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Results that are widely accepted but no proof has appeared
The background of this question is the talk given by Kevin Buzzard.
I could not find the slides of that talk. The slides of another talk given by Kevin Buzzard along the same theme are available here.
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Terminology introduced in recent years with more than one meaning
Suppose a term(inology) is recently (in last 20 years) introduced in research mathematics.
It might happen that some one who wish to use it, in the same area of research, for different purposes or ...
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Proofs where higher dimension or cardinality actually enabled much simpler proof?
I am very interested in proofs that become shorter and simpler by going to higher dimension in $\mathbb R^n$, or higher cardinality. By "higher" I mean that the proof is using higher dimension or ...