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Philosophy behind Mochizuki's work on the ABC conjecture

What are the worst notations, in your opinion?

What about a mathematics journal for 'negative' results?

Value of "of course" in the mathematical literature

Volumes of n-balls: what is so special about n=5?

Is there a "Basic Number Theory" for elliptic curves?

Problems where we can't make a canonical choice, solved by looking at all choices at once

Does this sum equal zeta(3)?

The octonions on a bad day

Matrix representation for $F_4$

decomposition of representations of a product group

What is the "serious" name for the topograph (for a quadratic form)

Triality of Spin(8)

"Mathematics talk" for five year olds

The square root of Wilson's theorem when $p\equiv 1 \mod 4$

Modeling in pure math

What is a special parahoric subgroup?

Papers that debunk common myths in the history of mathematics

Do L-functions exist for Half-integral weight modular forms?

How to teach introductory statistic course to students with little math background?

Are there as many real-closed fields of a given cardinality as I think there are?

Is there analogue of Peter–Weyl theorem for non-compact or quantum group

Representation theory of reductive groups in characteristic $p$ as a limit of the theories in characteristic $0$

Local Langlands for $GL(2,\mathbf{C})$ and reducible principal series

Moments of area of random triangle inscribed in a circle

a question about irreducibility of representations and Kirillov conjecture

When does a unitary Hilbert space rep of a reductive Lie group decompose into a direct sum of irreps with finite multiplicities?

Do names given to math concepts have a role in common mistakes by students?

What are the local Langlands conjectures nowadays, for connected reductive groups over a $p$-adic field?

Count of full, binary trees with fixed number of leaves