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José Carlos Santos
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I am a mathematician who works at the University of Porto (Portugal). My PhD, on Representation Theory, was obtained at the Université Paris — Denis Diderot, in 1996.

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Why were the Allies so much better cryptanalysts?
Nov 22, 2020
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Could a German insult Hitler without being arrested?
Dec 15, 2019
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What is the context for Napoleon's quote "[the Austrians] did not know the value of five minutes"?
Jun 13, 2019
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Who was the last leader of a country to call himself a dictator, or the last regime that called itself a dictatorship?
Nov 8, 2021
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In what way were Renaissance battles like chess matches?
Oct 29, 2019
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How likely it is that a nobleman of the eighteenth century would give written instructions to his maids?
Jan 24, 2021
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Have any astronauts or cosmonauts died in space?
Feb 20, 2019
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Why did Europeans (and not people in other regions) dominate oceans?
Jun 8, 2018
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Has there ever been a peaceful overthrow of a dictator or monarch?
Sep 21, 2018
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Did Emanuel Lasker write a book declaring that Germany had to win World War I if civilization were to be saved?
Sep 12, 2018
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Why not include as a requirement that all functions must be continuous to be differentiable?
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Why was "An Update to our Community and an Apology" deleted?
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Unexpected examples of natural logarithm
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How can a "proper" function have a vertical slope?
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Does an increasing sequence of reals converge if the difference of consecutive terms approaches zero?