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Questions about mathematics which don't fall into the other arXiv categories. If you have a general question about mathematics but it is not research level, it's off-topic but it might be welcomed on Mathematics Stack Exchange.
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What is your favorite "strange" function?
Fix a probability $p < 1/2$ of winning an unfair coin toss. For $x \in [0,1]$ rational, let $f(x)$ be the probability that, if you started with $x$ dollars, you could make it to 1 dollar through optim …
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Where do surreal numbers come from and what do they mean?
"...at least for now, I'm finished. All the questions that have yet to be answered are too hard." -- Jacob Lurie on surreal numbers, 1996
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What would you want to see at the Museum of Mathematics?
The standard orientation on $S^1$, if you can borrow it from NIST.
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Structures that turn out to exhibit a symmetry even though their definition doesn't
This is a rather specialized example, but dear to my heart.
Consider the set of "Richardson subvarieties" of the flag manifold $GL_n/B$, intersections of Schubert and opposite Schubert varieties. The …