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How are infinite-dimensional manifolds most commonly treated?

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Daan Michiels

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Are there any interesting surreal constants?

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Learning about Lie groups

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A refinement of Serre's finiteness theorem on unstable homotopy groups of spheres

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Explaining the main ideas of proof before giving details

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Mean minimum distance for N random points on a one-dimensional line

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How to add essentially new knots to the universe?

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Is the cohomology ring of a finite group computable?

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Joshua Grochow

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Reference request for translating from Top to C*-alg

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Matthew Daws

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Is there a mathematical book on general relativity that uses exclusively a coordinate free language even in practical computations?

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Does the moduli space of smooth curves of genus g contain an elliptic curve

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Papers in which the questions were more interesting than the results

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Robert Palmer

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On the probability of the truth of the continuum hypothesis

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Is the Riemann zeta function surjective?

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Rolle's theorem in n dimensions

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Is there a position in infinite Go for which the life of a particular stone has transfinite game value?

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Christopher King

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Which is the correct version of a quantum group at a root of unity?

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Peter McNamara

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Can't one walk to infinity on the prime numbers with finitely many distinct affine steps?

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Stefan Kohl♦

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The Origin(s) of Modular and Moduli

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$\mathbb{E}[X^4]=1$, $X,Y$ iid, what's the best upper bound of $\mathbb{E}[(X-Y)^4]$?

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Chen Dan

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What does the classifying space of a category classify?

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Don Stanley

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Reference book for commutative algebra

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Does the Brouwer fixed point theorem admit a constructive proof?

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coudy

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Are there any integers which can't be written as a sum of two fourth powers minus a cube?

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Contemporary philosophy of mathematics

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Jörg Neunhäuserer

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There are $n$ horses. At a time only $k$ horses can run in a single race. What is the minimum number of races required to find the $m$ fastest horses?

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Debanjan Chanda

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Diplomacy when reporting errors

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A game of plates and olives

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Liviu Nicolaescu

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PhD dissertations that solve an established open problem

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Alice and Bob playing on a circle

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Intuition behind the Eichler-Shimura relation?

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Qiaochu Yuan

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Homology of $\mathrm{PGL}_2(F)$

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Peter Scholze

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A “mother of all groups”? What kind of structures have "mother of all"s?

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The_Sympathizer

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Does the symmetric group on an infinite set have a minimal generating set?

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Yann Peresse

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Is it possible to cite a page in n-Lab in a research paper?

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What are the possible singular fibers of an elliptic fibration over a higher dimensional base?

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JME

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A game on integers

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Haoran Chen

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Who wins two player sudoku?

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Christopher King

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Can one "hear" the shape of a polygon via external reflections?

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Joseph O'Rourke

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What is a simplicial commutative ring from the point of view of homotopy theory?

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Akhil Mathew

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$\binom{x}{2}+\binom{x}{4}+\cdots+\binom{x}{2u}$ is a convex function on $[0,+\infty)$?

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Anyu

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Which journals allow authors to retain copyright...?

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Camilo Sarmiento

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What is the Zariski topology good/bad for?

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Good user manuals for technical topics?

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Hailong Dao

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What are good articles/books on the psychology of mathematical research?

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Regular, Gorenstein and Cohen-Macaulay

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Ehsan M. Kermani

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Has there been a computer search for a 5-chromatic unit distance graph?

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Overview of the interplay of Harmonic Analysis and Number Theory

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Jon Bannon

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Are the Sierpiński cardinal $\acute{\mathfrak n}$ and its measure modification $\acute{\mathfrak m}$ equal to some known small uncountable cardinals?

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Taras Banakh

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Can Gröbner bases be used to compute solutions to large, real-world problems?

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Who wins this two-player game based on the sandpile model?

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JBL

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When to publish minor results?

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The Frobenius morphism

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Do random projections (approximately) preserve convexity?

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Cecil B

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What (fun) results in graph theory should undergraduates learn?

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user62562

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Software for rational homotopy theory

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Paolo Salvatore

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Visibility of vertices in polyhedra

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What’s the etiquette on using diagrams that need color to be understood?

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GMB

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On the polynomial $\sum_{k=0}^n\binom{n}{k}(-1)^kX^{k(n-k)}$

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origin of spectral sequences in algebraic topology

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