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Proofs that require fundamentally new ways of thinking (2)
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Why do we teach calculus students the derivative as a limit?
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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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Mathematical “urban legends” (2)
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Do good math jokes exist?
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How has “what every mathematician should know” changed?
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Why is a topology made up of ‘open’ sets?
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Too old for advanced mathematics?
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Where does a math person go to learn quantum mechanics?
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Writing papers in pre-LaTeX era?
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Why is cotangent more canonical than tangent?
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What is the Implicit Function Theorem good for?
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Why are matrices ubiquitous but hypermatrices rare?
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What would you want to see at the Museum of Mathematics?
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Why can’t there be a general theory of nonlinear PDE? (2)
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Does Physics need non-analytic smooth functions?
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Is there any proof that you feel you do not “understand”?
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What are good non-English languages for mathematicians to know?
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Reference letters for teaching positions
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Physicist’s request for intuition on covariant derivatives and Lie derivatives
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Switching Research Fields
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Why should I prefer bundles to (surjective) submersions?
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Anything going on for a mathematician stuck at New York?
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Major mathematical advances past age fifty
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Sheaves and bundles in differential geometry
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How seriously should a graduate student take teaching evaluations?
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Cite articles or book where I first found the result?
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Is it possible to get another math PhD
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Why should one still teach Riemann integration?
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