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What are some noteworthy "mic-drop" moments in math?

answered Mar 11, 2019 at 1:08

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Proofs that require fundamentally new ways of thinking

answered Dec 9, 2010 at 17:31

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Widely accepted mathematical results that were later shown to be wrong?

answered Feb 3, 2019 at 4:55

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What is the status of Arthur's book?

answered Feb 15, 2016 at 1:24

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Every mathematician has only a few tricks

answered Jun 15, 2020 at 16:10

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Can one embed two division rings in a common one?

answered Sep 24, 2017 at 23:59

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What motivations for automorphic forms?

answered Jan 16, 2018 at 5:10

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How to write a good MathSciNet review?

answered Jan 28, 2021 at 17:51

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Using a known result without a specific reference

answered Nov 29, 2017 at 0:16

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Consequences of the Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer Conjecture?

answered Mar 31, 2017 at 3:27

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Why is the simple trace formula a weaker tool than the Arthur trace formula?

answered May 20, 2011 at 23:57

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What are the pillars of Langlands?

answered Mar 19, 2011 at 6:22

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Historical (personal) examples of teaching-based research

answered Apr 2, 2015 at 3:22

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What motivations for automorphic forms?

answered Jan 16, 2018 at 16:08

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Which even lattices have a theta series with this property?

answered Jun 3, 2019 at 8:34

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Modeling in pure math

answered Dec 16, 2019 at 5:52

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Pros and cons of specializing in an esoteric research area

answered Mar 9, 2020 at 2:51

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Is the nonvanishing of Langlands L-functions at $s=1$ conjectured?

answered Oct 23, 2022 at 6:54

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Essays and thoughts on mathematics

answered Oct 5, 2015 at 22:25

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Mathematical software wish list

answered Aug 8, 2015 at 4:23

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Counterexamples in algebra?

answered Aug 11, 2010 at 13:13

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What programming language should a professional mathematician know?

answered Aug 21, 2018 at 14:55

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Local component of cuspidal automorphic representation

answered Jan 28, 2023 at 19:58

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Impact of the squarefreeness of the level for modular forms

answered Oct 7, 2024 at 12:43

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Are all these representations supercuspidal

answered Mar 4, 2018 at 7:10

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Reaching Hecke eigenvalues from a trace formula

answered Dec 9, 2016 at 16:56

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The space of Whittaker functionals is at most one-dimensional

answered Apr 3, 2017 at 1:09

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$GSp(4)$ vs $PSp(4)$

answered Aug 9, 2017 at 22:50

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Basis problem of modular forms arising from quaternion algebra

answered Feb 7, 2018 at 9:44

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How to get the dimension of Atkin-Lehner eigenspace or do you have any data already obtained?

answered Sep 20, 2022 at 12:46

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What are some noteworthy "mic-drop" moments in math?

Proofs that require fundamentally new ways of thinking

Widely accepted mathematical results that were later shown to be wrong?

What is the status of Arthur's book?

Every mathematician has only a few tricks

Can one embed two division rings in a common one?

What motivations for automorphic forms?

How to write a good MathSciNet review?

Using a known result without a specific reference

Consequences of the Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer Conjecture?

Why is the simple trace formula a weaker tool than the Arthur trace formula?

What are the pillars of Langlands?

Historical (personal) examples of teaching-based research

What motivations for automorphic forms?

Which even lattices have a theta series with this property?

Modeling in pure math

Pros and cons of specializing in an esoteric research area

Is the nonvanishing of Langlands L-functions at $s=1$ conjectured?

Essays and thoughts on mathematics

Mathematical software wish list

Counterexamples in algebra?

What programming language should a professional mathematician know?

Local component of cuspidal automorphic representation

Impact of the squarefreeness of the level for modular forms

Are all these representations supercuspidal

Reaching Hecke eigenvalues from a trace formula

The space of Whittaker functionals is at most one-dimensional

$GSp(4)$ vs $PSp(4)$

Basis problem of modular forms arising from quaternion algebra

How to get the dimension of Atkin-Lehner eigenspace or do you have any data already obtained?