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What are some mathematical sculptures?

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mar 13 11 at 13:55 Colin Reid 2,337●8●14

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Newton and Newton polygon

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sep 9 11 at 15:24 Dave L Renfro 211●4

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opposite Banach space

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oct 26 09 at 19:54 Yemon Choi 8,465●1●19●45

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A calculus question related to quantization dimension

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Pronunciation: Vaughan Jones [closed]

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jul 30 11 at 12:51 Gerald Edgar 15.2k●1●28●67

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What are your favorite instructional counterexamples?

Which mathematicians have influenced you the most?

Which math paper maximizes the ratio (importance)/(length)?

Which journals publish expository work? (2)

Most interesting mathematics mistake?

Is it best to run or walk in the rain?

What is the indefinite sum of tan(x)? (2)

“Closed-form” functions with half-exponential growth

Are there non-reflexive vector spaces isomorphic to their bi-dual?

Blackboard rendering of math fonts

Undergraduate Level Math Books (3)

Best online mathematics videos? (2)

Still Difficult After All These Years

Mathematical ideas named after places (2)

Is a inverse limit of compact spaces again compact ?

Interesting conjectures “discovered” by computers and proved by humans? (2)

Mathematical “urban legends”

The concept of Duality

Different ways of proving that two sets are equal

Jokes in the sense of Littlewood: examples?

When has pure mathematics been influenced by the social context of mathematicians?

The only great book that Bourbaki ever wrote?

What are the reasons for considering rings without identity?

Making N (set of all positive integers) a group

Interesting applications (in pure mathematics) of first-year calculus

What is happening to Martin Gardner’s files?

If $f$ is infinitely differentiable then $f$ coincides with a polynomial

Unbounded operator bounded in a dense subset

What’s an example of a space that needs the Hahn-Banach Theorem?

Question on geometric measure theory

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