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Highest scoring answer that outscored an accepted answer with score of more than 10 by more than 2x. This badge can be awarded multiple times.
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Finite verification for theorems due to Busy Beaver numbers
Awarded Jul 16 at 5:08
Is the field of constructible numbers known to be decidable?
Awarded Jul 15 at 15:40
What invariants of a matrix or representation can be used to find its GL(n,Z)-conjugacy class?
Awarded Jun 23 at 23:40
History of the high-dimensional volume paradox
Awarded May 28 at 13:33
Why study finite topological spaces?
Awarded Nov 23, 2023 at 8:16
Solvable groups that are linear over $\mathbb{C}$ but not over $\mathbb{Q}$?
Awarded Nov 22, 2023 at 9:36
Is there a simple proof that a group of linear growth is quasi-isometric to Z?
Awarded Nov 9, 2023 at 15:52
History of right hand rule
Awarded Oct 12, 2023 at 19:22
How does one write the "gothic" letters ($\mathfrak{g}$) in handwriting?
Awarded Oct 10, 2023 at 10:26
What is the difference between elementary and non-elementary proofs of the Prime Number Theorem?
Awarded Apr 13, 2023 at 12:10
To prove irrationality, why integrate?
Awarded Apr 12, 2023 at 13:47
Does it make sense to talk about smooth bundles of Hilbert spaces?
Awarded Mar 30, 2023 at 14:42
Is the set of primes "translation-finite"?
Awarded Feb 2, 2023 at 2:40
Matrix representation for $F_4$
Awarded Dec 24, 2022 at 5:55
Eigenvalues of nonnegative integer matrices
Awarded Oct 25, 2022 at 19:31
Why are isometries of Minkowski space necessarily linear?
Awarded Oct 10, 2022 at 6:25
Any sum of 2 dice with equal probability
Awarded Jul 19, 2022 at 7:36
What do we gain with higher order logics?
Awarded Jun 18, 2022 at 19:25
Is projectiveness a Zariski-local property of modules? (Answered: Yes!)
Awarded Apr 6, 2022 at 7:46
Vanishing of Euler class
Awarded Feb 10, 2022 at 11:53
How many square roots can a non-identity element in a group have?
Awarded Dec 16, 2021 at 21:56
What are examples of (collections of) papers which "close" a field?
Awarded Nov 27, 2021 at 1:31
Latest results in chromatic homotopy theory
Awarded Nov 24, 2021 at 11:25
13 months and not even one report. what would you do?
Awarded Nov 19, 2021 at 22:42
Strange result about convexity
Awarded Nov 1, 2021 at 1:10
Fundamental groups of noncompact surfaces
Awarded Oct 24, 2021 at 10:16
Is a functor which has a left adjoint which is also its right adjoint an equivalence ?
Awarded Oct 8, 2021 at 15:02
Putnam 2020 inequality for complex numbers in the unit circle
Awarded Sep 9, 2021 at 19:32
Does $\mathrm{SO}(3)$ act faithfully on a countable set?
Awarded Sep 7, 2021 at 22:27
How professional mathematicians deal with discouragement?
Awarded Apr 6, 2021 at 0:04
Is each squared finite group trivial?
Awarded Feb 20, 2021 at 19:50
Is a subgroup of a free abelian group free abelian?
Awarded Feb 1, 2021 at 4:27
Homomorphism from $\hat{\mathbb{Z}}$ to $\mathbb{Z}$
Awarded Jan 29, 2021 at 11:32
What precisely Is "Categorification"?
Awarded Jan 27, 2021 at 18:48
Year of birth of Craige Schensted
Awarded Jan 24, 2021 at 22:58
Is it possible to create a polynomial $p(x)$ with this relation between $p(0)$ and $p(c)$?
Awarded Dec 17, 2020 at 5:17
Is Soergel's proof of Kazhdan-Lusztig positivity for Weyl groups independent of other proofs?
Awarded Oct 28, 2020 at 11:25
Can a vector space over an infinite field be a finite union of proper subspaces?
Awarded Oct 15, 2020 at 13:26
What is the algebraic geometry version of the spheres?
Awarded Oct 6, 2020 at 9:32
A Model where Dedekind Reals and Cauchy Reals are Different
Awarded Jul 26, 2020 at 3:48
Atlas-like websites on specific areas of mathematics
Awarded May 28, 2020 at 7:06
Set theory and alternative foundations
Awarded Apr 22, 2020 at 15:51
What would you want to see at the Museum of Mathematics?
Awarded Apr 15, 2020 at 15:55
On an example of an eventually oscillating function
Awarded Mar 28, 2020 at 8:55
Fermat's Last Theorem for integer matrices
Awarded Feb 20, 2020 at 11:40
Why are inverse images more important than images in mathematics?
Awarded Jan 1, 2020 at 16:50
A historical mystery : Poincaré’s silence on Lebesgue integral and measure theory?
Awarded Nov 8, 2019 at 23:30
Proof for the derivative of the determinant of a matrix
Awarded Oct 30, 2019 at 19:45
Examples of non-metrizable spaces
Awarded Sep 30, 2019 at 20:40
A curious relation between angles and lengths of edges of a tetrahedron
Awarded Aug 24, 2019 at 13:00
Most squares in the first half-interval
Awarded Aug 11, 2019 at 19:20
Examples of seemingly elementary problems that are hard to solve?
Awarded Aug 6, 2019 at 14:45
Arriving at the same result with the opposite hypotheses
Awarded Jun 4, 2019 at 15:20
Two (probably) equal real numbers which are not proved to be equal?
Awarded May 12, 2019 at 20:05
Can we prove set theory is consistent?
Awarded May 6, 2019 at 16:35
Finite groups with the same character table
Awarded May 3, 2019 at 13:45
How do you decide whether a question in abstract algebra is worth studying?
Awarded Apr 30, 2019 at 12:30
Is the linear span of special orthogonal matrices equal to the whole space of $N\times N$ matrices?
Awarded Dec 30, 2018 at 20:20
When is a blow-up non-singular?
Awarded Nov 13, 2018 at 15:30
Motivated account of the prime number theorem and related topics
Awarded Nov 6, 2018 at 15:05
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