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6 votes
2 answers
1k views

Is perfect play possible in continuous rock-paper-scissors? game "step size" vs. "acceleration"

44 votes
15 answers
28k views

What are the applications of hypergraphs?

77 votes
28 answers
10k views

Good papers/books/essays about the thought process behind mathematical research

8 votes
3 answers
2k views

Estimating the fractal dimension of a point cloud

28 votes
7 answers
8k views

Solving NP problems in (usually) Polynomial time?

50 votes
7 answers
23k views

Is all non-convex optimization heuristic?

28 votes
11 answers
7k views

Does the Axiom of Choice (or any other "optional" set theory axiom) have real-world consequences? [closed]

11 votes
12 answers
8k views

Graphs with fractal properties?

10 votes
5 answers
1k views

Visual representation of mathematical research interrelationships

47 votes
4 answers
6k views

How much reading do you do before you attack a problem?

6 votes
1 answer
2k views

What can be said about an infinite linear chain of conjugate prior distributions?

10 votes
10 answers
1k views

Is there any straightforward way to substitute for Gaussian/Brownian assumptions in financial mathematics?

16 votes
12 answers
18k views

How important are publications for undergrads?

4 votes
3 answers
3k views

Statistical physics of string theory

2 votes
1 answer
126 views

Are there intuitive/classically algorithmic analogues to Semidefinite programs on networks?

0 votes
0 answers
266 views

L1-regularized Least Squares on a matrix with Toeplitz Blocks (not block-Toeplitz)

3 votes
1 answer
355 views

Mathematical Programming with other Algebras than Linear

13 votes
7 answers
1k views

Probabilistic (and other mathematical) methods of physics without the physics?

1 vote
2 answers
438 views

Optimizing directly on the eigenspectrum of a matrix

0 votes
2 answers
532 views

What function smoothly interpolates between the identity and exponential (or log and identity) functions? [closed]

1 vote
1 answer
1k views

Best Practices for Learning Mathematics (especially in the classroom) [closed]

4 votes
0 answers
772 views

Compressed Sensing with an Unusual Basis

2 votes
0 answers
1k views

Good sources for linear algebra for convex optimization and graph analysis?

8 votes
2 answers
853 views

Shortest Paths on fractals

1 vote
1 answer
449 views

Algorithm for generating a size k error-correcting code on n bits

1 vote
0 answers
552 views

Cluster-preserving and distance-maximizing embedding into Hamming Space?

2 votes
2 answers
1k views

Mathematics of the Anthropic Principle [closed]

1 vote
0 answers
264 views

Learning statistical mechanics for non-particle phenomena

4 votes
1 answer
788 views

What do you see as the future frontiers of mathematics? [closed]

4 votes
2 answers
699 views

Mathematical means of studying large and complex but finite systems?