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Why are parabolic subgroups called “parabolic subgroups”?

may 17 10 at 11:44 Benoît Kloeckner 5,741●18●30

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How do you find out the latest news in fields other than your own?

jun 3 10 at 7:30 Charles Matthews 9,800●13●40

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Motivating the Casimir element

jan 28 at 4:56 Will Sawin 19.4k●1●24●48

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Motivating the de Rham theorem

mar 2 11 at 14:52 Steven Gubkin 6,203●2●26●63

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What is the shortest Ph.D. thesis? [closed]

feb 8 11 at 21:14 Andreas Thom 13.1k●1●23●65

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Name of amateur who gave a new proof of the Ramanujan-Nagell theorem?

jun 5 10 at 9:07 Liran Rotem 79●1●2

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Neutral tic tac toe

jan 9 at 5:45 Thane Plambeck 81●4

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Is there an index for solutions to American Mathematical Monthly problems?

jun 7 10 at 1:10 Jonas Meyer 4,859●1●21●31

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Can Gauss sums derandomize any heuristic arguments?

jul 24 11 at 8:07 unknown (yahoo) 453●2●12

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Salié permutations and fair permutations

nov 28 at 2:37 Richard Stanley 13.6k●2●60●94

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