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Examples of common false beliefs in mathematics. (2)
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Demonstrating that rigour is important
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Fields of mathematics that were dormant for a long time until someone revitalized them (2)
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What is Lagrange Inversion good for?
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Good differential equations text for undergraduates who want to become pure mathematicians
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How would you solve this tantalizing Halmos problem?
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Is there an underlying explanation for the magical powers of the Schwarzian derivative?
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Perron-Frobenius “inverse eigenvalue problem”
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Jokes in the sense of Littlewood: examples?
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Which pair of mathematicians has the most joint papers? (2)
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What are some correct results discovered with incorrect (or no) proofs?
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Classical mechanics motivation for poisson manifolds?
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Major mathematical advances past age fifty
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Need help proving that $\sum\limits_{j=0}^{k-1}(-1)^{j+1}(k-j)^{2k-2} \binom{2k+1}{j} \ge 0$
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Expressing adj(A) as a polynomial in A?
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Why do we teach calculus students the derivative as a limit?
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to test equivalence of representations under automorphism
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Does the image of a differential operator always contain an ideal?
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The Simply Connected Subgroups of GLn(C)?
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How do you find out the latest news in fields other than your own?
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Fastest Rolling Shape?
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Practical applications of algebraic number theory?
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Can any triangle be inscribed in any convex figure?
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How to show the matrix exponential is onto? And, how to create a powerseries for log that works outside B(I,1)
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Which tensor fields on a symplectic manifold are invariant under all Hamiltonian vector fields?
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Counterexamples in Algebra? (2)
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How to decompose a composition of representations?
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Good papers/books/essays about the thought process behind mathematical research
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Involutions in GL_n(Z)
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Iterated Circumcircle
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