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Tom Copeland
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Why is there a connection between enumerative geometry and nonlinear waves?

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When has discrete understanding preceded continuous?

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What are some mathematical sculptures?

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In "splendid isolation"

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Good "casual" advanced math books

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How does one motivate the analytic continuation of the Riemann zeta function?

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Examples of "unsuccessful" theories with afterlives

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Are hypergeometric series not taught often at universities nowadays, and if so, why?

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How are Sheffer polynomials related to Lie theory?

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Cyclotomic polynomials in combinatorics

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In "splendid isolation"

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Understanding a quip from Gian-Carlo Rota

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What does Mellin inversion "really mean"?

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Intuitive explanation why "shadow operator" $\frac D{e^D-1}$ connects logarithms with trigonometric functions?

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What are some of the earliest examples of analytic continuation?

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Can learning Riemann surfaces be more beneficial than numerical analysis for an analyst?

10 votes

Important formulas in combinatorics

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Swimming against the tide in the past century: remarkable achievements that arose in contrast to the general view of mathematicians

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Is there an underlying explanation for the magical powers of the Schwarzian derivative?

9 votes

The concept of duality

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Geometric picture of invariant differential of an elliptic curve

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Are there other nice math books close to the style of Tristan Needham?

8 votes

Ordinary Generating Function for Bell Numbers

8 votes

Why is the Fourier transform so ubiquitous?

8 votes

Applications of number theory in dynamical systems

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A Leibniz-like formula for $(f(x) \frac{d}{dx})^n f(x)$?

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Geometric interpretation of the half-derivative?

7 votes
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Ramanujan's Master Formula: A proof and relation to umbral calculus

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Pochhammer symbol of a differential, and hypergeometric polynomials

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Geometric / physical / probabilistic interpretations of Riemann zeta($n>1$)?

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