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Igor Rivin
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118 votes

Why do roots of polynomials tend to have absolute value close to 1?

94 votes

Mathematical "urban legends"

76 votes

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

73 votes

Mathematical "urban legends"

65 votes

Mathematical "urban legends"

46 votes

Getting nervous refereeing a paper

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Could the Riemann zeta function be a solution for a known differential equation?

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To which extent can one recover a manifold from its group of homeomorphisms

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Unusual symmetries of the Cayley-Menger determinant for the volume of tetrahedra

38 votes

What are some very important papers published in non-top journals?

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Can every Lie group be realized as the full isometry group of a Riemannian manifold?

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Is this 1974 claim still valid?

26 votes

Why should I care about the Jones polynomial?

25 votes

Thurston's "tinker toy" problem

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How are eigenvalues and eigenvectors affected by adding the all-ones matrix?

23 votes

Conjugacy classes of $\mathrm{SL}_2(\mathbb{Z})$

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Existence of Rational Orthogonal Matrices

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Which closed orientable $4$-dimensional manifolds cannot be embedded in $6$-space?

21 votes

Approachable French masters

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Which affiliation to use when publishing, when invited professor at second university

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A manifold is a homotopy type and _what_ extra structure?

20 votes

Most manifolds are hyperbolic?

20 votes

Web interface for GAP (or other computer algebra system dealing with finite groups)?

20 votes

Questions on J. F. Nash's answer about his errors in the proof of embedding theorem

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Random links and $3$-manifolds

19 votes

Are most Kähler manifolds non-projective?

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Why is there a unique hyperbolic simplex of largest area?

18 votes

Computer science for mathematicians

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Is there a combinatorial analogue of Ricci flow?

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Why are Fuchsian groups interesting?

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