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190 votes

Which math paper maximizes the ratio (importance)/(length)?

soft-question big-list math-communication asked Dec 1, 2009 at 1:12
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60 votes

Notable mathematics during World War II

ho.history-overview big-list asked Aug 19, 2010 at 16:45
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49 votes

The Hardy Z-function and failure of the Riemann hypothesis

nt.number-theory real-analysis analytic-number-theory zeta-functions riemann-hypothesis asked Dec 23, 2010 at 16:23
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30 votes

Random knot on six vertices

pr.probability knot-theory stick-knots asked Feb 9, 2011 at 19:51
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27 votes

Is the Leopoldt conjecture almost always true?

nt.number-theory galois-theory asked May 28, 2011 at 2:09
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27 votes

How often are irrational numbers well-approximated by rationals?

inequalities diophantine-approximation nt.number-theory algebraic-number-theory asked Apr 26, 2010 at 1:45
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27 votes

Potential modularity and the Ramanujan conjecture

nt.number-theory algebraic-number-theory modular-forms ramanujan asked May 10, 2010 at 15:32
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22 votes

Which elliptic curves over totally real fields are modular these days?

ag.algebraic-geometry nt.number-theory elliptic-curves modular-forms asked Sep 16, 2010 at 4:39
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22 votes

The difficulties in proving modularity lifting theorems over non-totally real fields

nt.number-theory galois-representations modular-forms asked Jan 20, 2010 at 15:17
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18 votes

Divisibility properties of Hurwitz numbers

nt.number-theory arithmetic-geometry asked Sep 26, 2011 at 17:25
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Is the Green-Tao theorem true for primes within a given arithmetic progression?
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Major mathematical advances past age fifty
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What are some examples of colorful language in serious mathematics papers?
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If the Riemann Hypothesis fails, must it fail infinitely often?
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What is the difference between a zeta function and an L-function?
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Overview of the interplay of Harmonic Analysis and Number Theory
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Where stands functoriality in 2009?
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Modular forms with prime Fourier coefficients zero
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Why are modular forms interesting?
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Books you would like to read (if somebody would just write them…)
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Holomorphic function with a.e. vanishing radial boundary limits
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Ramanujan's eccentric Integral formula
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Equivalent forms of the Grand Riemann Hypothesis
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Primes of the form a^2+1
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Factors of p-1 when p is prime.
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Sato-Tate measure for GL(3) Automorphic forms
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Is the given expression, monotonically increasing or decreasing with increasing x?
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Wonderful applications of the Vandermonde determinant
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An elementary number theoretic infinite series
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Things that should be positive integers...really?
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PNT for general zeta functions, Applications of.
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Averages of Euler-phi function and similar
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What information do the roots of the generating function of the nontrivial zeroes of the Riemann zeta function encode.
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Are coefficients of Maass forms of eigenvalue 1/4 known to be algebraic?
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Langlands in dimension 2: the Yoshida conjecture
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In what way do the Weil Conjectures pertain to Langlands?
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Upper bounds for ranks of modular jacobians
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Why torsion is important in (co)homology ?
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Precise relation between prime number theorem and zero-free region
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