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Did Emmy Noether ever publish under a man's name?
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Publication rates in Mathematics
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Theorems first published in textbooks?
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How good is Kamenetsky's formula for the number of digits in n-factorial?
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Unmathematical habits of thought and action which would be of use to mathematicians
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Can you really construct a Möbius strip from this model?
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What's the simplest rational not expressible as a sum of a given number of unit fractions?
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Are there uncountably many cube-free infinite binary words?
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First occurrence of “by the usual compactness argument”?
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Is there a non-trivial knot with trivial Homfly polynomial?
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Can I use my powers for good?
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Can you give an example of a complex math problem that is easy to solve?
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What is $48\div2(9+3)$?
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Nonequivalent definitions in Mathematics
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Examples of eventual counterexamples
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111
The most outrageous (or ridiculous) conjectures in mathematics
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Awfully sophisticated proof for simple facts
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Is there any conjecture that has been proved to be solvable/provable but whose direct solution/proof is not yet known?
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Conway's lesser-known results
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What does proving the Riemann Hypothesis accomplish?
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Rediscovery of lost mathematics
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Union of two vector subspaces not a subspace?
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Mathematical “urban legends”
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Turning coins on a chessboard
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Uninteresting questions with interesting answers
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Counterexamples in Algebra?
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What did Ramanujan get wrong?
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Mathematical “urban legends”
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Jokes in the sense of Littlewood: examples?
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Understandable questions which are hard for non-mathematicians but easy for mathematicians
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Jokes in the sense of Littlewood: examples?
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Examples of “unsuccessful” theories with afterlives
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Easy explanation of analytic continuation
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Intuitive Understanding of the constant “$e$”
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For which $n$ is there only one group of order $n$?
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I need mathematical proof that the distance from zero to 1 is the equal to the distance from 1 to 2
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Does pi contain 1000 consecutive zeroes (in base 10)?
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Counterexamples in Algebra?
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