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A pattern in factorization of certrain symmetric polynomials made of sums of squares and products

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Interesting examples of vacuous / void entities

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Journal of serious opinions on weighty matters for mathematicians

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Reference request: Best book to cite on a property of the family of Cauchy distributions

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Does some published texbook take a particular approach (described here) to the transition from discrete to continuous probability distributions?

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Closed form of the sum of a fast-converging series

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Kepler conjecture: Are there only two most efficient packings or could there be more than two?

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Central limit theorems involving nominal-valued random variables

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Nontrivial theorems with trivial proofs

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Why should we expect this odd behavior of negative binomial distributions?

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An equivalent of the axiom of choice? [closed]

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Interesting examples of systems of linear differential equations with constant coefficients

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Prime gaps within which every "small" prime appears as a factor: Are there only finitely many? Is this the last one?

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Prime gaps that are "relatively" bigger than all later prime gaps: Is this in OEIS?

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Unusual clump of small prime numbers?

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1 answer
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Uniqueness of the variance

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1 answer
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Classification of all unbiased estimators of the mean of a normal population

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1 answer
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Combinatorial meaning of a reduced fraction in a simple probability problem?

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Can a "discrete" argument involving a gamma mixture of Poisson distributions be adapted to work for non-integers?

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Reference request, or maybe not really a reference request, on differential algebra

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1 answer
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Is the Robertson–Seymour theorem equivalent to the compactness of some topological space?

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Realizing a negative-binomially distributed random variable simultaneously in two different ways

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Why should the logarithmic series distribution model the number of "Items" bought?

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Singmaster's conjecture

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Clumps of small multiples of large squares

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Subsets of $\mathbb{R}^+$ closed under addition

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Reference request on a pattern among nearly isosceles Pythagorean triples

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Mathematicians learning from applications to other fields

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Reference request: Dictionary of the Leibniz notation

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Aphantasiac mathematicians? [duplicate]