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Can infinity shorten proofs a lot?

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Teaching statements for math jobs?

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How to write math well?

answered Oct 19, 2009 at 18:41

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Intuitive crutches for higher dimensional thinking

answered May 26, 2010 at 13:33

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Why study Lie algebras?

answered Mar 17, 2011 at 1:14

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Plagiarism in the community

answered Aug 6, 2011 at 4:22

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What precisely Is "Categorification"?

answered Nov 10, 2009 at 14:54

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How does the work of a pure mathematician impact society?

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Which mathematical ideas have done most to change history?

answered Feb 2, 2010 at 0:31

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Taking lecture notes in lectures

answered Jan 22, 2010 at 15:32

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How to balance writing professionally and being able to have a conversation with your reader?

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Why do Bernoulli numbers arise everywhere?

answered Apr 11, 2011 at 3:06

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Griffiths and Harris reference

answered Dec 11, 2010 at 0:01

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Creating high quality figures of surfaces

answered May 26, 2010 at 0:45

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Does it ever make sense NOT to go to the most prestigious grad school you can get into?

answered Nov 2, 2010 at 15:21

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Should the formula for the inverse of a 2x2 matrix be obvious?

answered Feb 21, 2012 at 4:57

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third stable homotopy group of spheres via geometry?

answered Nov 4, 2010 at 23:46

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What do the stable homotopy groups of spheres say about the combinatorics of finite sets?

answered Sep 27, 2011 at 23:55

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What is the Implicit Function Theorem good for?

answered Sep 6, 2010 at 23:56

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Has anyone tabulated 2-knots? Would anyone like to try?

answered Oct 15, 2009 at 0:32

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How to respond to "I was never much good at maths at school."

answered Nov 13, 2009 at 14:51

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Higher order quandle

answered Nov 29, 2009 at 15:51

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What is an immersed submanifold?

answered Jan 25, 2010 at 1:29

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How seriously should a graduate student take teaching evaluations?

answered Jan 12, 2010 at 0:36

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Why is a topology made up of 'open' sets? Part II

answered Mar 28, 2010 at 2:04

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Good ways to engage in mathematics outreach?

answered Dec 28, 2010 at 19:28

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Explicit embeddings of Cappell-Shaneson knots

answered Jul 23, 2011 at 0:36

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Surface Eversions: Generalizing from Sphere and Torus Eversions

answered May 12, 2012 at 1:47

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Is every virtual knot group an HNN extension?

answered Feb 6, 2011 at 21:23

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Intuition on finite homotopy groups

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Can infinity shorten proofs a lot?

Teaching statements for math jobs?

How to write math well?

Intuitive crutches for higher dimensional thinking

Why study Lie algebras?

Plagiarism in the community

What precisely Is "Categorification"?

How does the work of a pure mathematician impact society?

Which mathematical ideas have done most to change history?

Taking lecture notes in lectures

How to balance writing professionally and being able to have a conversation with your reader?

Why do Bernoulli numbers arise everywhere?

Griffiths and Harris reference

Creating high quality figures of surfaces

Does it ever make sense NOT to go to the most prestigious grad school you can get into?

Should the formula for the inverse of a 2x2 matrix be obvious?

third stable homotopy group of spheres via geometry?

What do the stable homotopy groups of spheres say about the combinatorics of finite sets?

What is the Implicit Function Theorem good for?

Has anyone tabulated 2-knots? Would anyone like to try?

How to respond to "I was never much good at maths at school."

Higher order quandle

What is an immersed submanifold?

How seriously should a graduate student take teaching evaluations?

Why is a topology made up of 'open' sets? Part II

Good ways to engage in mathematics outreach?

Explicit embeddings of Cappell-Shaneson knots

Surface Eversions: Generalizing from Sphere and Torus Eversions

Is every virtual knot group an HNN extension?

Intuition on finite homotopy groups