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What are some ways to stay engaged with the mathematical community from outside academia?

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On what basis does a paper get accepted into a top journal?

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Is there an elementary proof that distal maps are invertible?

mg.metric-geometry ds.dynamical-systems topological-dynamics asked May 25, 2021 at 0:25
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Expected length of longest stick in a stick snapping process

pr.probability stochastic-processes asked Sep 13, 2022 at 10:10
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A gerrymandering problem - can you always turn a tie into a landslide victory?

mg.metric-geometry measure-theory geometric-measure-theory asked Nov 6, 2023 at 1:01
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What phenomena are better modelled by SDE instead of ODE?

ca.classical-analysis-and-odes stochastic-processes soft-question stochastic-calculus stochastic-differential-equations asked Dec 18, 2023 at 11:23
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Where does one learn about the weather?

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Does a random Riemann sum of an $L^1$ function converge almost surely?

pr.probability real-analysis asked Jan 9 at 9:51
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How to optimally bet on a biased coin?

pr.probability stochastic-processes oc.optimization-and-control stochastic-filtering asked Feb 19, 2024 at 15:58
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Roadmap to Ergodic Theory

reference-request pr.probability ds.dynamical-systems ergodic-theory learning-roadmap asked Jul 12, 2023 at 20:59
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How would you have answered Richard Feynman's challenge?
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How badly can the Lebesgue differentiation theorem fail?
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Daunting papers/books and how to finally read them
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Non-existence of continuous function with infinite derivative everywhere
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Does every differentiable a.e. function admit a maximally differentiable representative?
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Twisted Riemann sums
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Discontinuous functions without removable discontinuities
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Why do we mainly integrate with respect to martingales?
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Different proof techniques of the Atiyah-Singer index theorem
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Quadratic variation of supremum of brownian motion
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Endpoint of Brownian motion conditional on high maxima
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Lebesgue differentiation theorem at boundary points for Sobolev traces
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The relevance of knowing "just facts"
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Is the derivative of a Lipschitz function continuous a.e.?
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Are continuous functions with large level sets differentiable a.e.?
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What is Young measure?
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On the continuity of map $\Gamma$
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Reference request: showing that solution of an Ito SDE stays bounded with positive probability
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$f\in C(B_1)\cap W^{1,2}(B_1\setminus \{f=0\})$ implies $f\in W^{1,2}(B_1)$?
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Interpretation of second order term in Fokker-Planck equation
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Best textbooks/resources for "advanced" probability theory?
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Proof that superlinearly convergent sequence converges faster than linearly convergent sequence
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Can the set of non-differentiability of a Lipschitz function be of arbitrary Hausdorff dimension?
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Is the $L^\infty$ norm of the derivative the same under the Hausdorff and Lebesgue measure?
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A question related to the convergence of a sequence of random variables
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