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Jason Dyer
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211 votes

Proofs without words

84 votes

Most harmful heuristic?

29 votes

Alternatives to pi day

24 votes
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effective teaching

21 votes

If you break a stick at two points chosen uniformly, the probability the three resulting sticks form a triangle is 1/4. Is there a nice proof of this?

15 votes
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How to teach addition of negative numbers?

14 votes
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What is the term analogous to "Wronskian" for difference equations?

14 votes

Why the search for ever larger primes?

11 votes

Are there elementary-school curricula that capture the joy of mathematics?

11 votes

A problem of an infinite number of balls and an urn

11 votes

Twin Prime Conjecture Reference

9 votes

Earliest diagonal proof of the uncountability of the reals.

7 votes
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Must a locally compact group be Hausdorff in order to possess a Haar measure?

7 votes

What practical applications does set theory have?

7 votes

Pronunciation: Crapo

6 votes

Name of the Marshall Hall paper in which he proved that the intersection of all subgroups of a fixed finite index is again finite index?

6 votes

Just starting with [combinatorial] game theory

6 votes

Fundamental Examples

5 votes
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Special cases for efficient enumeration of Hamiltonian paths on grid graphs?

4 votes

Is there a theorem that says that there is always more than one way to "continue a finite sequence"?

4 votes

Graphs with fractal properties?

4 votes

Godel's 1st incompleteness theorem - clarification.

4 votes

How Does Random Noise Typically Look?

3 votes

Why do branches of math vary in proof styles and what category are different branches in?

3 votes

Dance battles and de Bruijn sequences

3 votes

Variation on a matrix game

2 votes

Upper bound on the area of a midpoint pentagon?

2 votes

Is there a combinatorial interpretation of the identity $\sum_{k=0}^m 2^{-2k} \binom{2k}{k} \binom{2m-k}{m} =4^{-m} \binom{4m+1}{2m}$?

1 vote

Polygon Chain - Conversion to non-crossing while preserving shape?

1 vote

nonstandard set theories