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What motivated Cantor to invent set theory?
Oct 29, 2014
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Did Grothendieck really say that he felt "clumsy, even oafish, wandering painfully up an arduous track"?
Aug 26, 2016
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Why were 18th century mathematicians interested in extending the factorial to non-integers?
Mar 24, 2015
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What was the connection between David Hilbert and Stefan Banach?
Oct 29, 2014
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In what form does the field of metamathematics exist today?
Oct 31, 2014
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Why is Dirichlet's L-function called "L-function"?
Jul 24, 2017
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When was the modern field theory approach to Galois theory developed?
Nov 9, 2014
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Where had Alexander Grothendieck been all this time?
Nov 27, 2014
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How did prisoners of war discover scientific breakthroughs while interned?
Nov 13, 2014
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Was the term "manifold" (or its German equivalent) chosen with the verb "to fold" in mind?
Sep 4, 2015
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Why does an argument similiar to 0.999...=1 show 999...=-1?
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Is arrow notation for vectors "not mathematically mature"?
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In a math paper, is this considered redundant?
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