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Examples of common false beliefs in mathematics

Video lectures of mathematics courses available online for free

Widely accepted mathematical results that were later shown to be wrong?

Which journals publish expository work?

A single paper everyone should read? [closed]

Awfully sophisticated proof for simple facts [closed]

Best algebraic geometry textbook? (other than Hartshorne)

Fundamental Examples

If $f$ is infinitely differentiable then $f$ coincides with a polynomial

Is $\mathbb R^3$ the square of some topological space?

Ways to prove the fundamental theorem of algebra

What is torsion in differential geometry intuitively?

What are your favorite instructional counterexamples?

Examples of great mathematical writing

Best online mathematics videos?

Examples of eventual counterexamples

Do you know important theorems that remain unknown?

Proofs of Bott periodicity

Generalizing a problem to make it easier

How To Present Mathematics To Non-Mathematicians?

What is an integrable system

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Old books you would like to have reprinted with high-quality typesetting

A soft introduction to physics for mathematicians who don't know the first thing about physics

Important formulas in combinatorics

Math puzzles for dinner [closed]

When is the tensor product of two fields a field?

Homotopy groups of Lie groups

Statistics for mathematicians

Topology and the 2016 Nobel Prize in Physics