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Will Jagy

Berkeley, CA

zakuski.utsa.edu/~jagy

Age: 56

I put an email address here and intended it to be visible. In case it is not, search with my last name at http://www.ams.org/cml/

Also see me at http://mathoverflow.net/users/3324/will-jagy

If people would include the source of a given problem as part of the process of posting a question, life would get a little easier.

It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid. (George Bernard Shaw).

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Can an irrational number raised to an irrational power be rational?
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Prove that if two miles are run in 7:59 then one mile MUST be run under 4:00.
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Is it morally right and pedagogically right to google answers to homework?
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Integer solutions of $x! = y! + z!$
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a big number that is obviously prime?
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Is the notorious $n^2 + n + 41$ prime generator the last of its type?
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How do you find the center of a circle with a pencil and a book?
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What do modern-day analysts actually do?
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What it the fastest/most efficient algorithm for estimating Euler's Constant $\gamma$?
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Primes of form $\frac {(4^m+1)}{5}$
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Solve $y^2= x^3 − 33$ in integers
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$\sin(A)$, where $A$ is a matrix
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Find the remainder of $1234^{5678}\bmod 13$
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Given a matrix, is there always another matrix which commutes with it?
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Matrices with $A^3+B^3=C^3$
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Is $\lim\limits_{k\to\infty}\sum\limits_{n=k+1}^{2k}{\frac{1}{n}} = 0$?
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A better approximation of $H_n $
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How to find the function $f$ given $f(f(x)) = xf(x)$?
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What is the modern axiomatization of (Euclidean) plane geometry?
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10
The integral $\int_0^1 \frac{(x+1)^n-1}{x} dx$
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Is $\operatorname{sinc} x$ the only one?
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Algebraic Solution to $\cos(\pi x) + x^2 = 0$
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Computing very high powers of a particular Jordan block
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How to find solutions of $x^2-3y^2=-2$?
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If two primes differ by $n$, then infinitely many primes differ by $n$
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What's the best way to detect an algebraic number?
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Another quadratic Diophantine equation: How do I proceed?
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Integers of the form $a^2+b^2+c^3+d^3$
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Is the set of all Heisenberg Matrices Connected?
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How can I get sequence $4,4,2,4,4,2,4,4,2\ldots$ into equation?
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