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Examples of common false beliefs in mathematics.

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Fundamental Examples

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How To Present Mathematics To Non-Mathematicians?

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Examples where it’s useful to know that a mathematical object belongs to some family of objects

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Is the non-triviality of the algebraic dual of an infinite-dimensional vector space equivalent to the axiom of choice?

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Individual mathematical objects whose study amounts to a (sub)discipline?

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A “mother of all groups”? What kind of structures have “mother of all”s?

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Why is it OK to rely on the Fundamental Theorem of Arithmetic when using Gödel numbering?

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Aren’t “oracle machines” unsound concepts?

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Difference between turnstile and implication

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Aleph 0 as a large cardinal

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How many well orderings of $\aleph_0$ are there?

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Groups and rings which are not sets

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Is there an easy description of the structure of this infinite group?

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Number of transitive models of set theory

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Set Theory and Definability

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Other Ring Structures on $\mathbb{Q}$

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Characterizing forcings that don’t add any dominating reals

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Characterization of infinite paths in graphs

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A problem about posets similar to Suslin’s problem

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Complexity of the statement ‘P is proper’

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Model Theoretic Localization

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Normal measures and Elementary Embeddings

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Tarski’s caracterisation of inaccessible cardinals

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Does a generic normal measure extend the club filter?

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Equivalent definitions of $(M,P)$-genericity

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What do you call a lattice whose meet operation preserves disjointness of subsets?

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Is $sat(I)$ always a regular cardinal?

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Is there a name for the smallest ordinal $\alpha$ such that $X \subseteq \alpha$