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Why is the Frankl conjecture hard?

answered Mar 5, 2016 at 3:13

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How did the refereeing system of Gösta Mittag-Leffler's Acta Mathematica function from 1882 to (about) 1918?

answered Jul 12, 2017 at 9:21

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Who named it the Snake Lemma?

answered Sep 11, 2012 at 22:56

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Reference request: Geodesic flow on a manifold with negative curvature is ergodic

answered Dec 26, 2013 at 6:20

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Anti-Mandelbrot set

answered Jun 6, 2015 at 6:27

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Are there irreducible polynomials with all zeros on two concentric circles?

answered Oct 5, 2015 at 0:39

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Looking for a paper on transfinite diameter by David Cantor

answered Sep 2, 2020 at 16:02

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Why is Gauss credited with this connection?

answered Nov 17, 2012 at 1:48

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Are there any interesting or lesser known proofs related to Bertrand's Postulate

answered Aug 2, 2012 at 0:35

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Thurston's senior thesis at New College

answered Sep 14, 2012 at 5:32

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How does a mathematician choose on which problem to work?

answered Oct 11, 2015 at 22:17

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Colourings of $\mathbb Q\times \mathbb Q$ in three colours

answered Jun 30, 2014 at 17:56

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Has the Fundamental Theorem of Algebra been proved using just fixed point theory?

answered May 28, 2013 at 5:50

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"'Category' was defined in order to define 'functor', which was defined in order to define 'natural transformation'"

answered Oct 2, 2013 at 4:43

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First occurrence of "by the usual compactness argument"?

answered Sep 30, 2013 at 10:24

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Seeking a seemingly missing reference of Casson

answered Oct 5, 2012 at 23:28

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Göbel's correspondance between rooted trees and natural numbers

answered Jun 5, 2021 at 19:41

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Where and when did "transition to abstraction" courses start?

answered Dec 15, 2013 at 0:30

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Proposals for polymath projects

answered Jun 8, 2017 at 0:17

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Short papers for undergraduate course on reading scholarly math

answered Mar 22, 2018 at 0:15

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Origin of the term "generic" in set theory

answered Jun 7, 2014 at 2:24

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The Dissertation of F. J. van der Linden

answered Oct 19, 2013 at 5:54

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When did you "meet Polya"?

answered Jun 29, 2013 at 1:06

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What recent discoveries have amateur mathematicians made?

answered Jun 10, 2014 at 19:24

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Frechet differentiable implies reflexive?

answered Jun 12, 2014 at 22:36

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Negative impact of wrong or non-rigorous proofs

answered Jul 18, 2014 at 16:38

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When are $9^{n} - 2$ and $9^{n} + 2$ both prime?

answered Jun 3, 2018 at 20:38

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Crux of Dwork's proof of rationality of the zeta function?

answered Sep 11, 2016 at 2:05

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On a paper by Dimitrie Pompéiu and on one (in two parts) by Edmund Landau

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Elementary + short + useful

Why is the Frankl conjecture hard?

How did the refereeing system of Gösta Mittag-Leffler's Acta Mathematica function from 1882 to (about) 1918?

Who named it the Snake Lemma?

Reference request: Geodesic flow on a manifold with negative curvature is ergodic

Anti-Mandelbrot set

Are there irreducible polynomials with all zeros on two concentric circles?

Looking for a paper on transfinite diameter by David Cantor

Why is Gauss credited with this connection?

Are there any interesting or lesser known proofs related to Bertrand's Postulate

Thurston's senior thesis at New College

How does a mathematician choose on which problem to work?

Colourings of $\mathbb Q\times \mathbb Q$ in three colours

Has the Fundamental Theorem of Algebra been proved using just fixed point theory?

"'Category' was defined in order to define 'functor', which was defined in order to define 'natural transformation'"

First occurrence of "by the usual compactness argument"?

Seeking a seemingly missing reference of Casson

Göbel's correspondance between rooted trees and natural numbers

Where and when did "transition to abstraction" courses start?

Proposals for polymath projects

Short papers for undergraduate course on reading scholarly math

Origin of the term "generic" in set theory

The Dissertation of F. J. van der Linden

When did you "meet Polya"?

What recent discoveries have amateur mathematicians made?

Frechet differentiable implies reflexive?

Negative impact of wrong or non-rigorous proofs

When are $9^{n} - 2$ and $9^{n} + 2$ both prime?

Crux of Dwork's proof of rationality of the zeta function?

On a paper by Dimitrie Pompéiu and on one (in two parts) by Edmund Landau