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What is a foliation and why should I care?

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Results true in a dimension and false for higher dimensions

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Rediscovery of lost mathematics

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Escape the zombie apocalypse

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Central limit theorem via maximal entropy

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Parodies of abstruse mathematical writing

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

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Ways to prove the fundamental theorem of algebra

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Non-rigorous reasoning in rigorous mathematics

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Why are isometries of Minkowski space necessarily linear?

answered Dec 30, 2011 at 16:34

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A stochastic process that is 1st and 2nd order (strictly) stationary, but not 3rd order stationary

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Importance of Poincaré recurrence theorem? Any example?

answered Sep 17, 2011 at 1:02

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Random Voronoi Diagrams

answered Sep 14, 2014 at 13:23

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Does anyone know an intuitive proof of the Birkhoff ergodic theorem?

answered Sep 24, 2010 at 17:49

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Jokes in the sense of Littlewood: examples?

answered Sep 25, 2010 at 18:26

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Why differential forms are important?

answered Jul 29, 2014 at 0:02

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Functions which are periodic along every geodesic

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Assessing effectiveness of (epsilon, delta) definitions

answered Jul 17, 2017 at 3:14

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Most intricate and most beautiful structures in mathematics

answered Jul 10, 2016 at 13:50

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Infimum of a finite number of distances in the plane

answered Apr 2, 2013 at 15:30

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The relationship between low dimensional topology and dynamics

answered Mar 18, 2012 at 20:03

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Help prove a maximal inequality

answered Dec 31, 2011 at 18:29

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Sources for BibTeX entries

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Heat kernel upper bound on compact Riemannian manifold

answered Jan 13, 2015 at 12:30

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Conformal invariance of Brownian motion in higher dimensions

answered Aug 12, 2014 at 20:29

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Random Vornoi Diagrams (particular measures)

answered Sep 15, 2014 at 13:43

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Spectrum of transition matrix for symmetric random walk

answered Nov 30, 2012 at 14:50

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Proof synopsis collection

answered Dec 1, 2012 at 17:11

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$\ell^1$-bound on graph laplacian with weight

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Probabilistic proofs of analytic facts

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What is a foliation and why should I care?

Results true in a dimension and false for higher dimensions

Rediscovery of lost mathematics

Escape the zombie apocalypse

Central limit theorem via maximal entropy

Parodies of abstruse mathematical writing

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

Ways to prove the fundamental theorem of algebra

Non-rigorous reasoning in rigorous mathematics

Why are isometries of Minkowski space necessarily linear?

A stochastic process that is 1st and 2nd order (strictly) stationary, but not 3rd order stationary

Importance of Poincaré recurrence theorem? Any example?

Random Voronoi Diagrams

Does anyone know an intuitive proof of the Birkhoff ergodic theorem?

Jokes in the sense of Littlewood: examples?

Why differential forms are important?

Functions which are periodic along every geodesic

Assessing effectiveness of (epsilon, delta) definitions

Most intricate and most beautiful structures in mathematics

Infimum of a finite number of distances in the plane

The relationship between low dimensional topology and dynamics

Help prove a maximal inequality

Sources for BibTeX entries

Heat kernel upper bound on compact Riemannian manifold

Conformal invariance of Brownian motion in higher dimensions

Random Vornoi Diagrams (particular measures)

Spectrum of transition matrix for symmetric random walk

Proof synopsis collection

$\ell^1$-bound on graph laplacian with weight

Probabilistic proofs of analytic facts