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Henry Cohn

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Why do Bernoulli numbers arise everywhere?
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How fast can we *really* multiply matrices?
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What would be some major consequences of the inconsistency of ZFC?
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The gimbal lock shows up in my quaternions
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How closed-form conjectures are made?
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What items MUST appear on a mathematician's CV?
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How to explain the concentration-of-measure phenomenon intuitively?
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Resources for mathematics advising.
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Can a pre-calculus student prove this?
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Understanding sphere packing in higher dimensions
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When does symmetry in an optimization problem imply that all variables are equal at optimality?
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Evidence for integer factorization is in $P$
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What happened to online articles published in K-theory (Springer journal)?
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Is there a “mathematical” definition of “simplify”?
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Optimal sphere packings ==> Thinnest ball coverings?
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How should an analytic number theorist look at Bessel functions?
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Which hard mathematical problems do you have to solve to earn bitcoins ?
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Dense sphere packings which are not lattice packings
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I would like to have a counter example that Peano's theorem does not apply to spaces with infinite dimension
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What is the largest possible thirteenth kissing sphere?
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Can the Legendre symbol be calculated in polynomial time?
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Best known bounds on tensor rank of matrix multiplication of 3×3 matrices
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Deep theorems and long proofs
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Do you use the Mathematics Subject Classification (MSC) when searching for literature?
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Encrypting a message for multiple recipients
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Niemeier lattices and theta functions
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Could this unexpected bias in the distribution of consecutive primes have any impact on the security of encryption algorithms?
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Series representation for Euler-Mascheroni constant
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Are isospectral manifolds necessarily homeomorphic?
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Unit fraction, equally spaced denominators not integer
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