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Jokes in the sense of Littlewood: examples?
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Famous mathematical quotes
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Most interesting mathematics mistake?
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Is $\mathbb{R}^3 \setminus \mathbb{Q}^3$ simply connected?
Awarded Jun 7 at 1:10
Intuition for Integral Transforms
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Elementary + short + useful
Awarded May 4 at 22:26
Refereeing a Paper
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Global character of ABC/Szpiro inequalities
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Famous mathematical quotes
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Is the Riemann zeta function surjective?
Awarded Mar 30 at 3:03
Is Fourier analysis a special case of representation theory or an analogue?
Awarded Mar 24 at 8:25
Irrationality of $ \pi e, \pi^{\pi}$ and $e^{\pi^2}$
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Au revoir, law of excluded middle?
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What are some examples of colorful language in serious mathematics papers?
Awarded Mar 7 at 0:19
Not especially famous, long-open problems which anyone can understand
Awarded Feb 17 at 10:08
Not especially famous, long-open problems which anyone can understand
Awarded Feb 17 at 0:04
How should one think about sheafification and the difference between a sheaf and a presheaf
Awarded Jan 30 at 0:09
How do pure mathematicians assess whether their research ambitions can be realistically achieved?
Awarded Dec 27, 2023 at 4:06
Examples of common false beliefs in mathematics
Awarded Nov 11, 2023 at 5:55
What is Lagrange Inversion good for?
Awarded Oct 13, 2023 at 19:57
Conceptual reason why the sign of a permutation is well-defined?
Awarded Sep 27, 2023 at 16:41
"Philosophical" meaning of the Yoneda Lemma
Awarded Aug 29, 2023 at 19:48
Famous mathematical quotes
Awarded Aug 25, 2023 at 9:18
Conway's lesser-known results
Awarded Jul 23, 2023 at 11:35
Irreducibility of polynomials in two variables
Awarded Jun 20, 2023 at 14:20
The Arnold – Serre debate
Awarded Apr 8, 2023 at 21:18
Intuitive crutches for higher dimensional thinking
Awarded Feb 24, 2023 at 12:17
Why do we make such big deal about the 'unsolvability' of the quintic?
Awarded Feb 23, 2023 at 5:35
Geometric interpretation of trace
Awarded Jan 23, 2023 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
Awarded Sep 26, 2022 at 20:17
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
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Small ideas that became big
Awarded May 17, 2022 at 23:47
Nontrivial theorems with trivial proofs
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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
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