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Geodesics on SO(3)
Awarded Apr 5 at 19:40
Walking to infinity on the primes: The prime-spiral moat problem
Awarded Feb 29 at 17:10
Why does the gamma function use the symbol $\Gamma(\,)$?
Awarded Feb 8 at 5:18
Limit of distance between two random points in a unit $n$-cube
Awarded Nov 24, 2023 at 16:15
Primes that are the sum of three squares
Awarded Oct 23, 2023 at 18:27
3-piece dissection of square to equilateral triangle?
Awarded Sep 27, 2023 at 1:26
{transcendental numbers} \ {computable transcendental numbers}
Awarded Sep 5, 2023 at 2:49
Tiling the plane with incongruent isosceles triangles
Awarded Apr 30, 2023 at 16:16
Oloid and sphericon: rolling develops entire surface
Awarded Apr 23, 2023 at 21:49
Probing a manifold with geodesics
Awarded Jan 24, 2023 at 4:20
Computational complexity of finding the smallest number with n factors
Awarded Nov 18, 2022 at 13:20
Languages beyond enumerable
Awarded Nov 14, 2022 at 3:41
Generalization of winding number to higher dimensions
Awarded Oct 11, 2022 at 18:47
Shortest-path Distances Determining the Metric?
Awarded Sep 10, 2022 at 20:17
What's that shape? Inferring a 3D shape from random shadows
Awarded Jul 11, 2022 at 9:33
Shortest grid-graph paths with random diagonal shortcuts
Awarded Feb 13, 2022 at 16:40
In what sense is SL(2,q) "very far from abelian"?
Awarded Jan 20, 2022 at 23:11
Surfaces filled densely by a geodesic
Awarded Nov 17, 2021 at 15:32
3D models of the unfoldings of the hypercube?
Awarded Oct 11, 2021 at 14:43
Torus minimizer of Willmore energy
Awarded Jun 15, 2021 at 19:16
Are there smooth bodies of constant width?
Awarded May 22, 2021 at 14:26
Which unfoldings of the hypercube tile 3-space: How to check for isometric space-fillers?
Awarded May 16, 2021 at 4:27
Distribution of roots of complex polynomials
Awarded Feb 5, 2021 at 17:18
Catenary curve under non-uniform gravitational field
Awarded Aug 21, 2020 at 16:03
Not all manifolds can be triangulated: In which dimensions?
Awarded Jun 23, 2020 at 10:55
Billiard dynamics under gravity
Awarded Apr 23, 2020 at 15:45
Conway's lesser-known results
Awarded Apr 13, 2020 at 1:10
Generalizing square wheels rolling on inverted catenaries
Awarded Mar 3, 2020 at 10:35
Shortest closed curve to inspect a sphere
Awarded Feb 22, 2020 at 7:50
Higher-dimensional Catalan numbers?
Awarded Jan 22, 2020 at 17:30
Functions whose gradient-descent paths are geodesics
Awarded Jan 14, 2020 at 10:55
What is the analog of the "Fundamental Theorem of Space Curves," for surfaces, and beyond?
Awarded Dec 11, 2019 at 3:50
Which high-degree derivatives play an essential role?
Awarded Jun 30, 2019 at 21:00
Prime square offsets: Why is +7 more frequent than -7?
Awarded Jun 17, 2019 at 13:40
What fraction of the integer lattice can be seen from the origin?
Awarded Jun 5, 2019 at 9:35
Meta$^{n{-}th}$ mathematics [duplicate]
Awarded Apr 29, 2019 at 15:20
Theorems that impeded progress
Awarded Apr 5, 2019 at 16:55
Measures of non-abelian-ness
Awarded Apr 3, 2019 at 14:15
Gaussian primes, quaternion primes, ... octonions?
Awarded Feb 19, 2019 at 2:35
Do bubbles between plates approximate Voronoi diagrams?
Awarded Feb 13, 2019 at 1:40
Which polynomial's roots are its coefficients?
Awarded Jan 27, 2019 at 17:20
Six yolks in a bowl: Why not optimal circle packing? [closed]
Awarded Jan 21, 2019 at 14:20
Convex hull on a Riemannian manifold
Awarded Sep 28, 2018 at 5:15
Why is the Frankl conjecture hard?
Awarded Aug 12, 2018 at 6:25
"Long-standing conjectures in analysis ... often turn out to be false"
Awarded Jul 27, 2018 at 1:25
How to explain the concentration-of-measure phenomenon intuitively?
Awarded Jun 13, 2018 at 20:31
Can one "hear" the shape of a polygon via external reflections?
Awarded Apr 24, 2018 at 20:37
Kervaire invariant: Why dimension 126 especially difficult?
Awarded Dec 31, 2017 at 8:06
Why do we use $\varepsilon$ and $\delta$?
Awarded Sep 11, 2017 at 8:29
Does there exist a shot in ideal pocket billiards?
Awarded Sep 8, 2017 at 16:17
Why so difficult to prove infinitely many restricted primes?
Awarded Aug 8, 2017 at 6:48
When has discrete understanding preceded continuous?
Awarded May 30, 2017 at 15:03
The view from inside of a mirrored tetrahedron
Awarded Apr 5, 2017 at 19:34
Thurston's 24 questions: All settled?
Awarded Mar 30, 2017 at 21:44
Fastest Rolling Shape?
Awarded Jan 7, 2017 at 22:14
Surface equivalent of catenary curve
Awarded Oct 12, 2016 at 18:50
Rational points on a sphere in $\mathbb{R}^d$
Awarded Sep 8, 2016 at 9:39
Hanging a ball with string
Awarded Sep 7, 2016 at 23:22
Are overlaps among {algebraic geometry, arithmetic geometry, algebraic number theory} growing?
Awarded Aug 30, 2016 at 14:16
Proof that no differentiable space-filling curve exists
Awarded Jul 27, 2016 at 11:44
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