Gerry Myerson

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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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26 votes

How good is Kamenetsky's formula for the number of digits in n-factorial?

nt.number-theory computational-number-theo asked Mar 24 '10 at 2:42

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21 votes

Can you really construct a Möbius strip from this model?

general-topology algebraic-topology asked Nov 1 '11 at 0:57

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Unmathematical habits of thought and action which would be of use to mathematicians

sociology-of-math asked Sep 7 '11 at 13:34

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20 votes

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 '10 at 7:22

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20 votes

Are there uncountably many cube-free infinite binary words?

co.combinatorics symbolic-dynamics combinatorics-on-words asked Apr 14 '11 at 1:05

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18 votes

First occurrence of “by the usual compactness argument”?

reference-request exposition asked Sep 30 '13 at 6:17

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Is there a non-trivial knot with trivial Homfly polynomial?

knot-theory asked May 24 '10 at 6:27

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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÷2(9+3)?

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Nonequivalent definitions in Mathematics

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Examples of eventual counterexamples

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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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Examples where existence is harder than evaluation

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Counterexamples in Algebra?

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Mathematical “urban legends”

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Understandable questions which are hard for non-mathematicians but easy for mathematicians

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What did Ramanujan get wrong?

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Easy explanation of analytic continuation

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Examples of eventual counterexamples

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Examples of “unsuccessful” theories with afterlives

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Jokes in the sense of Littlewood: examples?

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Jokes in the sense of Littlewood: examples?

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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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Counterexamples in Algebra?

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Does pi contain 1000 consecutive zeroes (in base 10)?

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Gerry Myerson

Did Emmy Noether ever publish under a man's name?

Publication rates in Mathematics

Theorems first published in textbooks?

How good is Kamenetsky's formula for the number of digits in n-factorial?

Can you really construct a Möbius strip from this model?

Unmathematical habits of thought and action which would be of use to mathematicians

What's the simplest rational not expressible as a sum of a given number of unit fractions?

Are there uncountably many cube-free infinite binary words?

First occurrence of “by the usual compactness argument”?

Is there a non-trivial knot with trivial Homfly polynomial?