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The question you're asking is designed to solicit opinions or best-practices on a particular topic, with the goal of reaching community consensus.

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When asking a question on MO it seems there's far too little information on what MO is about

The page on-topic unfortunately contains a large section detailing what is not on-topic, and one cannot link directly to this section, as I wanted to do recently. Would it be possible to reinstate the …
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If it doesn't interest you, don't read it!

Might I point out that "Mathematical maturity" is not a mathematical object, subject to rigorous definition, so it probably shouldn't be argued about by comparing to actual mathematical objects that m …
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News of potential interest to the MO community

The recipients of the 2022 Fields medals were announced (in this order) at ICM 2022: Hugo Duminil-Copin June Huh James Maynard Maryna Viazovska The Ladyzhenskaya medal was awarded to Svetlana Jitomi …
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News of potential interest to the MO community

Here's a piece of good news for once: Claire Voisin has won the 2024 Crafoord Prize for Mathematics! Here's a video on it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aE5-WGyS6h8 (Nota Bene: Prof Voisin is the fi …
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Is this the appropriate to post a request for arxiv reference query, or is there another sit...

Claiming $e+\pi$ is irrational is a huge piece of news if true. I can only point to the advice in this answer https://academia.stackexchange.com/a/18570/8881 and the others there, in order than you ar …
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News of potential interest to the MO community

Sadly we just lost another Fields medallist, Vladimir Voevodsky died suddenly.
27 votes

News of potential interest to the MO community

Atiyah passed away on Friday (11th Jan), confirmed by Oxford Maths dept, the Royal Society and an obit in the NYT.
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Ronnie Brown, a long-time MathOverflow user, passed away on the 6th December 2024.
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Student trying to cheat in an exam

This deleted question (10k+ users only) is a student who just copied exam questions and wanted help, and admitted it in the comments to me before deleting the question. I would like this question to b …
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Should OEIS links be updated?

status-completed For reference, here are the pages that Google knows use the old domain. If people have strong feelings, they can fix those they want to and remove them from this list. For com …
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Closing as duplicate

One, perhaps silly, approach would be to put an "answer" on the original question (thereby bumping it on the front page) stating that this question has been re-asked (and give a link). Then the new on …
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Mugs, Stickers And Shirts - Now With 100% More MathOverflow!

I'm adding this as an answer, rather than a comment, to bump the question. I haven't received my swag yet, despite it being about 14 months later. I notice Joel Reyes Noche and Aaron Meyerowitz men …
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'Tag-removed' tags where they possibly shouldn't be

See Why is differentiating mechanics and integration art? Which functions of one variable are derivatives ? both of which are tagged [tag-removed]. Also, both of these seem to have had these tags …
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Moderation strike update 3

There was a lull in the negotiations, for various innocuous reasons that are not relevant. But on 20th July 2023, the following update was posted to Discord by negotiator Mithical, and reposted at the …
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How long will it take for all my badges to turn up?

By current count I have 3 silver and 4 bronze badges. This is a lot less than I had before. Do they just turn up in dribs and drabs over 24-48 hours, or what? Not that I'm driven by badges, but I'm c …
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