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Questions designed to generate a "big list" of certain results, examples, conjectures, etc. via many individual answers, each contributing one or a few instances. Such a question should typically be in Community Wiki mode (CW); after asking, please, flag for moderators attention requesting the question to be made CW.

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Undergraduate Level Math Books

Complex Variables: Harmonic and Analytic Functions by Francis J. Flanigan A nice little Dover paperback which turns the standard course on complex variables on its head. It begins by doing some multi …
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Demonstrating that rigour is important

Based on the recent update to the question, Fermat's Last Theorem seems like the top example of a proof being far more valuable than the truth of the statement. Personally it's a rare occurrence for m …
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Cocktail party math

I like the following description of the inverse galois problem I came up with at one point: Do you remember polynomials? Maybe from high school math? Do you ever remember trying to factor polynomials …
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Books about history of recent mathematics

I am shocked that Carol Parikh's "The Unreal Life of Oscar Zariski" hasn't been mentioned. It paints a very charming picture of the man and casts new light onto luminaries like Weil, Lefschetz and Bi …
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applications of Tate-Poitou duality

Take a look at the recent paper of Mazur and Rubin, "Ranks of twists of elliptic curves and Hilbert's 10th problem" Lemma 3.2, one of the indispensable lemmas of the paper, is a direct application of …
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Thinking and Explaining

I am immediately reminded of the following phenomenon: "Let's consider an elliptic curve $E$ over $\mathbf{Q}_p$." ~Speaker begins to draw a donut at the board~ Clearly this is wrong. The speaker m …