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Proofs that require fundamentally new ways of thinking

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Demonstrating that rigour is important

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Generalizing a problem to make it easier

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Are there any very hard unknots?

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Has mathoverflow yet led to mathematical breakthroughs? [closed]

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Can infinity shorten proofs a lot?

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What could be some potentially useful mathematical databases?

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Theorems that are ‘obvious’ but hard to prove (2)
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Memorizing theorems
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Switching Research Fields
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Books you would like to read (if somebody would just write them…)
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Interpreting the Famous Five equation
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Knuth’s intuition that Goldbach might be unprovable
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Why is differentiating mechanics and integration art?
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Example of a good Zero Knowledge Proof.
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Ingenuity in mathematics
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Experimental Mathematics (2)
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What are some reasonable-sounding statements that are independent of ZFC?
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What’s so great about blackboards?
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Why do we care about L^p spaces besides p = 1, p = 2, and p = infinity?
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What are the most misleading alternate definitions in taught mathematics?
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Pedagogical question about linear algebra
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Which journals publish expository work?
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Is discrete mathematics mainstream?
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Series whose convergence is not known
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Erdos Conjecture on arithmetic progressions
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Slick ways to make annoying verifications (2)
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Intuitive crutches for higher dimensional thinking
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Examples of undergraduate mathematics separation from what mathematicians should know
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What Are Some Naturally-Occurring High-Degree Polynomials?
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What is Realistic Mathematics?
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What are some fundamental “sources” for the appearance of pi in mathematics?
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Different ways of proving that two sets are equal
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Is there any geometry where the triangle inquality fails?
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Published results: when to take them for granted?
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Supervenience in mathematics (2)
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Can a mathematical definition be wrong?
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