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Thomas Andrews
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My answers recently can be classified as "overkill." I go in depth.

I'm a glass half full and half empty kind of guy. Because I understand fractions.

"Absent-minded" is what they call you when you are a very smart idiot.

”While the other sciences search for the rules that God has chosen for this Universe, we mathematicians search for the rules that even God has to obey.” - Serre

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Why do both sine and cosine exist?
Aug 31, 2015
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Produce an explicit bijection between rationals and naturals
Dec 14, 2014
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Why is an average of an average usually incorrect?
Jan 2, 2012
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Why the real and imaginary parts of a complex analytic function are not independent?
Oct 29, 2019
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Best Fake Proofs? (A M.SE April Fools Day collection)
Apr 1, 2013
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Why is there no "remainder" in multiplication
Sep 28, 2013
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$-1$ as the only negative prime.
Feb 7, 2016
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How did Euler prove the Mersenne number $2^{31}-1$ is a prime so early in history?
Mar 22, 2013
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Find an integer such that when squared, the first 4 digits are '6666'.
Oct 23, 2015
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What is the limit of $n \sin (2 \pi \cdot e \cdot n!)$ as $n$ goes to infinity?
Oct 26, 2011
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Is the M.SE blog dead?
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Determining the OP's background when answering questions
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$\mathbb Q$ looking odd in my browser
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Right amount of info/thoughts in a question to draw people, showing also original work
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Is there any way to permanently lock an answer?
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Why is Class.getAnnotation() requiring me to do a cast?
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Chrome printing bug - wrongly printing table headers at top of page
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Inner classes with method names and different signatures than the outer class
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Rails: Making ''show' view and 'edit' view match
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Term for a person with absolutely zero knowledge of a topic

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