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What are some examples of colorful language in serious mathematics papers? [closed]

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dec 16 at 12:27 Gil Kalai 10.7k●6●80●144

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What are some reasonable-sounding statements that are independent of ZFC?

independence-results examples set-theory lo.logic big-list

may 9 at 20:36 Santi Spadaro 666●4●6

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Most memorable titles [closed]

writing big-list advice soft-question

mar 1 at 8:26 Gil Kalai 10.7k●6●80●144

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What are the most attractive Turing undecidable problems in mathematics?

computability-theory big-list examples lo.logic

apr 7 at 4:00 Douglas Ulrich 101●6

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What is convolution intuitively?

pr.probability ca.analysis-and-odes intuition

oct 27 at 0:23 Liviu Nicolaescu 11.4k●1●20●33

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Which mathematical ideas have done most to change history? [closed]

soft-question ho.history-overview soft-question

aug 14 at 18:58 marvin 1

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Where is number theory used in the rest of mathematics?

nt.number-theory soft-question

aug 21 at 17:08 Kjetil B Halvorsen 916●4●8

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“Philosophical” meaning of the Yoneda Lemma

ct.category-theory intuition

feb 25 at 13:07 Tom Leinster 13.5k●1●40●82

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How to introduce notions of flat, projective and free modules?

ac.commutative-algebra teaching intuition modules

nov 20 10 at 19:24 roy smith 4,971●34●28

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How would you solve this tantalizing Halmos problem?

ra.rings-and-algebras ac.commutative-algebra noncommutative-algebra lo.logic

jul 14 10 at 20:03 Bill Dubuque 2,168●13●20

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Heuristic argument that finite simple groups _ought_ to be “classifiable”?

finite-groups model-theory soft-question

jun 12 at 11:46 Gil Kalai 10.7k●6●80●144

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Why are the sporadic simple groups HUGE?

gr.group-theory finite-groups soft-question

apr 7 12 at 22:50 Simon Lentner 505●3●9

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Why are powers of $\exp(\pi\sqrt{163})$ almost integers?

nt.number-theory modular-forms class-field-theory

may 18 12 at 9:12 Didier Piau 4,193●1●10●15

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What are the possible sets of degrees of irreducible polynomials over a field?

fields nt.number-theory galois-theory

dec 15 10 at 19:41 Gjergji Zaimi 37.5k●2●72●149

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Approaches to Riemann hypothesis using methods outside number theory [closed]

analytic-number-theory nt.number-theory big-list

dec 14 at 15:12 RH 105●1●9