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Douglas Zare
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12 votes

Probability theory and measuring the true strength of chessplayers

1 vote

The maximum in the Poisson problem on the cube with constant source

6 votes

Elements living in the conjugacy class and in the centralizer of an $m$-cycle in $A_m$

166 votes
Accepted

Google question: In a country in which people only want boys

5 votes

Independence of Brownian motion at hitting time from that hitting time

18 votes

Fiction books about mathematicians?

2 votes

Fiction books about mathematicians?

5 votes
Accepted

Limit law for the number of local maxima in a square lattice of IID random variables

6 votes

Theorems with unexpected conclusions

17 votes

Math paper authors' order

48 votes

Which popular games are the most mathematical?

4 votes
Accepted

Reference for an edge-matching problem

6 votes

Sum of $n$ vectors in $(\mathbb Z/n)^k$

2 votes

Card game / options pricing / Brownian bridge question

17 votes

Experimental mathematics leading to major advances

8 votes
Accepted

On the Bell Numbers

46 votes

Examples of theorems misapplied to non-mathematical contexts

5 votes
Accepted

Totally geodesic submanifold of round sphere

19 votes
Accepted

Smallest tile to tessellate the hyperbolic plane

6 votes

Minimum required crossings in a link diagram for a $k$-component Brunnian link

10 votes
Accepted

Infinitely many Brunnian links with bounded crossings

13 votes

An example of a beautiful proof that would be accessible at the high school level?

5 votes
Accepted

What is this matrix decomposition called and does it exist always?

5 votes
Accepted

Minimum probability that two Gaussian random variables are small

11 votes
Accepted

Inter-Kissing Number for Non-Spheres

14 votes

17 camels trick

6 votes
Accepted

Determining Tightness/Overtwistedness of Contact Structure using Lift of Structure to the Universal Cover

22 votes

Can every $\mathbb{Z}^2$ disk be pinball-reached?

4 votes

Has nontrivial solution in positive integers of a diophantine equation: $x_1^2+x_2^2+x_3^2+x_4^2=y_1^2+y_2^2+y_3^2+y_4^2$

2 votes

What is the optimal strategy for participants in this situation?

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