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Deane Yang
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196 votes

Why do so many textbooks have so much technical detail and so little enlightenment?

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Why do we teach calculus students the derivative as a limit?

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Why study Lie algebras?

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What's a great christmas present for someone with a PhD in Mathematics?

96 votes

Proofs that require fundamentally new ways of thinking

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Parodies of abstruse mathematical writing

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How has "what every mathematician should know" changed?

62 votes

John Nash's Mathematical Legacy

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Too old for advanced mathematics?

58 votes

Examples of simultaneous independent breakthroughs

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Why is cotangent more canonical than tangent?

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Why is a topology made up of 'open' sets?

52 votes

Where does a math person go to learn quantum mechanics?

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Are there proofs that you feel you did not "understand" for a long time?

47 votes

Writing papers in pre-LaTeX era?

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What is the Implicit Function Theorem good for?

43 votes

Reading list for basic differential geometry?

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Which mathematical definitions should be formalised in Lean?

39 votes

Why are matrices ubiquitous but hypermatrices rare?

37 votes

Physicist's request for intuition on covariant derivatives and Lie derivatives

34 votes

Does Physics need non-analytic smooth functions?

32 votes

Sheaves and bundles in differential geometry

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Geodesics on spheres are great circles

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Mathematical "urban legends"

27 votes

Proofs that require fundamentally new ways of thinking

27 votes

Major mathematical advances past age fifty

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Why do we care about $L^p$ spaces besides $p = 1$, $p = 2$, and $p = \infty$?

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

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Why should I prefer bundles to (surjective) submersions?

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What would you want to see at the Museum of Mathematics?

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