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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

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

decomposition of representations of a product group

Matrix representation for $F_4$

Triality of Spin(8)

What is a special parahoric subgroup?

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

"Mathematics talk" for five year olds

Papers that debunk common myths in the history of mathematics

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

Modeling in pure math

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

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

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

Moments of area of random triangle inscribed in a circle

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

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

a question about irreducibility of representations and Kirillov conjecture

Figure out the roots from the Dynkin diagram

Count of full, binary trees with fixed number of leaves

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

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