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Intuitive crutches for higher dimensional thinking
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Why do we make such big deal about the 'unsolvability' of the quintic?
Awarded Feb 23 at 5:35
Geometric interpretation of trace
Awarded Jan 23 at 9:26
Tweetable Mathematics
Awarded Dec 30, 2022 at 3:36
Have you solved problems in your sleep?
Awarded Dec 26, 2022 at 2:25
Do you read the masters?
Awarded Dec 23, 2022 at 9:18
Collection of equivalent forms of Riemann Hypothesis
Awarded Dec 22, 2022 at 18:51
Why is the Eisenstein ideal paper so great?
Awarded Dec 13, 2022 at 3:41
A number theory problem where pi appears surprisingly
Awarded Nov 29, 2022 at 12:03
Proofs without words
Awarded Nov 6, 2022 at 19:10
Czelakowski's claimed proof of the Twin Prime Conjecture
Awarded Nov 3, 2022 at 22:25
Your favorite surprising connections in mathematics
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Your favorite surprising connections in mathematics
Awarded Sep 21, 2022 at 19:36
Famous mathematical quotes
Awarded Sep 3, 2022 at 19:42
When should a supervisor be a co-author?
Awarded Aug 28, 2022 at 8:42
What properties make $[0,1]$ a good candidate for defining fundamental groups?
Awarded Aug 10, 2022 at 14:01
Zagier's one-sentence proof of a theorem of Fermat
Awarded Jul 5, 2022 at 8:56
Theorems with unexpected conclusions
Awarded Jun 21, 2022 at 14:34
Why might André Weil have named Carl Ludwig Siegel the greatest mathematician of the 20th century?
Awarded Jun 17, 2022 at 2:17
Is there a high-concept explanation for why "simplicial" leads to "homotopy-theoretic"?
Awarded May 30, 2022 at 2:06
PhD dissertations that solve an established open problem
Awarded May 20, 2022 at 19:12
Small ideas that became big
Awarded May 17, 2022 at 23:47
Nontrivial theorems with trivial proofs
Awarded May 15, 2022 at 15:37
Mathematicians with both “very abstract” and “very applied” achievements
Awarded May 7, 2022 at 13:28
Too old for advanced mathematics?
Awarded Apr 25, 2022 at 0:27
Who wrote up Banach's thesis?
Awarded Apr 17, 2022 at 17:36
Probabilistic proofs of analytic facts
Awarded Mar 30, 2022 at 9:06
A single paper everyone should read?
Awarded Mar 10, 2022 at 19:50
What are some examples of colorful language in serious mathematics papers?
Awarded Feb 26, 2022 at 12:01
Is St. Petersburg a good place for the 2022 Int. Congress of Mathematicians
Awarded Feb 26, 2022 at 2:43
Best algebraic geometry textbook? (other than Hartshorne)
Awarded Feb 3, 2022 at 14:09
Awfully sophisticated proof for simple facts
Awarded Jan 30, 2022 at 21:20
Demystifying complex numbers
Awarded Jan 4, 2022 at 17:55
Proofs that require fundamentally new ways of thinking
Awarded Jan 1, 2022 at 1:48
Suggestions for good notation
Awarded Dec 17, 2021 at 5:30
What are some examples of colorful language in serious mathematics papers?
Awarded Oct 24, 2021 at 6:25
Nontrivially fillable gaps in published proofs of major theorems
Awarded Oct 9, 2021 at 10:25
Widely accepted mathematical results that were later shown to be wrong?
Awarded Oct 5, 2021 at 15:03
Most helpful math resources on the web
Awarded Sep 29, 2021 at 6:07
Most memorable titles
Awarded Sep 20, 2021 at 9:35
How to memorise (understand) Nakayama's lemma and its corollaries?
Awarded Aug 20, 2021 at 14:17
What are some reasonable-sounding statements that are independent of ZFC?
Awarded Aug 8, 2021 at 1:32
Examples of common false beliefs in mathematics
Awarded Aug 3, 2021 at 17:33
Please check my 6-line proof of Fermat's Last Theorem.
Awarded Jul 14, 2021 at 22:21
Why do we have two theorems when one implies the other?
Awarded Jul 13, 2021 at 15:56
Invertible matrices of natural numbers are permutations... why?
Awarded Jul 13, 2021 at 12:33
Is the sphere the only surface with circular projections? Or: Can we deduce a spherical Earth by observing that its shadows on the Moon are circular?
Awarded Jul 12, 2021 at 15:10
Should I not cite an arxiv.org paper which otherwise seems to be unpublished?
Awarded Jul 6, 2021 at 7:26
Why are matrices ubiquitous but hypermatrices rare?
Awarded Jul 1, 2021 at 1:26
Conway's lesser-known results
Awarded Jul 1, 2021 at 1:08
Parallelizability of the Milnor's exotic spheres in dimension 7
Awarded Jun 29, 2021 at 1:45
Why is the gradient normal?
Awarded Jun 25, 2021 at 20:32
Which high-degree derivatives play an essential role?
Awarded Jun 22, 2021 at 11:52
Short exact sequences every mathematician should know
Awarded Jun 19, 2021 at 1:35
Proofs without words
Awarded May 21, 2021 at 22:27
Why worry about the axiom of choice?
Awarded May 5, 2021 at 13:37
Proofs that require fundamentally new ways of thinking
Awarded Apr 25, 2021 at 13:49
Special rational numbers that appear as answers to natural questions
Awarded Apr 7, 2021 at 18:50
Not especially famous, long-open problems which anyone can understand
Awarded Mar 30, 2021 at 7:02
Examples of interesting false proofs
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