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Will Jagy
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Why is the Gamma function shifted from the factorial by 1?

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Famous vacuously true statements

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How to read an article and make it actually useful?

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Why do roots of polynomials tend to have absolute value close to 1?

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When should you, and should you not, share your mathematical ideas?

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Is Li(x) the best possible approximation to the prime-counting function?

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Collection of equivalent forms of Riemann Hypothesis

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How do you pronounce "Hartshorne"?

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Does the formal power series solution to $f(f(x))= \sin( x) $ converge?

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Is there a simple way to compute the number of ways to write a positive integer as the sum of three squares?

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What's your favorite equation, formula, identity or inequality?

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A quadratic form represents all primes except for the primes 2 and 11.

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Pair of curves joining opposite corners of a square must intersect---proof?

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What is the lower bound for highly composite numbers?

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Heuristically false conjectures

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Integers represented by the polynomial $a^2+b^3+c^6$

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Underlying structure behind the infamous IMO 1988 Problem 6

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Primes of the form $x^2+ny^2$ and congruences.

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How do you present a non-existence theorem?

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a^b = b^a when a is not equal to b.

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Enumerating ways to decompose an integer into the sum of two squares

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Is there a compass and straightedge construction of parallel lines in hyperbolic geometry?

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Matrix expression for elements of $SO(3)$

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Is there a straightedge and compass construction of incommensurables in the hyperbolic plane?

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What is the "serious" name for the topograph (for a quadratic form)

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When does $axy+byz+czx$ represent all integers?

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Segments of Voronoi Diagrams on smooth manifolds. Are they geodesics?

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Primes and $x^2+2y^2+4z^2$

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Torus minimizer of Willmore energy

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Resultant probability distribution when taking the cosine of gaussian distributed variable

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