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I recently discovered that a late friend of mine, who was a student of Bartel Leendert van der Waerden, was actually my mathematical great grandfather. This made van der Waerden my mathematical great great grandfather. I was amused but in the meantime also embarassed, as my knowledge in abstract algebra was (and still is, to be frank) so pedestrian.

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Bounties to reward not answers, but questions
Apr 24, 2015
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Guerilla reposting of a question that no one answered
Sep 7, 2015
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Which question on MSE has the most failed attempts?
Jun 23, 2016
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Do people care about their answers being unaccepted when the OP decides to accept a different answer?
Jun 30, 2013
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About not upvoted, answered questions
Sep 17, 2013
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How to produce a list of my own deleted answers? [duplicate]
Jun 22, 2013
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Markdown for obtaining the question title from URL
Feb 4, 2015
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Is it bad form to answer a question using someone else's previous comment(s)?
Sep 26, 2014
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Time lag in bounty period
May 18, 2014
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How to deal with duplicate bounty questions?
Oct 9, 2013
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Looking for an intuitive explanation why the row rank is equal to the column rank for a matrix
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Python defaultdict and lambda
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On the functional square root of $x^2+1$
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Expressing the determinant of a sum of two matrices?
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If $A,B$ have eigenvalues $\pm1$, what can I say about the eigenvalues of $AB,BA$?