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Most memorable titles
Here is a list of papers in Theoretical Computer Science with cute titles. Some that I like from the list (aside from "Mick gets some" which is good enough to deserve its own answer anyway).
A Smalle …
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What are the big problems in probability theory?
To my mind one of the biggest open problems in probability, in the sense of being a famous basic statement that we don't know how to solve, is to show that there is "no percolation at the critical poi …
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The half-life of a theorem, or Arnold's principle at work
Here is a very nice example. The abstract of the article "On planarity of compact, locally connected, metric spaces", by R. Bruce Richter, Brendan Rooney and Carsten Thomassen, starts as follows.
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Theorems first published in textbooks?
The proof that Reed's conjecture holds fractionally (i.e. for the fractional rather than regular chromatic number) has only been published in this textbook.