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What are some examples of colorful language in serious mathematics papers?
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Set theories without "junk" theorems?
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Why do we not have to prove definitions?
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Mathematical "urban legends"
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Is it "vita" or "vitae"? Why?
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Why are many obviously pointless papers published, or worse studied?
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not both $2^n-1,2^n+1$ can be prime.
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Why are modular lattices important?
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Division by $0$ and its restrictions
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Categories First Or Categories Last In Basic Algebra?
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Does every real function have this weak continuity property?
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Why are review articles cited more frequently than original research articles?
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Why don't authors include in their publications the duration of the research?
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Kuratowski's definition of ordered pairs
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What is Realistic Mathematics?
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Doesn't the unprovability of the continuum hypothesis prove the continuum hypothesis?
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What is limit superior and limit inferior?
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What to do when I can prove a conjecture of a paper I'm peer reviewing
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I have egregiously sloppy (possibly falsified) data that I need to correct. How should I go about this?
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How to politely reject a request for a letter of recommendation for a professor
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Set theories without "junk" theorems?
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Can proof by contradiction 'fail'?
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What are disasters with Axiom of Determinacy?
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Is Euclid dead?
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Why can't proofs have infinitely many steps?
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Why isn't an infinite direct product of copies of $\Bbb Z$ a free module?
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Citing different papers which use different notation for the same concept,
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Should I mention my university name when publishing a paper if I'm tenured teacher but not researcher?
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What can be proven in Peano arithmetic but not Heyting arithmetic?
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If there are $74$ heads and $196$ legs, how many horses and humans are there?
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