the most mathematical?
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What is your favorite “strange” function? (2)
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Ideas on how to prevent a department from being shut down.
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Describe a topic in one sentence. (2)
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Computer Algebra Errors
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Most ‘unintuitive’ application of the Axiom of Choice?
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What are examples of mathematical concepts named after the wrong people? (Stigler’s law) (2)
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Math paper authors' order
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Blackbox Theorems
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Different ways of proving that two sets are equal
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Why do we care about L^p spaces besides p = 1, p = 2, and p = infinity?
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Submitting to arXiv when unaffiliated
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Why do probabilists take random variables to be Borel (and not Lebesgue) measurable?
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Proof synopsis collection
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Slick ways to make annoying verifications
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Fourier transform of Analytic Functions
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Version of the Poincaré Inequality
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Examples of non-metrizable spaces
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Counterexample for the Open Mapping Theorem
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Mathematical ideas named after places (2)
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Expectation of time integral of Wiener process
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Approximation with continuous functions
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Down-To-Earth Uses of de Rham Cohomology to Convince a Wide Audience of its Usefulness
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When does ‘positive’ imply ‘sum of squares’?
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What do named “tricks” share?
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