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Carlo Beenakker

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How can a mathematician handle the pressure to discover something new?

Mar 11, 2018

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Are there any serious investigations of whether "mathematicians do their best work when they're young"?

Jan 2, 2015

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PhD dissertations that solve an established open problem

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"Surprising" examples of Markov chains

Oct 20, 2016

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Should water at the scale of a cell feel more like tar?

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Correspondence between eigenvalue distributions of random unitary and random orthogonal matrices

Aug 26, 2012

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Uniquely reconstruct a matrix $M$ from its inverse $M^{-1}$ if $n$ elements of $M^{-1}$ are unknown and $n$ elements of $M$ are given

Oct 22, 2021

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Who is Mrs. Gerber?

Jul 21, 2021

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Implications of the disproof of the "climb-to-a-prime" conjecture

Jun 9, 2017

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Has Nambu's notion of an "eigenoperator" found a place in the mathematical literature?

Sep 5, 2022

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Does the reproducing property of the unitary group Poisson kernel require a multiple of the identity?

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Arnold on Newton's anagram

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How did Ramanujan find $\sum_{n=0}^\infty (-1)^n\frac{(1/2)_n(1/4)_n(3/4)_n}{n!^3}\frac{644n+41}{25920^n}=\frac{288\sqrt{5}}{5\pi}?$

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Should water at the scale of a cell feel more like tar?

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