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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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Story of a student who solves an open problem
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Has a stereotypical "mad scientist" ever made a significant discovery?
Mar 11 '19
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Examples of when the professional scientists or mathematicians were wrong, but the nonprofessionals were right
Jan 18 '19
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What are examples of serendipity in the history of the sciences and math?
Jul 18
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Why did it take an army of physicists, working on a huge complex, so long to produce a working nuclear device, while it seems so easy in theory?
Dec 25 '17
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Which mathematicians died very young or in a tragic way?
Sep 16 '17
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What are some of the earliest mentions of scientific "cranks"?
Jan 31 '19
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History of Galois Theory after Galois
Oct 3 '17
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Why didn't John von Neumann win the Turing Award, Fields Medal or Nobel Prize?
Feb 11 '19
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Examples of papers co-authored by parent/child, or siblings
Feb 22 '19
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Why was "An Update to our Community and an Apology" deleted?
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Why not include as a requirement that all functions must be continuous to be differentiable?
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Unexpected examples of natural logarithm
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Can a binary operation have an identity element when it is not associative and commutative?
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How can a "proper" function have a vertical slope?

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