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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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Old books you would like to have reprinted with high-quality typesetting
There are some questions on mathoverflow such as
What out-of-print books would you like to see re-printed?
Old books still used
with answers that tell us things such as:
Mathematicians prefer to use …
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Proofs without words
Michael Goldberg, Constructions possible by ruler and compasses, Math. Mag. Vol. 51, No. 5, p. 283 (1 page) (Nov., 1978).
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Prominent non-mathematical work of mathematicians
First of all, sorry if this post is not appropriate for this forum.
I have a habit that every time I read a beautiful article I look at the author's homepage and often find amazing things.
Recently I …
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Interesting mathematical documentaries
Pits, Peaks, and Passes: A Lecture on Critical Point Theory about Marston Morse.
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What are your common strategies/remedies when your new theory/idea stuck in most cases?
Sorry if this is not a suitable post for MO.
Sometimes after reading the origin of a theory/idea in differential topology I put myself in the shoes of that mathematician and ask myself, Did you do the …
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Books you would like to see translated into English
I haven't read the following, I want to read it just because in his books, Milnor referred to it for some proofs.
Cerf, J., Sur les difféomorphismes de la sphère de dimension trois ($\Gamma_ 4 = 0$), …
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What is so special about Chern's way of teaching?
First of all sorry for this non-research post.
I was watching Jeffrey Blitz Lucky documentary movie and it was interesting to me that a winner of Lottery was a math Ph.D. from Berkeley.
In the movie …
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Prominent non-mathematical work of mathematicians
Not so prominent I think but I'd like to mention that the MathTime Professional 2 (MTPro2) fonts were designed by Michael Spivak of Publish or Perish Inc., see here.
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LaTeX tricks that save time in typesetting
In ${\rm\LaTeX}$ typesetting, when we repeat a long and complex formula in long documents, it is appropriate to create a new command that just by calling this new command we get the desired output. Fo …
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Most memorable titles
The book of Serge Lang: $\mathrm{SL}_2(\Bbb R)$.
Lang, Serge, $\mathrm{SL}_2(\Bbb R)$, Reading, Mass. etc.: Addison-Wesley Publishing Company. XVI, 428 p. $19.50 (1975). ZBL0311.22001.
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Old books you would like to have reprinted with high-quality typesetting
Not so bad quality but I'd like to see the following recent books in new typesetting:
do Carmo, Manfredo Perdigão, Riemannian geometry. Translated from the Portuguese by Francis Flaherty, Mathematics …
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Examples of common false beliefs in mathematics
I already thought that the following two sets of matrices are one.
$$M(\color{blue}{\Bbb R},2n)\qquad \text{and}\qquad M(\color{red}{\Bbb C},n).$$
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Prominent non-mathematical work of mathematicians
Glen E. Bredon is the author of the programs DOS.MASTER for Apple II computers, Merlin (a macro assembler) and ProSel for Apple machines. He was the professor of mathematics at Berkley and IAS and au …
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Prominent non-mathematical work of mathematicians
Abu Rayhan al-Biruni (973 – after 1050) was an Iranian polymath, physicist, astronomer, natural sciences, historian, chronologist and linguist. One of the best his achievements is a method proposed a …
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