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History and philosophy of mathematics, biographies of mathematicians, mathematics education, recreational mathematics, communication of mathematics.

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What is the state of research on Horn Angles?

1) Horn angles and variations thereof appear to be well studied in conformal geometry, see e.g. the papers by Ladue, Mary Elizabeth "Conformal geometry of horn angles of higher order", Amer. J. Math. …
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Proofs that require fundamentally new ways of thinking

I think Fürstenberg´s proof of the infinitude of primes, taken for itself, could be considered in the spirit of the original question, even though its mathematical value is questionable.
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What were the main ideas and gaps in Yoichi Miyaoka's attempted proof (1988) of Fermat's Las...

Out of sheer curiosity I have been reading Stewert and Tall's "Algebraic Number Theory and Fermat's Last Theorem" (2001). As it contains various bits of history, I found out to my own shame that I was …
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