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How can simple physical “proofs” of mathematical facts be made rigorous?

sep 16 10 at 11:31 Igor Khavkine 3,108●1●10●18

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Is there a “finitary” solution to the Basel problem?

dec 21 09 at 19:23 Scott Morrison♦ 4,460●4●26●44

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What are the most overloaded words in mathematics? [closed]

jun 21 10 at 5:12 Jesse Madnick 299●1●6●14

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What’s the analogue of the Hilbert class field in the following analogy?

jan 6 10 at 22:50 Pete L. Clark 39.6k●3●102●226

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Is the statement that every field has an algebraic closure known to be equivalent to the ultrafilter lemma?

nov 20 10 at 12:01 Joel David Hamkins 75.5k●8●188●346

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The Riemann zeta function and Haar measure on the profinite integers

nov 21 10 at 1:35 Simon Lyons 888●6●15

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Resources for graphical languages / Penrose notation / Feynman diagrams / birdtracks?

aug 31 10 at 18:22 anonymous 1●1

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What’s the relationship between Gauss sums and the normal distribution?

jan 13 10 at 11:34 MathOverflow♦ 1●2●3

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Reference request: a conjecture of Rota on positive functions of a random variable

sep 21 at 14:42 Abdelmalek Abdesselam 2,251●4●17

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Number theory textbook based on the absolute Galois group?

feb 12 10 at 8:33 Franz Lemmermeyer 17.2k●1●38●101

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