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John Bentin
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Is this a known question about the expression of a function on $\Bbb R^2$ as an infinite sum of products?
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Can a unit square be cut into rectangles that tile a rectangle with irrational sides?
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Is Cauchy induction used for proofs other than for AM–GM?
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What are some reasonable-sounding statements that are independent of ZFC?
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The work of mathematicians outside their professional environment
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How fast can the base-bumping function in Goodstein's theorem grow?
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Is there a mathematical and information theoretic explanation for this cube packing phenomenon?
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Proofs where higher dimension or cardinality actually enabled much simpler proof?
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Is there a known condition for partial sums of a decreasing positive sequence to take all values up to the total sum?
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