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Which popular games are the most mathematical?

big-list soft-question recreational-mathematics game-theory asked Feb 1, 2010 at 9:42

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Heuristically false conjectures

nt.number-theory pr.probability soft-question asked Jan 16, 2010 at 10:52

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Error in normal approximation to a uniform sum distribution

normal-distribution central-limit-theorem moments approximation asked Jun 14, 2012 at 17:25

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Combinatorial sequences whose ratios $a_{n+1}/a_{n}$ are integers

co.combinatorics big-list asked Jan 25, 2010 at 21:11

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Random permutations from Brownian motion

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What is the distance between a finite Gaussian mixture and a Gaussian?

normal-distribution mixture distance asked Sep 10, 2012 at 11:15

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11 votes

Expected value of a Gaussian random variable transformed with a logistic function

distributions normal-distribution neural-networks mathematical-statistics expected-value asked Dec 6, 2012 at 13:09

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What are the limits of the Erdős-Rankin method for covering intervals by arithmetic progressions?

additive-combinatorics arithmetic-progression nt.number-theory asked Aug 25, 2012 at 19:51

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Ordered geometries from convex subsets of the plane

mg.metric-geometry geometry asked Feb 3, 2010 at 13:40

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Incorrect evaluation for Thue-Morse signed harmonic series

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Google question: In a country in which people only want boys

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Why does the Cauchy distribution have no mean?

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Which mathematicians have influenced you the most?

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What are good initial weights in a neural network?

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Does the variance of a sum equal the sum of the variances?

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What are your favorite instructional counterexamples?

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Why is it hard to prove that the Euler Mascheroni constant is irrational?

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Which popular games are the most mathematical?

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Examples of theorems misapplied to non-mathematical contexts

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Most harmful heuristic?

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What advantage humans have over computers in mathematics?

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Simple probability question, balls and bins

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Cocktail party math

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What is the effect of adding 1/2 to a continued fraction?

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Most intricate and most beautiful structures in mathematics

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Theorems with unexpected conclusions

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How to prove that the radial basis function is a kernel?

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What is the probability that two random walkers will meet?

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Using neural network for trading in stock exchange

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Do the Baumslag-Solitar groups occur in nature?

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What "real life" problems can be solved using billiards?

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For a linear recurrence sequence $(u_n)_{n\geq 0}$, can $\{i \mid u_i > 0\}$ be the set of Fibonacci numbers?

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Is the matrix $\left({2m\choose 2j-i}\right)_{i,j=1}^{2m-1}$ nonsingular?

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How to express $(1+x+x^2+\cdots+x^m)^n$ as a power series?

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Structures that turn out to exhibit a symmetry even though their definition doesn't

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What relationship, if any, is there between the diameter of the Cayley graph and the average distance between group elements?

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Is a strong background in maths a total requisite for ML?

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the perimeter of a non-convex set

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Is there an algebraic formula for the eigenvalues of a symmetric $n\times n$ matrix?

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A point set of power series with coefficients in {-1, 1}. Connected or not?

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