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David Feldman
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147 votes

Mathematical "urban legends"

75 votes

Does a referee have to check carefully the proof ?

60 votes

Not especially famous, long-open problems which anyone can understand

32 votes

Mathematical "urban legends"

31 votes

What is the simplest, most elementary proof that a particular number is transcendental?

24 votes

Why is a topology made up of 'open' sets?

23 votes
Accepted

Mazur's unpublished manuscript on primes and knots?

16 votes
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Music: mathematical point of view (revised)

13 votes

Zero-knowledge proof that 0 = 1

11 votes

Why does the Riemann zeta function have non-trivial zeros?

9 votes

probability theory for combinatorialists

9 votes

Not especially famous, long-open problems which anyone can understand

8 votes

Why do we teach calculus students the derivative as a limit?

6 votes

'Important' applications of p-adic numbers outside of algebra (and number theory).

5 votes

Recent work on hypergeometric functions

5 votes

Reference in Riemann Surfaces

4 votes

Strong induction without a base case

4 votes

Statistics of Extended GCD

4 votes

Simple but serious problems for the edification of non-mathematicians

4 votes

On Pseudo-finite topological spaces

4 votes
Accepted

On distances between points on the plane

4 votes

Reference request for Kato's paper: A generalization of local class field theory by using K -groups

3 votes

Good combinatorics textbooks for teaching undergraduates?

3 votes

A generalization of Erdős–Newman–Mirsky?

2 votes
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Conditional probability with permutations

2 votes
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Frames and completeness

2 votes

Can continuity of a function be checked by restricting to smooth curves?

2 votes

Examples of two different descriptions of a set that are not obviously equivalent?

2 votes

What is the simplest, most elementary proof that a particular number is transcendental?

2 votes

Is the set of undecidable problems decidable?