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Francois Ziegler
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History of "without loss of generality"

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Nonequivalent definitions in Mathematics

67 votes

Parodies of abstruse mathematical writing

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17 camels trick

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Which high-degree derivatives play an essential role?

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Is the boundary $\partial S$ analogous to a derivative?

53 votes

whence commutative diagrams?

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History of $\frac d{dt}\tan^{-1}(t)=\frac 1{1+t^2}$

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Did Leibniz really get the Leibniz rule wrong?

47 votes

What recent programmes to alter highly-entrenched mathematical terminology have succeeded, and under what conditions do they tend to succeed or fail?

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Explicit eigenvalues of the Laplacian

36 votes

When was the "arrow notation" for functions first introduced?

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Etymology of "exterior" in "exterior calculus"

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whence commutative diagrams?

32 votes
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The letter $\wp$; Name & origin?

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Famous cases of multiple papers by the same author published in same issue of same journal

30 votes

Have the tides ever turned twice on any open problem?

28 votes

Why all irreducible representations of compact groups are finite-dimensional ? [EDIT: Subtleties: AC,etc]

27 votes

The origin of sets?

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Oldest photographed mathematician

27 votes

Nontrivially fillable gaps in published proofs of major theorems

24 votes

Examples of Mathematical Papers that Contain a Kind of Research Report

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Mathematicians with both “very abstract” and “very applied” achievements

23 votes

First use of term "Hilbert's Nullstellensatz"

22 votes

Citing a published book that does not appear on MathSciNet

22 votes

When exactly and why did matrix multiplication become a part of the undergraduate curriculum?

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Occurrences of (co)homology in other disciplines and/or nature

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Who introduced the terms "equivalence relation" and "equivalence class"?

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Are infinite dimensional Lie algebras related to unique Lie groups?

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Reference request: Oldest calculus, real analysis books with exercises?

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