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Gromov's thesis: Any property holding for all finitely generated groups must hold for trivial reasons

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Why is it so difficult to define constructive cardinality?

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How does the mathematical community handle minor, non-critical errors in published papers?

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Have you seen my power series?

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What is the group of homotopy classes from the 4-torus to the 3-sphere?

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Sum and sum of cubes are both perfect cubes

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What is this modified arithmetico-geometric mean function?

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Where did this Pólya's theorem appear?

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Reference request of quote about Gromov

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Is there an “opposite” hypothesis to the (Generalized) Continuum Hypothesis?

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When does the vanishing of $\pi_2$ imply asphericity of complex manifolds?

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Asymptotics of alternating sum of squared binomials by contour integration

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Diagonalizing Pascal's triangle

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Why isn’t the weak-* topology normed?

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Is there a simple convex 3D polytope with an odd number of facets, all of which have an even number of sides?

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What is the optimal constant for $\|f\|_{L^\infty}\leq C\|f\|_{L^2}^{1/2}\|f'\|_{L^2}^{1/2}$?

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When are two fourdimensional real vector bundles isomorphic?

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Does $x^3 + 1$ factor as a functor?

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Function to measure consonance and dissonance in musical tones

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Is there a more abstract or unified way to write the modulus condition in constructive definitions of real numbers?

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The Gaussian cubic for $4p = L^2 + 27M^2$

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On the strength of ZFC with Replacement removed and an ordinal construction axiom instead

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Two square matrices $A, B$ such that $A^k, B^k$ have identical diagonals for all $k$

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Preperiod of powers of matrices modulo m

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Locally isomorphic graphs

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Who first defined vector fields as derivations?

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Quotient groups of two finite groups

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Matrices with many traceless powers

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Configurations of injections and surjections (without choice)

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Mean Value Theorem 2.0

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Explicit smooth complex projective variety with fundamental group the finite cyclic group $C_d$

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An identity involving binomial coefficients

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Missing factor of 10 in derivation for integral form of ζ(3)

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Where can I find a reference table for ordinal arithmetic?

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Algebraic proof that the left Maurer-Cartan form is well defined

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Representations of the Burnside ring over a field of positive characteristic

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Examples of functions that vanish on a closed convex region and are positive outside

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Best strategy to reach a half-plane without a compass

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A correspondence between group extensions trivializing a cocycle, and a cocycle valued in the dual group [closed]

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Definition of the stack of hyperelliptic curves

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On positive integers not representable as $ax^k+by^l+cz^m$

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Positivity of integral

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Intersection of ball and a sphere is connected in the normed vector space

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Chern classes in Čech cohomology

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Is every multiplicative lattice isomorphic to the lattice of ideals of some ring?

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Does the converse of Schur's lemma hold for smooth representations of finite length of p-adic group?

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Is this cyclically pinched one-relator group fully residually free?

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Solution(s) to $36n^3 - 19 = xy \cdot (y + 2(6n + x))$


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