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[SOLVED] Thinking and Explaining
- 2010-09-14 02:13:50
- Bill Thurston
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[SOLVED] What is an integrable system
- 2009-11-21 17:18:12
- Gil Kalai
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[SOLVED] Examples of eventual counterexamples
- 2010-02-16 13:00:56
- Q.Q.J.
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[SOLVED] Fundamental Examples
- 2009-11-11 07:52:13
- Gil Kalai
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[SOLVED] What notions are used but not clearly defined in modern mathematics?
- 2011-02-25 20:43:24
- kakaz
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[SOLVED] How to unify various reconstruction theorems (Gabriel-Rosenberg, Tannaka,Balmers)
- 2010-02-24 12:18:05
- Shizhuo Zhang
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[SOLVED] What is the high-concept explanation on why real numbers are useful in number theory?
- 2011-04-14 02:40:59
- Daniel Moskovich
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[SOLVED] What advantage humans have over computers in mathematics?
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- Māris Ozols
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[SOLVED] Are there any "homotopical spaces"?
- 2010-04-17 15:00:07
- Qfwfq
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[SOLVED] Proposals for polymath projects
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- Gil Kalai
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[SOLVED] Experimental mathematics leading to major advances
- 2010-01-17 07:59:45
- Gil Kalai
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[SOLVED] Why do Bernoulli numbers arise everywhere?
- 2011-04-11 02:41:06
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[SOLVED] What recent discoveries have amateur mathematicians made?
- 2010-10-30 14:20:24
- Daniel Geisler
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[SOLVED] Theorems that are 'obvious' but hard to prove
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- Alec Edgington
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[SOLVED] Collection of equivalent forms of Riemann Hypothesis
- 2010-09-25 12:29:06
- Jon Bannon
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[SOLVED] What precisely Is "Categorification"?
- 2009-11-10 11:22:23
- Gil Kalai
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[SOLVED] Mathematics of path integral: state of the art
- 2010-03-27 09:19:00
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[SOLVED] Why is Set, and not Rel, so ubiquitous in mathematics?
- 2013-02-07 00:51:04
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[SOLVED] Grothendieck's manuscript on topology
- 2011-11-28 14:32:44
- Thomas Riepe
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[SOLVED] "Softness" vs "rigidity" in Geometry
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[SOLVED] When has discrete understanding preceded continuous?
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- Joseph O'Rourke
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[SOLVED] Why are finiteness conditions important (and how to recognize them)?
- 2011-05-02 18:09:49
- Yuhao Huang
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[SOLVED] Coefficients of Weil Cohomology Theories
- 2012-04-28 17:57:43
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[SOLVED] Why are some q-analogues more canonical than others?
- 2012-03-01 23:25:27
- Wolfgang
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[SOLVED] Explaining Mukai-Fourier transforms physically
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- Tom Copeland
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[SOLVED] On Bailey–Borwein–Plouffe formula for irrational numbers
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[SOLVED] Duality of eta product identities: a new idea?
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- Wolfgang
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[SOLVED] Your favorite surprising connections in Mathematics
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- Victor Miller
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[SOLVED] Why are modular forms interesting?
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