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Which mathematicians have influenced you the most?
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Why is Euler's Gamma function the “best” extension of the factorial function to the reals?
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An example of an easy to understand undecidable problem
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In what sense are math axioms true?
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Given enough time, what are the chances I can come out ahead in a coin toss contest?
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Conjectures that have been disproved with extremely large counterexamples?
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What is the purpose of Stirling's approximation to a factorial?
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Pseudo Proofs that are intuitively reasonable
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In a family with two children, what are the chances, if one of the children is a girl, that both children are girls?
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Will this procedure generate random points uniformly distributed within a given circle? Proof?
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Pseudo Proofs that are intuitively reasonable
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What is the most efficient way to determine if a matrix is invertible?
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Do complex numbers really exist?
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Deal or no deal: does one switch (to avoid a goat)?/ Should deal or no deal be 10 minutes shorter?
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Is '10' a magical number or I am missing something?
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What is linear programming?
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Is there a closed-form equation for $n!$? If not, why not?
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How many states in the game of hex?
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Your favourite maths puzzles
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What are NP-complete problems and why are they so important?
5
Best Maths books for non-mathematicians
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Why does $1/x$ diverge?
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Looking for functions $f$ with $\int_{-\infty}^{\infty}f(x)\,dx = 1$.
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What are some applications of Mathematics to the medical field?
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Looking for a particular generalization of the concept of a mathematical graph
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Intuition on the sum of first (n-1) numbers is equal to the number of ways of picking 2 items out of n.
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Do We Need the Digits of $\pi$?
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Don't understand why this binomial expansion is not valid for x > 1
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How to prove Euler's formula: $e^{it}=\cos t +i\sin t$?
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Your favourite maths puzzles
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