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Undergraduate math research

When should a result be made into a paper?

Is there a reset sequence?

Is the sphere the only surface all of whose projections are circles? Or: Can we deduce a spherical Earth by observing that its shadows on the Moon are always circular?

Non-mathematician submitting to top maths journal?

How to distribute the source of programs used in a paper?

an engineering Ph.D. teaching math in college

Universities not listed on mathjobs

Which model of computation is “the best”?

Undecidability in Conway’s Game of Life

How to characterize a Self-avoiding path.

Teaching proofs in the era of Google

What counts as an ‘invited’ talk?

How and how much do the notations and diagrams influence our understanding of mathematical concepts?

Tools for long-distance collaboration

Happy New Prime Year!

Experimental Mathematics

Technical phd after 33

Are there any good computer programs for drawing (algebraic) curves?

Are there moves between Reidemeister moves?

How many simply connected subsets of an n-by-m grid?

Fair but irregular polyhedral dice (2)

Shortest grid-graph paths with random diagonal shortcuts

$\exists$ a shot in ideal pocket billiards?

Can we uniquely define a graph to have the topology of a polytope via proper edge length selection?

How can I find the average of two 2D curves?

Regular vs. Irregular Vertices in a Mesh

How do you decide whether a question in abstract algebra is worth studying?

Taking lecture notes in lectures

Open source mathematical software.

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