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Mathematical “urban legends” (2)
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Do good math jokes exist?
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Too old for advanced mathematics?
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Why do we teach calculus students the derivative as a limit?
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Undergraduate Level Math Books
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Why is a topology made up of ‘open’ sets?
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Where does a math person go to learn quantum mechanics?
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Proofs that require fundamentally new ways of thinking (2)
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Why should one still teach Riemann integration?
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Why were matrix determinants once such a big deal?
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Extremely messy proofs
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Memorizing theorems
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What would you want to see at the Museum of Mathematics?
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Most intricate and most beautiful structures in mathematics
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How do I make the conceptual transition from multivariable calculus to differential forms?
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Careers advice for Ph.D.s without current postdocs or university jobs
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How hard is it to get tenure in mathematics?
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Major mathematical advances past age fifty
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How To Present Mathematics To Non-Mathematicians?
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Why is differentiating mechanics and integration art?
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Why do so many textbooks have so much technical detail and so little enlightenment?
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why study Lie algebras?
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What are good non-English languages for mathematicians to know?
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Geodesics on spheres are great circles
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Reading list for basic differential geometry?
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What are some famous rejections of correct mathematics?
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What is torsion in differential geometry intuitively?
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What is the Implicit Function Theorem good for?
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How does an academic mathematician educate him/herself about job opportunities outside academia?
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Research statement in PhD applications--how much is too much?
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