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C Monsour

Chicago, IL, USA

Studied math in grad school. I've been working in the corporate world the last 20+ years but still love math.

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What were paper airplanes called before there were real airplanes? (i.e. untethered winged flyers, not kites or balloons)
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Have any kings ever been serving admirals?
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Did the Byzantines ever attempt to move their capital to Rome?
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In classical geometry why is a line considered to be parallel to itself?
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Why is it important for a matrix to be square?
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How to correctly say Star Wars in Latin?
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What were Germany's long-term aims in World War I?
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Which countries (or comparable geographical units) have a lower population now than they used to at some point in history before 1950?
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Is there any example of one country devastating a third?
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Why is $\operatorname{Var}[X]≤(b−a)^2/4$ if $X$ is a random variable with values between $[a,b]$
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Is there a reason why $Z(G)$ is named the "centre" of a group?
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Why did the United States not resort to nuclear weapons in Vietnam?
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Were there any monarchs of England or the United Kingdom who were not technically first in the line of succession?
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What authority did the Catholic Church have over European monarchs from 900–1450?
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Translation of "Love makes it grow" in Latin for my tattoo
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Problem in the "proof" of Eisenstein's criterion on irreducibility.
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Why is there a difference between life-insurance and general (non-life) insurance mathematics?
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Are there any gambits which yield an advantage for the side down material?
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How can there be a "final edition" of a morning paper, in the morning?
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Covering a sphere with spherical caps
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What is the abelianization of $\langle x,y,z\mid x^2=y^2z^2\rangle?$
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Why did the person in charge of a principality not just declare themself king?
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Why distinguish u/v but not i/j?
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Why speak in Latin in 2020?
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Has an heir ever made the country believe the current ruler died in order to take over the throne?
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What was the persecuted group that was formally banned from leaving France?
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In Dutch history two people are referred to as "William III"; are there any more cases where this happens?
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Integer solutions to the non linear Diophantine equation $x^5+y^5=47$
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Does there exist a measurable function with a specific property?
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Proof about relatively prime numbers.
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