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Proofs that require fundamentally new ways of thinking
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Examples of common false beliefs in mathematics. (3)
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Examples of seemingly elementary problems that are hard to solve?
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Not especially famous, long-open problems which anyone can understand
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Statistics for mathematicians
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Most memorable titles (4)
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Why are so few operations with arity bigger than 2?
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Famous mathematicians with background in arts/humanities/law etc
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How misleading is it to regard $\frac{dy}{dx}$ as a fraction?
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Most intricate and most beautiful structures in mathematics
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Jokes in the sense of Littlewood: examples?
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Why do we teach calculus students the derivative as a limit?
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Extremely messy proofs
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What should be offered in undergraduate mathematics that’s currently not (or isn’t usually)? (3)
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Writing “Semi-Formal” Proofs
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What is convolution intuitively?
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Are all probabilities conditional probabilities?
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History of Irrationality results
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Mathematical ideas named after places
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German mathematical terms like “Nullstellensatz”
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Dimensional Analysis in Mathematics
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Colloquial catchy statements encoding serious mathematics
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What do named “tricks” share? (2)
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Proofs of the uncountability of the reals.
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Brownian bridge interpreted as Brownian motion on the circle
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“Uniform probability” on a set of naturals
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Advanced Math Jokes
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effective teaching
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What should we teach to liberal arts students who will take only one math course?
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In set theories where Continuum Hypothesis is false, what are the new sets?
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