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Why do chaotic systems need dense periodic orbits?

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Why is the associative property so special to mathematicians?

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How do mathematicians deal with some predictability in otherwise-chaotic systems

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What can't be studied with Category Theory

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Why are constraints distinct from cost functions in nonlinear programming?

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Is there a name for a matrix formed by multiplying a column and a row?

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Is an axiom a proof?

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What does it mean for a category to have a semi-automorphism?

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Can a class contain other (proper) classes?

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Why are transformations always on the left side of the object?

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Are there classes which cannot be specified by language?

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A class that contains itself as an element

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What can we do with a basis that we can't do without it?

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Is there a relationship between loop(topology) and loop(abstract algebra)

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Do the components of a natural transformation need to be part of the category?

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Perturbations on lie algebras in this paper -- are they always zero?

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Can $[a_i, b_j]$ be nonzero in a coproduct of Lie Algebras A and B?

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Can a functor be a left and right adjoint functor with the same categories?

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Has the associative property been generalized to k-ary functions?

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Symmetries of a non-associative mapping

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Term for a value and derivatives at a given point

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Does the product rule for derivatives always work?

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Is there a generalized definition of symmetry which results in a symmetry quasigroup?

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Are there aspects of non-associative algebras which cannot be captured using Category Theory?

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Sortest well-established "for each" equivialent in a proper class

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Optimizing $f: {\Bbb R}^n\to {\Bbb R}^n$ without first reducing it to an ${\Bbb R}^n\to {\Bbb R}$ problem

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Is similarity defined for proper classes?