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Titles composed entirely of math symbols

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Are there refuted analogues of the Riemann hypothesis?

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Exploding primes

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A question about MathSciNet etiquette

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Criteria for irreducibility of polynomial

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A geometric series equalling a power of an integer

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Interesting result on the Euler-Maschroni constant - what is the background?

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What’s so “schematic” about schemes?

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Why is a ring called a “ring”?

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Cyclotomic polynomials with coefficients $0,\pm1$

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Who wrote up Banach’s Thesis?

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Area Enclosed by the Convex Hull of a Set of Random Points

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prime numbers and Pythagorean triplets

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Effect of abc conjecture on Fermat’s Last Theorem

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Why did Bourbaki ignore the theory of categories?

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Useless math that became useful

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Finding lots of discrete vectors in fairly general position

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Any progress on the Firoozbakht Conjecture?

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What does “composé direct” mean in mathematical French?

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What are the lengths that can be constructed with straightedge but without compass?

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Is this a “folk theorem” about analytic functions of a complex variable?

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What is the theoretical interest of finding closed-form sols. of infinite series?

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At what times were people interested in prime numbers

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Why do mathematicians prefer one definition over the other when they both define the same concept?

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Is this equivalent to Goldbach’s conjecture?

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How to be updated with current advances in mathematics

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How to resolve a disagreement about a mathematical proof?

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Comparables to Journal of Algebra, Journal of Pure and Applied Algebra

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Profinite completion

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The half-life of a theorem, or Arnold’s principle at work