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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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What's the difference between 2 and 3?

More examples are given as answers to a similar question about problems NP-hard in $\mathbb R^3$ but not in $\mathbb R^2$: Set-cover by half-spaces. Finding a shortest path between two points among …
8 votes

Free, high quality mathematical writing online?

Check out Allen Hatcher's online books (topological stuff).
8 votes

More open problems

Mike Boyle's open problems in symbolic dynamics.
12 votes

A single paper everyone should read?

I like Musical Actions of Dihedral Groups pretty much. It gives a nice view of harmony (the art of using chords in music), considering the set of chords as the dihedral group of order 24 (12 major + 1 …
46 votes

A single paper everyone should read?

Another suggestion: A beginner's guide to forcing by Tim Chow. It really explains the continuum hypothesis, in a very accessible and captivating way. People often talk about the continuum hypothesis, …
37 votes

What are some reasonable-sounding statements that are independent of ZFC?

Paul Erdős proved a funny statement about analytic functions to be equivalent to the continuum hypothesis. The same proof can also be found in Proofs from THE BOOK. Let $\{f \}$ be a family of pai …