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Daniel Asimov
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46 votes

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

35 votes

Why worry about the axiom of choice?

27 votes

Examples of common false beliefs in mathematics

19 votes

What are some correct results discovered with incorrect (or no) proofs?

15 votes

Why do dynamicists worry so much about differentiability hypotheses in smooth dynamics?

13 votes

Examples of common false beliefs in mathematics

10 votes

What is a foliation and why should I care?

6 votes

Who is the last mathematician that understood all of mathematics.

4 votes
Accepted

Noninteger iterates of functions: How to get ODE from flow at a given time?

4 votes

Google question: In a country in which people only want boys

4 votes
Accepted

Smooth mapping from $\mathrm{RP}^2$ to $\mathbb{R}^3$ with nonsingular derivative

3 votes

Which mathematicians have influenced you the most?

3 votes

A problem of an infinite number of balls and an urn

2 votes

Analytic ODE with complex time

2 votes

Can a mathematical definition be wrong?

2 votes

Complementary integrable vector fields

2 votes

Examples of bad notation and its consequences

2 votes

Identifying the conformal equivalence class of a 2-torus subgroup of the cubical 3-torus

1 vote

Are there other nice math books close to the style of Tristan Needham?

1 vote

Does for every vector field there always exist a volume form for which the vector field is a homothety?

1 vote

Which manifolds admit a diffeomorphism of order $n$?

0 votes

Google question: In a country in which people only want boys

0 votes

What are examples of mathematical concepts named after the wrong people? (Stigler's law)

-2 votes

Vector field on 3-sphere