User John Stillwell

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What are some examples of colorful language in serious mathematics papers?

asked Apr 23, 2010 at 5:01

141 votes

59 answers

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Jokes in the sense of Littlewood: examples? [closed]

asked Sep 15, 2010 at 18:30

86 votes

6 answers

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What are the most elegant proofs that you have learned from MO?

asked Jun 27, 2010 at 0:11

84 votes

37 answers

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What are some correct results discovered with incorrect (or no) proofs?

asked Jun 10, 2010 at 23:44

80 votes

64 answers

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Books you would like to see translated into English

asked Mar 10, 2010 at 23:20

76 votes

19 answers

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What are some deep theorems, and why are they considered deep?

asked Aug 16, 2013 at 19:32

61 votes

4 answers

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Is it possible to have a research career while checking the proof of every theorem that you cite?

asked May 4, 2016 at 4:57

27 votes

2 answers

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Are any natural examples of Gödel speed-up known?

asked May 18, 2011 at 0:53

21 votes

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Question arising from Voevodsky's talk on inconsistency

asked Oct 5, 2010 at 22:43

19 votes

8 answers

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To what extent is it true that "number theory = mathematics"? [closed]

asked May 29, 2010 at 3:35

18 votes

4 answers

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The only great book that Bourbaki ever wrote?

asked Aug 3, 2010 at 2:33

16 votes

3 answers

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Natural examples of Reverse Mathematics outside classical analysis?

asked Nov 1, 2014 at 18:18

12 votes

1 answer

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In search of an early picture of Max Dehn

asked Jun 1, 2012 at 8:12

7 votes

0 answers

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Why has Sacks' "Measure-theoretic uniformity" not been more influential?

asked Feb 8, 2013 at 23:31

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