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What are some examples of colorful language in serious mathematics papers?

answered Apr 23, 2010 at 13:39

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Are there primes of every Hamming weight?

answered Apr 27, 2010 at 16:01

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Philosophy behind Yitang Zhang's work on the Twin Primes Conjecture

answered May 21, 2013 at 16:01

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Walsh Fourier transform of the Möbius function

answered Mar 10, 2011 at 15:34

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How does one use the Poisson summation formula?

answered Jun 20, 2010 at 17:49

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Are all primes in a PAP-3?

answered Aug 2, 2010 at 20:25

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Arithmetic Progressions of Squares

answered Oct 24, 2011 at 13:08

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Proof of the weak Goldbach Conjecture

answered May 14, 2013 at 11:26

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Roth's theorem and Behrend's lower bound

answered May 7, 2011 at 17:40

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Can you cover the Boolean cube {0,1}^n with O(1) Hamming-balls each of radius n/2-c*sqrt(n)?

answered Jun 18, 2012 at 15:16

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Cliques, Paley graphs and quadratic residues

answered Oct 12, 2011 at 21:52

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Infimums of exponential sums involving primes

answered Oct 20, 2011 at 10:48

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Perron, Fourier

answered Mar 28, 2012 at 18:09

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Arbitrarily many primes in a Fibonacci-type sequence

answered Apr 28, 2016 at 8:27

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Given n k-element subsets of n, is there a small subset A of n which intersects them all?

answered May 17, 2010 at 23:19

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Is there a Plancherel Theorem for Gowers norms?

answered Dec 12, 2011 at 0:01

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Random projection and finite fields

answered May 4, 2010 at 14:24

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A learning roadmap for Additive combinatorics.

answered Nov 21, 2010 at 8:58

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Degree of commutativity of finite groups and subgroups

answered Mar 10, 2011 at 10:04

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explicit big linearly independent sets

answered May 1, 2010 at 21:29

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covering a square with unit squares

answered Jun 25, 2010 at 16:44

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minimum number of subsets?

answered Feb 3, 2012 at 16:03

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Has the following problem, resembling the lonely runner conjecture, been studied?

answered Jun 5, 2022 at 20:45

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Nonlinear equations in integers

answered May 22, 2012 at 14:15

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Intervals with large numbers of primes

answered May 26, 2010 at 17:20

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Does Weyl's Inequality prove equidistribution?

answered Aug 17, 2010 at 20:55

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Wanted: A constructive version of a theorem of Furstenberg and Weiss

answered Apr 29, 2010 at 0:29

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Algebraic geometry used "externally" (in problems without obvious algebraic structure).

answered Jun 25, 2010 at 18:07

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What are some examples of colorful language in serious mathematics papers?

Are there primes of every Hamming weight?

Philosophy behind Yitang Zhang's work on the Twin Primes Conjecture

Walsh Fourier transform of the Möbius function

How does one use the Poisson summation formula?

Are all primes in a PAP-3?

Arithmetic Progressions of Squares

Proof of the weak Goldbach Conjecture

Roth's theorem and Behrend's lower bound

Can you cover the Boolean cube {0,1}^n with O(1) Hamming-balls each of radius n/2-c*sqrt(n)?

Cliques, Paley graphs and quadratic residues

Infimums of exponential sums involving primes

Perron, Fourier

Arbitrarily many primes in a Fibonacci-type sequence

Given n k-element subsets of n, is there a small subset A of n which intersects them all?

Is there a Plancherel Theorem for Gowers norms?

Random projection and finite fields

A learning roadmap for Additive combinatorics.

Degree of commutativity of finite groups and subgroups

explicit big linearly independent sets

covering a square with unit squares

minimum number of subsets?

Has the following problem, resembling the lonely runner conjecture, been studied?

Nonlinear equations in integers

Intervals with large numbers of primes

Does Weyl's Inequality prove equidistribution?

Wanted: A constructive version of a theorem of Furstenberg and Weiss

Algebraic geometry used "externally" (in problems without obvious algebraic structure).