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Carlo Beenakker
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136 votes

How can a mathematician handle the pressure to discover something new?

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Are there any serious investigations of whether "mathematicians do their best work when they're young"?

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PhD dissertations that solve an established open problem

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"Surprising" examples of Markov chains

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Should water at the scale of a cell feel more like tar?

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What are some noteworthy "mic-drop" moments in math?

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The most outrageous (or ridiculous) conjectures in mathematics

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Is this differential identity known?

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What’s the etiquette on using diagrams that need color to be understood?

82 votes

Note rejected from arXiv: what to do next?

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How did "normal" come to mean "perpendicular"?

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Who is the "young student" André Weil is referring to in his letter from the prison?

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Is there any deep philosophy or intuition behind the similarity between $\pi/4$ and $e^{-\gamma}$?

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Is there a high level reason why the inverse square law of gravitation yields periodic orbits without precession?

63 votes

Is data science mathematically interesting?

59 votes

Research-only permanent positions worldwide

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J. H. C Whitehead (and his pig)

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Did Hilbert laugh?

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What are good mathematical models for spider webs?

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Who started the "-oid" suffix fashion in math?

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Why do bees create hexagonal cells ? (Mathematical reasons)

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Breakthroughs in mathematics in 2021

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Hilbert's Hotel

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On critical reviews of Hawking's lecture "Gödel and the end of the universe"

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Whence “homomorphism” and “homomorphic”?

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Publishing mathematical coincidences

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Is a come back to mathematical research possible?

47 votes

Examples of creative experiments by mathematicians in modern days

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Does Conway's game of life admit a notion of energy?

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On mathematical arguments against Quantum computing

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