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Timothy Chow
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Why do we care about $L^p$ spaces besides $p = 1$, $p = 2$, and $p = \infty$?
Jun 14, 2010
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Do you read the masters?
Jun 15, 2010
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Suggestions for special lectures at next ICM
Aug 6, 2020
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Not especially famous, long-open problems which anyone can understand
Jun 22, 2012
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Papers that debunk common myths in the history of mathematics
May 31, 2010
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Nonequivalent definitions in Mathematics
Nov 23, 2017
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Not especially famous, long-open problems which anyone can understand
Jun 21, 2012
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What would you want to see at the Museum of Mathematics? [closed]
Dec 25, 2010
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Why do we make such big deal about the 'unsolvability' of the quintic?
Jan 9, 2022
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Conway's lesser-known results
Apr 12, 2020

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What would be the disadvantages of a (hypothetical) MOexit?
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What is being done to make MathOverflow more welcoming to women?

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What would it mean to disprove Church-Turing thesis?
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Which interesting theorems in TCS rely on the Axiom of Choice? (Or alternatively, the Axiom of Determinacy?)
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Is there a sensible notion of an approximation algorithm for an undecidable problem?
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Ways for a mathematician to stay informed of current research in complexity theory
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Should experts in TCS charge money to read proofs that P != NP?