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May 14, 2014 at 10:46 answer added Paul Siegel timeline score: 6
May 14, 2014 at 10:34 answer added Paul Siegel timeline score: 2
May 14, 2014 at 5:58 comment added Colin Reid Not sure if this counts as an example: if you take a random $k$-element subset of the free profinite group $F$ on $d \ge 2$ generators, it will almost always be contained in a proper closed subgroup of $F$, for any $k$. What's interesting is that this is not the case, for instance, for the free prosoluble group on $d$ generators (provided $k$ is large enough).
May 14, 2014 at 2:38 answer added Jake Fillman timeline score: 1
May 13, 2014 at 21:26 answer added Simon Lyons timeline score: -1
May 10, 2014 at 15:00 answer added Bill Johnson timeline score: 5
May 10, 2014 at 13:37 answer added Benjamin Steinberg timeline score: 2
May 7, 2014 at 20:18 comment added vzn alas interesting idea but probably too broad when undecidable problems are taken into acct (undecidability is quite rampant). also, fractals. also, Collatz conjecture related to integer iterative/dynamic equations.
May 7, 2014 at 18:42 answer added Joel David Hamkins timeline score: 9
May 7, 2014 at 18:23 answer added Joseph O'Rourke timeline score: 3
May 7, 2014 at 17:51 comment added Benjamin Steinberg @Nate, they are better in some sense than transcendental numbers, but of course the deeper the math involved the more interesting.
May 7, 2014 at 16:28 comment added Nate Eldredge Would "Almost all continuous functions are nowhere differentiable" (in either the sense of category or measure) be an example of the kind you are looking for? Maybe that again is too trivial. Or, "Almost all numbers are normal"?
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May 7, 2014 at 15:11 comment added Sam Hopkins The dichotomy between "highly structured" and "highly random" is at the heart of additive combinatorics: or at least I have heard this slogan tossed around a lot!
May 7, 2014 at 15:00 comment added Benjamin Steinberg I am particularly interested in nontrivial examples from a math viewpoint. Eg almost all numbers are transcendental would be a less interesting example.
May 7, 2014 at 14:49 history asked Benjamin Steinberg CC BY-SA 3.0