Stack Exchange

Richard Stanley

http://math.mit.edu/~rstan

top accounts reputation activity subscriptions
Top Questions
185 votes

Magic trick based on deep mathematics

soft-question big-list popularization asked Dec 25, 2009 at 22:07
mathoverflow.net

98 votes

Theorems with unexpected conclusions

soft-question big-list asked Mar 13, 2010 at 21:15
mathoverflow.net

65 votes

Decidability of chess on an infinite board

lo.logic combinatorial-game-theory chess infinite-games asked Jun 12, 2010 at 19:51
mathoverflow.net

62 votes

Most intricate and most beautiful structures in mathematics

big-list soft-question asked Dec 12, 2010 at 17:52
mathoverflow.net

57 votes

Recent observation of gravitational waves

ap.analysis-of-pdes mp.mathematical-physics na.numerical-analysis general-relativity inverse-problems asked Feb 13, 2016 at 20:22
mathoverflow.net

53 votes

The "square root" of a graph?

co.combinatorics graph-theory generating-functions asked Mar 1, 2021 at 22:05
mathoverflow.net

45 votes

Combinatorial interpretation of ${i\choose n}$, where $i^2=-1$

co.combinatorics asked Dec 14, 2012 at 1:43
mathoverflow.net

41 votes

Density of values of polynomials in two variables

nt.number-theory open-problem asked Nov 10, 2010 at 2:32
mathoverflow.net

23 votes

On an asymptotic formula of Keating and Snaith involving the Riemann zeta function

nt.number-theory rt.representation-theory riemann-zeta-function symmetric-group young-tableaux asked Sep 1, 2016 at 0:58
mathoverflow.net

22 votes

Number of terms in certain polynomials over $\mathbb{F}_2$

co.combinatorics asked Jan 20, 2014 at 21:14
mathoverflow.net

1 2 3 4 5 … 8

Top Answers
204
What are the worst notations, in your opinion?
mathoverflow.net

167
Examples of eventual counterexamples
mathoverflow.net

142
Have any long-suspected irrational numbers turned out to be rational?
mathoverflow.net

105
Examples of common false beliefs in mathematics
mathoverflow.net

104
Suggestions for good notation
mathoverflow.net

66
Why were matrix determinants once such a big deal?
mathoverflow.net

62
Not especially famous, long-open problems which anyone can understand
mathoverflow.net

61
Examples of common false beliefs in mathematics
mathoverflow.net

59
What is the shortest program for which halting is unknown?
mathoverflow.net

59
Most interesting mathematics mistake?
mathoverflow.net

55
How many surjections are there from a set of size n?
mathoverflow.net

53
What's your favorite equation, formula, identity or inequality?
mathoverflow.net

51
Why 'excedances' of permutations?
mathoverflow.net

51
What are the external triumphs of matroid theory?
mathoverflow.net

51
Pseudonyms of famous mathematicians
mathoverflow.net

49
Is all ordinary mathematics contained in high school mathematics?
mathoverflow.net

48
Tweetable Mathematics
mathoverflow.net

48
Not especially famous, long-open problems which anyone can understand
mathoverflow.net

48
Theorems that are 'obvious' but hard to prove
mathoverflow.net

46
Proposals for polymath projects
mathoverflow.net

43
Mathematicians who were late learners?-list
mathoverflow.net

41
Jokes in the sense of Littlewood: examples?
mathoverflow.net

38
What is Lagrange Inversion good for?
mathoverflow.net

36
What are some correct results discovered with incorrect (or no) proofs?
mathoverflow.net

34
Partitions to different parts not exceeding $n$
mathoverflow.net

33
Which popular games are the most mathematical?
mathoverflow.net

33
Polynomial representing all nonnegative integers
mathoverflow.net

33
What are the most attractive Turing undecidable problems in mathematics?
mathoverflow.net

33
Which polynomial's roots are its coefficients?
mathoverflow.net

31
Linear algebra proofs in combinatorics?
mathoverflow.net

1 2 3 4 5 … 10