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Why do roots of polynomials tend to have absolute value close to 1?

answered Oct 6, 2014 at 3:17

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Pressure to defend the relevance of one's area of mathematics

answered Apr 28, 2019 at 12:24

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What is the most useful non-existing object of your field?

answered Sep 28, 2014 at 23:55

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Examples of intuition from fields other than Physics to solve math problems

answered Sep 17, 2014 at 2:55

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information-theoretic derivation of the prime number theorem

answered Feb 17, 2021 at 5:30

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In what rigorous sense are Sperner's Lemma and the Brouwer Fixed Point Theorem equivalent?

answered Jun 7, 2013 at 0:55

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What does "game theory" cover and how should it be called?

answered Mar 10, 2016 at 5:19

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Probability of a graph procedure

answered Mar 8, 2015 at 6:18

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Is rigour just a ritual that most mathematicians wish to get rid of if they could?

answered Feb 28, 2019 at 22:18

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Research-only permanent positions worldwide

answered Jun 24, 2017 at 20:21

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What problem would you base your mathcoin on?

answered Nov 30, 2014 at 2:03

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Where can square roots come from when they are not distances?

answered Mar 14, 2016 at 5:34

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Stromquist's 3 knives procedure

answered Sep 10, 2014 at 17:18

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Modeling in pure math

answered Dec 17, 2019 at 6:57

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Separating Heavier from the Lighter Balls

answered May 7, 2016 at 17:12

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Mathematical habits of thought and action which would be of use to non-mathematicians

answered Mar 21, 2015 at 16:06

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Math talk for all ages

answered Nov 3, 2020 at 6:08

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Computational complexity theoretic incompleteness: is that a thing?

answered Jan 4, 2023 at 1:51

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Where have you used computer programming in your career as an (applied/pure) mathematician?

answered Jan 20, 2015 at 17:52

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Algorithm to find the “optimal” path in a given graph

answered Sep 19, 2014 at 16:47

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Sperner Lemma Applications

answered Oct 3, 2013 at 21:27

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concentration inequality for entropy from sample

answered Jan 21, 2016 at 7:57

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What characterizations of relative information are known?

answered Feb 28, 2017 at 21:24

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Is data science mathematically interesting?

answered Oct 3, 2019 at 19:38

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The distribution of the number of chord intersections

answered Oct 22, 2017 at 15:57

4 votes

Approximating Probability Distribution by Sampling

answered Sep 13, 2014 at 19:47

4 votes

Examples of famous 'workhorse' theorems

answered Jul 25, 2014 at 20:43

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The relative error of approximating a binomial

answered Dec 1, 2022 at 5:13

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Do these $L^p$ type statistics characterize distributions?

answered Dec 18, 2022 at 2:01

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Deciding when to stop searching for a new type of shell on a beach?

answered Mar 16, 2022 at 3:19

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Why do roots of polynomials tend to have absolute value close to 1?

Pressure to defend the relevance of one's area of mathematics

What is the most useful non-existing object of your field?

Examples of intuition from fields other than Physics to solve math problems

information-theoretic derivation of the prime number theorem

In what rigorous sense are Sperner's Lemma and the Brouwer Fixed Point Theorem equivalent?

What does "game theory" cover and how should it be called?

Probability of a graph procedure

Is rigour just a ritual that most mathematicians wish to get rid of if they could?

Research-only permanent positions worldwide

What problem would you base your mathcoin on?

Where can square roots come from when they are not distances?

Stromquist's 3 knives procedure

Modeling in pure math

Separating Heavier from the Lighter Balls

Mathematical habits of thought and action which would be of use to non-mathematicians

Math talk for all ages

Computational complexity theoretic incompleteness: is that a thing?

Where have you used computer programming in your career as an (applied/pure) mathematician?

Algorithm to find the “optimal” path in a given graph

Sperner Lemma Applications

concentration inequality for entropy from sample

What characterizations of relative information are known?

Is data science mathematically interesting?

The distribution of the number of chord intersections

Approximating Probability Distribution by Sampling

Examples of famous 'workhorse' theorems

The relative error of approximating a binomial

Do these $L^p$ type statistics characterize distributions?

Deciding when to stop searching for a new type of shell on a beach?