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Igor Pak
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Careers advice for Ph.D.s without current postdocs or university jobs

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5/8 bound in group theory

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What are some examples of interesting uses of the theory of combinatorial species?

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Oneupsmanship and Publishing Etiquette

41 votes

What are the external triumphs of matroid theory?

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When your paper makes a borderline case for a top journal

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Is discrete mathematics mainstream?

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What is the oldest open problem in mathematics?

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Do you read the masters?

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When is it appropriate to entitle a paper "A note on..." or "On the ..."?

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When does every point in a polytope lie along a chord between its edges?

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Theorems with unexpected conclusions

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Math paper authors' order

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What can be tiled by T-tetrominoes?

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What (if anything) happened to Viennot's theory of Heaps of pieces?

23 votes

The Discrete Hairy-Ball Theorem

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Classification of Platonic solids

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Making an intuition precise

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Why are we interested in permutahedra, associahedra, cyclohedra, ...?

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Mathematics as a hobby

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Random Alternating Permutations

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How does an academic mathematician educate him/herself about job opportunities outside academia?

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What are examples of mathematical concepts named after the wrong people? (Stigler's law)

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Quick proofs of hard theorems

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Triangulations of polyhedra

20 votes

How do I fix someone's published error?

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Factors of p-1 when p is prime.

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Tetrahedra with prescribed face angles

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Bijective proof for a partition identity

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Intuitive crutches for higher dimensional thinking

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