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Publication rates in Mathematics
soft-question
journals
sociology-of-math
unpublished
asked Oct 27, 2015 at 5:33
mathoverflow.net
42
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Did Emmy Noether ever publish under a man's name?
ho.history-overview
reference-request
asked Mar 28, 2012 at 4:06
mathoverflow.net
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Theorems first published in textbooks?
ho.history-overview
big-list
asked Sep 17, 2010 at 6:16
mathoverflow.net
26
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How good is Kamenetsky's formula for the number of digits in n-factorial?
nt.number-theory
computational-number-theo
asked Mar 24, 2010 at 2:42
mathoverflow.net
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Are there uncountably many cube-free infinite binary words?
co.combinatorics
symbolic-dynamics
combinatorics-on-words
asked Apr 14, 2011 at 1:05
mathoverflow.net
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Unmathematical habits of thought and action which would be of use to mathematicians
sociology-of-math
asked Sep 7, 2011 at 13:34
mathoverflow.net
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What's the simplest rational not expressible as a sum of a given number of unit fractions?
nt.number-theory
unit-fractions
asked Jul 28, 2010 at 7:22
mathoverflow.net
18
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Can you really construct a Möbius strip from this model?
general-topology
algebraic-topology
asked Nov 1, 2011 at 0:57
math.stackexchange.com
18
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First occurrence of "by the usual compactness argument"?
reference-request
exposition
asked Sep 30, 2013 at 6:17
mathoverflow.net
13
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Is there a non-trivial knot with trivial Homfly polynomial?
knot-theory
asked May 24, 2010 at 6:27
mathoverflow.net
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Can I use my powers for good?
math.stackexchange.com
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Can you give an example of a complex math problem that is easy to solve?
math.stackexchange.com
179
What is $48\div2(9+3)$?
math.stackexchange.com
178
Nonequivalent definitions in Mathematics
mathoverflow.net
162
Examples of eventual counterexamples
mathoverflow.net
131
The most outrageous (or ridiculous) conjectures in mathematics
mathoverflow.net
120
Awfully sophisticated proof for simple facts
mathoverflow.net
111
Is there any conjecture that has been proved to be solvable/provable but whose direct solution/proof is not yet known?
math.stackexchange.com
104
Conway's lesser-known results
mathoverflow.net
95
What does proving the Riemann Hypothesis accomplish?
math.stackexchange.com
87
Union of two vector subspaces not a subspace?
math.stackexchange.com
87
Rediscovery of lost mathematics
mathoverflow.net
67
Counterexamples in algebra?
mathoverflow.net
63
Easy explanation of analytic continuation
math.stackexchange.com
62
Mathematical "urban legends"
mathoverflow.net
61
Uninteresting questions with interesting answers
mathoverflow.net
61
Turning coins on a chessboard
math.stackexchange.com
60
Examples of eventual counterexamples
mathoverflow.net
60
Jokes in the sense of Littlewood: examples?
mathoverflow.net
59
What did Ramanujan get wrong?
mathoverflow.net
59
Examples where existence is harder than evaluation
mathoverflow.net
56
Counterexamples in algebra?
mathoverflow.net
55
Mathematical "urban legends"
mathoverflow.net
54
Jokes in the sense of Littlewood: examples?
mathoverflow.net
54
Understandable questions which are hard for non-mathematicians but easy for mathematicians
math.stackexchange.com
54
For which $n$ is there only one group of order $n$?
mathoverflow.net
53
Examples of "unsuccessful" theories with afterlives
mathoverflow.net
53
Intuitive Understanding of the constant "$e$"
math.stackexchange.com
52
Does pi contain 1000 consecutive zeroes (in base 10)?
mathoverflow.net
49
I need mathematical proof that the distance from zero to 1 is the equal to the distance from 1 to 2
math.stackexchange.com
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