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How can a mathematician handle the pressure to discover something new?
Mar 11, 2018
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Are there any serious investigations of whether "mathematicians do their best work when they're young"?
Jan 2, 2015
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PhD dissertations that solve an established open problem
Apr 24, 2018
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"Surprising" examples of Markov chains
Oct 20, 2016
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Should water at the scale of a cell feel more like tar?
Aug 3, 2020
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What are some noteworthy "mic-drop" moments in math?
Mar 10, 2019
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The most outrageous (or ridiculous) conjectures in mathematics
Jan 17, 2017
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Is this differential identity known?
Jun 3, 2015
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What’s the etiquette on using diagrams that need color to be understood?
Apr 1, 2018
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Note rejected from arXiv: what to do next?
Apr 10, 2020
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Why did I learn to write the base of the logarithm differently from the rest of the world?
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Symbolic integration error
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What was the answer to this paradox before Cantor?
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Ranked voting by a committee when some members cannot vote for a particular candidate because of a conflict of interest
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Symbolic sum of Stirling numbers gives wrong answer

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