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Did Emmy Noether ever publish under a man’s name?

mar 28 12 at 23:28 Will Jagy 12.5k●1●26●45

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Theorems first published in textbooks?

dec 31 10 at 5:38 Joël 9,459●19●52

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Are there uncountably many cube-free infinite binary words?

aug 19 11 at 5:51 James Currie 475●4●8

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Is there a non-trivial knot with trivial Homfly polynomial?

may 25 10 at 0:10 Gerry Myerson 15.6k●1●47●87

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Small pairs a, b, every integer up to k dividing at least one of them

jun 3 at 4:53 Douglas Zare 13.1k●3●36●58

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Magic square on an infinite lattice

jan 27 11 at 0:40 Qiaochu Yuan 38.3k●5●116●301

 

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The phenomena of eventual counterexamples (4)
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Mathematical “urban legends” (2)
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Counterexamples in Algebra? (7)
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Jokes in the sense of Littlewood: examples? (3)
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Never appeared forthcoming papers (2)
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Blackbox Theorems (3)
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Pseudonyms of famous mathematicians (11)
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Awfully sophisticated proof for simple facts
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Properties of natural numbers such that there is a “very large largest” number with that property (8)
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If 2^x and 3^x are integers, must x be as well? (2)
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Does pi contain 1000 consecutive zeroes (in base 10)?
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How to prove that every real number is a zero of some power series with rational coefficients (if true)
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Most memorable titles (2)
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Which mathematicians have influenced you the most? (4)
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If Erdős is published as Erdös in a paper, which do I cite?
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Widely accepted mathematical results that were later shown wrong? (4)
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The half-life of a theorem, or Arnold’s principle at work (2)
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Mathematicians failing to solve problems despite having all methods required
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What’s an example of a transcendental power series?
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Extremely messy proofs (2)
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Integers in a triangle, and differences
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How has “what every mathematician should know” changed?
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algebraic numbers of degree 3 and 6, whose sum has degree 12
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How to tell if two random polynomials are identical
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Examples of theorems misapplied to non-mathematical contexts
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Elementary Number Theory Text from a Categorical Perspective
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Totally rational polytopes
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What recent discoveries have amateur mathematicians made?
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sum of the reciprocal of the primes squared
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Are there situations when regarding isomorphic objects as identical leads to mistakes?
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