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Can you provide me historical examples of pure mathematics becoming "useful"?

asked Jan 17, 2013 at 5:37

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What's the difference between stochastic and random?

asked Feb 28, 2012 at 9:09

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11 answers

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Is Euclid's proof on the infinitude of primes flawed because it yields some composites?

asked Jan 8, 2014 at 23:56

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Can you give me some concrete examples of magmas?

asked May 3, 2014 at 12:03

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Are there surfaces with more than two sides?

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Mathematics textbooks with history and/or motivation?

asked Nov 19, 2013 at 3:36

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Is this way of teaching how to solve equations dangerous somehow?

asked Apr 10, 2013 at 3:13

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Where are the values of the sine function coming from?

asked Feb 17, 2013 at 16:57

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What's umbral calculus about?

asked Sep 6, 2012 at 3:44

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Are there infinite sets of axioms?

asked Mar 11, 2013 at 5:43

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Good book recommendations on trigonometry

asked Feb 22, 2013 at 7:02

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What's the difference between a monoid and a group?

asked May 19, 2012 at 1:04

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What am I losing if I decide to perform all math by computer?

asked Aug 30, 2012 at 19:50

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What are the dangers of visual exposition of mathematics?

asked Sep 17, 2012 at 9:25

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How does intuition fail for higher dimensions?

asked Dec 14, 2012 at 1:18

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What newer mathematics fields helped to solve or solved problems from older fields of mathematics?

asked Aug 4, 2013 at 11:33

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How "messy" can a multivariable function be?

asked Apr 4, 2017 at 23:30

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Why was set theory inadequate as a foundation to the emerging new fields and why category theory isn't?

asked Jan 18, 2013 at 18:25

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Is there a garden of derivatives?

asked Jun 14, 2014 at 9:57

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Why don't we use Presburger's arithmetic instead of Peano's arithmetic?

asked Jan 18, 2015 at 19:03

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8 answers

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Why is it important to have a discrepancy between image and codomain?

asked May 19, 2013 at 15:41

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What are the math challenges websites?

asked Sep 17, 2012 at 10:26

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Why does the logarithm require a special notation?

asked Aug 28, 2012 at 20:55

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Detailed diagram with mathematical fields of study

asked Jul 5, 2012 at 4:39

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Is this visual analogy to Gödel's incompleteness theorem accurate?

asked Jun 10, 2015 at 3:35

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Where's the error in this $2=1$ fake proof? [duplicate]

asked Jun 11, 2013 at 11:09

15 votes

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Textbooks, lecture notes, and articles from arXiv for undergraduate students

asked Jun 23, 2014 at 17:42

14 votes

2 answers

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Before Abel's proof, what did they used for trying to find the general solution for quintics?

asked Oct 7, 2013 at 7:59

14 votes

6 answers

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Why a quadratic equations always equals zero?

asked Aug 25, 2012 at 20:56

14 votes

1 answer

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How long should I insist?

asked Sep 3, 2012 at 15:07

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Can you provide me historical examples of pure mathematics becoming "useful"?

What's the difference between stochastic and random?

Is Euclid's proof on the infinitude of primes flawed because it yields some composites?

Can you give me some concrete examples of magmas?

Are there surfaces with more than two sides?

Mathematics textbooks with history and/or motivation?

Is this way of teaching how to solve equations dangerous somehow?

Where are the values of the sine function coming from?

What's umbral calculus about?

Are there infinite sets of axioms?

Good book recommendations on trigonometry

What's the difference between a monoid and a group?

What am I losing if I decide to perform all math by computer?

What are the dangers of visual exposition of mathematics?

How does intuition fail for higher dimensions?

What newer mathematics fields helped to solve or solved problems from older fields of mathematics?

How "messy" can a multivariable function be?

Why was set theory inadequate as a foundation to the emerging new fields and why category theory isn't?

Is there a garden of derivatives?

Why don't we use Presburger's arithmetic instead of Peano's arithmetic?

Why is it important to have a discrepancy between image and codomain?

What are the math challenges websites?

Why does the logarithm require a special notation?

Detailed diagram with mathematical fields of study

Is this visual analogy to Gödel's incompleteness theorem accurate?

Where's the error in this $2=1$ fake proof? [duplicate]

Textbooks, lecture notes, and articles from arXiv for undergraduate students

Before Abel's proof, what did they used for trying to find the general solution for quintics?

Why a quadratic equations always equals zero?

How long should I insist?