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Most harmful heuristic?

answered Feb 28, 2010 at 17:10

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

answered Sep 7, 2011 at 15:04

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Introductory text on Riemannian geometry

answered Mar 27, 2010 at 13:12

32 votes

Is it possible to partition $\mathbb R^3$ into unit circles?

answered Nov 27, 2010 at 14:56

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Why should one still teach Riemann integration?

answered Jan 22, 2011 at 14:57

12 votes

Taking "Zooming in on a point of a graph" seriously

answered Oct 4, 2011 at 22:27

11 votes

Learning roadmap for harmonic analysis

answered Jun 3, 2011 at 9:44

8 votes

Applications of Rademacher's Theorem

answered Mar 21, 2013 at 17:47

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What is the definition of "canonical"?

answered Mar 28, 2010 at 19:07

7 votes

Freshman's definition of sin(x)?

answered Sep 27, 2010 at 17:50

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Ingenuity in mathematics

answered Dec 15, 2010 at 18:32

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Is the derivative of a Lipschitz function better than L^\infty

answered Mar 4, 2011 at 23:19

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Which book would you like to see "texified"?

answered May 14, 2011 at 1:09

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Expressing any f(x,y) using only addition and unary functions?

answered Sep 1, 2010 at 12:27

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What should be taught in a 1st course on smooth manifolds?

answered Mar 20, 2011 at 23:46

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Classification of surfaces composed of circles

answered Nov 27, 2010 at 9:38

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Proving theorems by using functions with fixed points.

answered Jan 23, 2011 at 13:33

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What subfields of mathematics better lend themselves to visualization?

answered Jul 6, 2010 at 10:17

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Extremal curves with a "should pass through" constraint

answered Mar 19, 2011 at 15:20

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What is a reasonable finitary analogue of the statement that harmonic functions are smooth?

answered Jul 28, 2010 at 11:25

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Moments of a distribution - any use for partial or higher moments?

answered Sep 20, 2010 at 18:43

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Applications of connectedness

answered May 31, 2010 at 22:03

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Most harmful heuristic?

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

Introductory text on Riemannian geometry

Is it possible to partition $\mathbb R^3$ into unit circles?

Why should one still teach Riemann integration?

Taking "Zooming in on a point of a graph" seriously

Learning roadmap for harmonic analysis

Applications of Rademacher's Theorem

What is the definition of "canonical"?

Freshman's definition of sin(x)?

Ingenuity in mathematics

Is the derivative of a Lipschitz function better than L^\infty

Which book would you like to see "texified"?

Expressing any f(x,y) using only addition and unary functions?

What should be taught in a 1st course on smooth manifolds?

Classification of surfaces composed of circles

Proving theorems by using functions with fixed points.

What subfields of mathematics better lend themselves to visualization?

Extremal curves with a "should pass through" constraint

What is a reasonable finitary analogue of the statement that harmonic functions are smooth?

Moments of a distribution - any use for partial or higher moments?

Applications of connectedness