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Is there a high-concept explanation for why "simplicial" leads to "homotopy-theoretic"?
Awarded Jun 18 at 9:46
Conway's lesser-known results
Awarded Jun 12 at 18:04
Elementary + short + useful
Awarded May 7 at 15:34
How Much Work Does it Take to be a Successful Mathematician? [closed]
Awarded Apr 10 at 8:45
How do you not forget old math?
Awarded Apr 9 at 17:42
Why do polynomials with coefficients $0,1$ like to have only factors with $0,1$ coefficients?
Awarded Mar 26 at 15:20
Time-saving (technology) tricks for writing papers
Awarded Feb 11 at 19:50
Extremely messy proofs
Awarded Jan 6 at 13:27
Do we still need model categories?
Awarded Aug 27, 2023 at 7:41
Top specialized journals
Awarded Apr 27, 2023 at 4:19
Is there an underlying explanation for the magical powers of the Schwarzian derivative?
Awarded Apr 4, 2023 at 21:25
Open problems with monetary rewards
Awarded Jan 12, 2023 at 17:17
When can a connection Induce a Riemannian metric for which it is the Levi-Civita connection?
Awarded Nov 30, 2022 at 9:05
Most intricate and most beautiful structures in mathematics
Awarded Nov 21, 2022 at 19:07
How do you decide whether a question in abstract algebra is worth studying?
Awarded Oct 24, 2022 at 19:22
Demystifying complex numbers
Awarded Sep 21, 2022 at 19:07
Spectral sequences: opening the black box slowly with an example
Awarded Aug 11, 2022 at 6:33
Why doesn't mathematics collapse even though humans quite often make mistakes in their proofs?
Awarded Jun 26, 2022 at 11:50
17 camels trick
Awarded Jun 24, 2022 at 16:47
Probabilistic proofs of analytic facts
Awarded Mar 30, 2022 at 7:57
Two commuting mappings in the disk
Awarded Feb 14, 2022 at 3:17
What are the benefits of writing vector inner products as $\langle u, v\rangle$ as opposed to $u^T v$?
Awarded Feb 4, 2022 at 21:56
equivalence of Grothendieck-style versus Cech-style sheaf cohomology
Awarded Jan 31, 2022 at 21:10
Have any long-suspected irrational numbers turned out to be rational?
Awarded Dec 26, 2021 at 13:03
books well-motivated with explicit examples
Awarded Dec 2, 2021 at 7:12
Why should one still teach Riemann integration?
Awarded Nov 10, 2021 at 0:50
Are there examples of non-orientable manifolds in nature?
Awarded Oct 9, 2021 at 14:27
Where does a math person go to learn statistical mechanics?
Awarded Aug 26, 2021 at 9:40
Estimating the size of solutions of a diophantine equation
Awarded Aug 1, 2021 at 8:41
Is the analysis as taught in universities in fact the analysis of definable numbers?
Awarded Jul 26, 2021 at 19:40
Short exact sequences every mathematician should know
Awarded Jul 16, 2021 at 10:25
What makes four dimensions special?
Awarded Jun 30, 2021 at 16:27
"Understanding" $\mathrm{Gal}(\bar{\mathbb{Q}}/\mathbb{Q})$
Awarded Jun 27, 2021 at 2:47
Relating category theory to programming language theory
Awarded May 26, 2021 at 11:46
Nontrivial theorems with trivial proofs
Awarded May 20, 2021 at 12:04
Good differential equations text for undergraduates who want to become pure mathematicians
Awarded May 19, 2021 at 13:41
Most 'unintuitive' application of the Axiom of Choice?
Awarded May 16, 2021 at 1:07
Intuition for Group Cohomology
Awarded Apr 30, 2021 at 11:25
What are the big problems in probability theory?
Awarded Apr 26, 2021 at 9:52
New grand projects in contemporary math
Awarded Apr 23, 2021 at 15:12
Derived algebraic geometry: how to reach research level math?
Awarded Apr 3, 2021 at 15:16
Is there a sheaf theoretical characterization of a differentiable manifold?
Awarded Mar 12, 2021 at 5:55
Has philosophy ever clarified mathematics?
Awarded Feb 26, 2021 at 21:33
Reading list for basic differential geometry?
Awarded Feb 22, 2021 at 14:33
The concept of duality
Awarded Feb 19, 2021 at 13:20
Is $\mathbb R^3$ the square of some topological space?
Awarded Feb 7, 2021 at 11:18
Algebraic topology beyond the basics: any texts bridging the gap?
Awarded Feb 6, 2021 at 13:16
Roadmap for studying arithmetic geometry
Awarded Feb 4, 2021 at 2:49
The "Dzhanibekov effect" - an exercise in mechanics or fiction? Explain mathematically a video from a space station
Awarded Jan 20, 2021 at 7:26
Great graduate courses that went online recently
Awarded Jan 14, 2021 at 0:53
Most striking applications of category theory?
Awarded Jan 1, 2021 at 22:12
Books that teach other subjects, written for a mathematician
Awarded Dec 24, 2020 at 5:11
Video lectures for algebraic geometry
Awarded Dec 21, 2020 at 10:11
Which mathematicians have influenced you the most? [closed]
Awarded Nov 24, 2020 at 8:19
What is sheaf cohomology intuitively?
Awarded Nov 7, 2020 at 22:27
A learning roadmap for Representation Theory
Awarded Nov 6, 2020 at 5:20
The most outrageous (or ridiculous) conjectures in mathematics
Awarded Oct 31, 2020 at 16:04
Counterexamples in algebraic topology?
Awarded Sep 30, 2020 at 4:27
Where are mathematics jobs advertised if not on mathjobs (e.g. in Europe and elsewhere)?
Awarded Aug 29, 2020 at 20:41
A reading list for topological quantum field theory?
Awarded Jul 16, 2020 at 15:25
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