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Mathematical “urban legends” [closed]

jan 14 12 at 18:38 Pietro Majer 19.7k12469

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

nov 15 at 3:21 Feldmann Denis 1,768215

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whence commutative diagrams?

mar 25 11 at 1:11 KConrad 17k361117

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size of smallest generating set of a group

jul 16 at 11:49 Aakumadula 2,8851513

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Conformal embedding of Riemann surfaces into 3-space

feb 1 11 at 19:45 Kevin Lin 12.9k233115

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Inner? Automorphisms

jun 11 at 4:19 Igor Rivin 31.2k33771

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symmetric integer matrices

jul 20 11 at 0:17 Igor Rivin 31.2k33771

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Physicist’s request for intuition on covariant derivatives and Lie derivatives

jan 3 12 at 19:59 Liviu Nicolaescu 11.4k12033

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A four-dimensional counterexample?

jul 4 11 at 9:49 Misha Kapovich 611

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Statistics of Extended GCD

jan 29 11 at 7:16 Aaron Meyerowitz 11.6k11031

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