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Examples of common false beliefs in mathematics. (3)

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Mathematical “urban legends” (2)

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Mathematicians who were late learners?-list

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Awfully sophisticated proof for simple facts

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Most memorable titles

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Why do we teach calculus students the derivative as a limit?

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Thinking and Explaining

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Theorems that are ‘obvious’ but hard to prove

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Jokes in the sense of Littlewood: examples?

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Which popular games are the most mathematical?

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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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Why were matrix determinants once such a big deal?

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What would you want to see at the Museum of Mathematics?

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Examples of interesting false proofs

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Why is differentiating mechanics and integration art?

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Is square of Delta function defined somewhere?

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German mathematical terms like “Nullstellensatz”

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Where is number theory used in the rest of mathematics? (2)

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Never appeared forthcoming papers

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Fiction books about mathematicians? (3)

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Fast Matrix Multiplication

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What is the Implicit Function Theorem good for?

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Old books still used

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Blackbox Theorems

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Notable mathematics during World War II

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The concept of Duality

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How do you decide whether a question in abstract algebra is worth studying?

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Applications of Brouwer’s fixed point theorem

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Is there a nice application of category theory to functional/complex/harmonic analysis?