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What's the famous story about a mathematician who gave a talk without saying a word?

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What is the difference between a statement and a proposition?

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Common Core, threat or menace? Or maybe ok after all?

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Did du Bois-Reymond invent the diagonal argument before Cantor?

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What are the origins of Galileo's paradox?

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Can the order relation on $\mathbb{R}$ be recovered from the topology?

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Do humans have skills we haven't discovered yet?

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Is actual infinity physical infinity? Or just the axiom of infinity?

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What are functions in the Peano axioms?

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Well-orderings of $\mathbb R$ without Choice

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