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Japanese/Chinese for mathematicians?

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Why are fusion categories interesting?

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There is a nice theory of quadratic forms. How about cubic forms, quartic forms, quintic forms, ...?

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Interesting mathematical topics arising from biology

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Hirzebruch's motivation of the Todd class

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Why is "abelian" infrequently capitalized?

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Facts from algebraic geometry that are useful to non-algebraic geometers

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Is a subgroup of a free abelian group free abelian?

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Does anyone still seriously doubt the consistency of $ZFC$?

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Applications of Euler-Cauchy ODEs

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Can you efficiently solve a system of quadratic multivariate polynomials?

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Maps to projective space determined by a line bundle

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Explicit Hamel basis of real numbers

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What exactly is the relation between string theory and conformal field theory?

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Proving that a poset is a lattice

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Jean Bourgain's relatively lesser known significant contributions

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Induction and Coinduction of Representations

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What is Realistic Mathematics?

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Does any research mathematics involve solving functional equations?

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Research-level mathematical bookstores

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Do mathematicians rely on senses other than vision and hearing?

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How to picture $\mathbb{C}_p$?

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Uniformly Sampling from Convex Polytopes

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Set of rational numbers generated by some rules

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Has the mathematical content of Grothendieck's "Récoltes et Semailles" been used?

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split polygon into minimum amount of rectangles and triangles

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Smooth vs regular vs non-singular

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Fast turn-around times

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List of Classifying Spaces and Covers

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Infinite tensor products

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Motivation for and history of pseudo-differential operators

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Small ideas that became big

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What is the best reference for Spectral theory?

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What is the actual meaning of a fractional derivative?

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KL divergence and mixture of Gaussians

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A clear map of mathematical approaches to Artificial Intelligence

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Has the mathematics research community ever been led astray by a dumb mistake?

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Are dagger categories truly evil?

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What is the order of a in (Z/nZ)*?

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Derivative of eigenvectors of a matrix with respect to its components

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When is $A$ isomorphic to $A^3$?

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Kahler differentials and Ordinary Differentials

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What actually is the idea behind the condensed mathematics?

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Why do we care about the Hilbert scheme of points?

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Finite axiom of choice: how do you prove it from just ZF?

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Publishing a Simple Paper as an Undergraduate

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Why is the Gaussian so pervasive in mathematics?

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Counterexamples in algebraic topology?

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Open problems in algebraic topology and homotopy theory

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Groups with all subgroups normal

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Looking for an introductory textbook on algebraic geometry for an undergraduate lecture course

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The letter $\wp$; Name & origin?

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Recreational mathematics: where to search?

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Approximation with continuous functions

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Possibility of an Elementary Differential Geometry Course

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Categories First Or Categories Last In Basic Algebra?

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Conway's game of life for random initial position

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"In the sequel" - outdated mathematical jargon or precise technical term? [closed]

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Roadmap for Mirror Symmetry

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