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How undecidable is the spectral gap?

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Why did algebraic geometry need Alexander Grothendieck?

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What new mathematics was inspired by biology and chemistry?

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Was object oriented programming influenced by the mathematical category theory?

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What is the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum field theory?

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Who introduced random variables into probability?

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What attracted Einstein to the anomalous precession of Mercury?

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Who invented the integers?

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Why were geometers dissatisfied with the parallel postulate?

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How did "publish or perish" become the scientific priority rule?

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Are units of angle really dimensionless?

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

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Which fallacy: "If white privilege exists, why did Elizabeth Warren pretend to be an Indian?"

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What are the ethical problems with flipping a coin to decide in the trolley problem?

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What fallacy in Pascal's Wager allows replacing God with the devil?

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Why do we call Tycho Brahe by his first name?

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Why do I accept some inconsequential claims as "obviously true" without evidence? E.g. "Most people don't like to be hit on the head with a hammer."

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Why doesn't mathematical induction work backwards or with increments other than $1$?

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Big list: books where we "...start from a mathematically amorphous problem and combine ideas from sources to produce new mathematics..."

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What makes the right angle special enough to be distinguished in the French metric system?

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Secrecy in Mathematics

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Do all continuous real-valued functions determine the topology?

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Is complex analysis more "real" than real analysis?

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Why did the ancient Greeks originally become interested in conic sections?

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How did Ramanujan learn to do mathematics?

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What do you call the fallacy of thinking that some action A will guarantee some outcome B, when in reality B depends on multiple other conditions?

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What does "extension" mean in the Axiom of extension

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How was Einstein led to make a contact with Differential Geometry for his theory of General Relativity?

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Did president Garfield make any contributions to Mathematics?

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What was the motivation for Minkowski spacetime before special relativity?

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Why is Aristotle's objection not considered a resolution to Zeno's paradox?

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Who calculated for the first time the volume (and surface area) of the sphere exactly?

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Does every truth have to be provable based on evidence?

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Was Kolmogorov enraged after learning about the Karatsuba multiplication algorithm?

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When and why did the concept of relativistic mass become outdated?

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Which mathematician traveled to and moved in with each collaborator?

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Did Galileo Galilei believe in astrology?

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Why are gauge theories called so?

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What are quantum fields mathematically?

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What was the relationship between Einstein and Minkowski?

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