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Dick Palais
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About a letter by Richard Palais of 1965.

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What if Current Foundations of Mathematics are Inconsistent?

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What are some examples of colorful language in serious mathematics papers?

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Theorems that are 'obvious' but hard to prove

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Is "Cartan's magic formula" due to Élie or Henri?

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What is the situation with Hilbert's Fifth Problem?

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Extremely messy proofs

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Is rigour just a ritual that most mathematicians wish to get rid of if they could?

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Is there a natural random process that is rigorously known to produce Zipf's law?

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Motivating the de Rham theorem

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Is Fourier analysis a special case of representation theory or an analogue?

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Square root of a positive $C^\infty$ function.

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What is an integrable system?

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Do these properties characterize differentiation?

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Teaching proofs in the era of Google

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$C^1$ isometric embedding of flat torus into $\mathbb{R}^3$

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existence of Morse functions satisfying the Palais-Smale condition

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Which principlal bundles are locally trivial?

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Leibnizian calculus textbook

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

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What does the word "symplectic" mean?

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Monotone functions are differentiable a.e. and Hilbert's Fifth Problem: what's the connection?

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Notes for Bott's 1963 lectures on Morse theory

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Suggestions for good notation

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Atiyah-Singer index theorem

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Why is the Laplacian ubiquitous?

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Differential forms, PDE's and Élie Cartan

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Are there examples of non-orientable manifolds in nature?

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Riemannian metric induced by a metric

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Total energy of the universe

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