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15 votes

Induction vs. Strong Induction

5 votes

Simultaneous rational approximation of two reals using their continued fractions

37 votes

What is Realistic Mathematics?

1 vote

Questions about normal numbers

18 votes

Slick ways to make annoying verifications

7 votes

Slick ways to make annoying verifications

22 votes

Non-Borel sets without axiom of choice

26 votes

explicit big linearly independent sets

5 votes

A probability question related to extremal combinatorics

37 votes

Can a mathematical definition be wrong?

61 votes

Why do we care about $L^p$ spaces besides $p = 1$, $p = 2$, and $p = \infty$?

8 votes

Examples of statements that provably can't be proved using a promising looking method

7 votes

Examples of statements that provably can't be proved using a promising looking method

3 votes

Upper bound for the number of subsets of N points which exhaust their convex hull

126 votes

Knuth's intuition that Goldbach might be unprovable

6 votes

Applications of compactness

12 votes
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Upper bound for the number of subsets of N points which exhaust their convex hull

10 votes

What's a nice argument that shows the volume of the unit ball in $\mathbb R^n$ approaches 0?

6 votes

Does the Axiom of Choice (or any other "optional" set theory axiom) have real-world consequences?

9 votes

A question about fields of real numbers

26 votes

What Are Some Naturally-Occurring High-Degree Polynomials?

18 votes

Why is Fourier analysis so handy for proving the isoperimetric inequality?

76 votes

Interpreting the Famous Five equation

6 votes

Papers that debunk common myths in the history of mathematics

50 votes

Why is the Hahn-Banach theorem so important?

4 votes

Can we color Z^+ with n colors such that a, 2a, ..., na all have different colors for all a?

58 votes

Intuitive crutches for higher dimensional thinking

16 votes

Naive questions about "matrices" representing endomorphisms of Hilbert spaces.

4 votes

Making N (set of all positive integers) a group

41 votes

Erdos Conjecture on arithmetic progressions