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Examples of common false beliefs in mathematics. (3)
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Most memorable titles (4)
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Why do we teach calculus students the derivative as a limit?
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Why is a topology made up of ‘open’ sets?
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Proofs that require fundamentally new ways of thinking
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Colloquial catchy statements encoding serious mathematics
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What is convolution intuitively?
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Jokes in the sense of Littlewood: examples?
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Free, high quality mathematical writing online? (2)
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Why should one still teach Riemann integration?
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Not especially famous, long-open problems which anyone can understand
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Pseudonyms of famous mathematicians
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What should be offered in undergraduate mathematics that’s currently not (or isn’t usually)? (3)
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Extremely messy proofs
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Most intricate and most beautiful structures in mathematics
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Generalizing a problem to make it easier
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What notions are used but not clearly defined in modern mathematics?
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Demystifying complex numbers
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Is square of Delta function defined somewhere?
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German mathematical terms like “Nullstellensatz”
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Statistics for mathematicians
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Papers that debunk common myths in the history of mathematics
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What should we teach to liberal arts students who will take only one math course?
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Examples of seemingly elementary problems that are hard to solve?
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Why is the Gamma function shifted from the factorial by 1?
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Famous mathematicians with background in arts/humanities/law etc
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Good books on theory of distributions
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Sexy vacuity …
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Direct proof of irrationality?
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Proofs of the uncountability of the reals.
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