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close/reopen wars on Mathoverflow
I am profoundly opposed to the "cargo cult" question. The internet is full of places where one can indulge in the pleasures of righteous indignation by mocking the failings of others. I absolutely ...
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[RE-OPENED and later CLOSED again]
The question How the idea of adjoint matrix has been designed? isn't great, but isn't awful, and these two answers have been posted (and upvoted) on G+ rather than ...
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Repeated re-open/close votes (Tate conjecture)
As of this writing, the question concludes with the following paragraph:
I'd like to conclude by respectfully reiterating that, on one hand, the author seems to be reliable, and on the other, even in ...
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close/reopen wars on Mathoverflow
At various times in the past 9 years or so, we have tried several different social conventions to resolve the dissatisfaction that arises with the existing opening and closing rules. This may not be ...
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close/reopen wars on Mathoverflow
One can always flag a question for moderator attention, use the flag to point out to the moderators that an open/close war is in progress, and ask for moderator intervention. In my (limited) ...
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[REOPENED]
The question Has Perelman's proof been accepted or are there still unresolved issues? has been closed as of this writing. At first glance, this question seems to be of the genre, "Is ...
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close/reopen wars on Mathoverflow
For the reasons that others have described, I think that the existence of this question is damaging to MO. There have already been nasty speculations in the comments threads about the characters of ...
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[REOPENED]
The OP of this question Connected sum is well-defined for surfaces, proof? requests reconsideration to reopen.
It was closed as a duplicate, but OP says that what is asked for was not ...
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[REOPENED]
I'd like to suggest reopening Covering systems. As I wrote in a comment,
Why is this closed? Covering systems are a recognized area of research in Number Theory. It's known that in an ...
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[RE-OPENED]
I think that the question How does a mathematician choose on which problem to work? was too broad in its original formulation (beginning: "How does mathematical research work?") and so I ...
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[REOPENED]
Parameterizing rotations of a cube
was asked and answered, but I don't see a reason for closing it.
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[UNDELETED]
This is an undelete request for an answer on meta: namely, quid's answer to my question Some proposals for modifications of the process of closing/reopening questions . The answer was ...
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The question
A question on $p$-approximation property from 2014 has been automatically deleted owing to lack of upvotes. While I can't immediately tell if it is a good question, it seems a perfectly ...
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[REOPENED]
The question Center of a monoid ring asks two questions, one of which can be found in standard texts and the other which is essentially an open question but which appears to be a harmless ...
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[REOPENED]
This question was heavily downvoted and closed: When a compact topological manifold with boundary is a ball? Color me ignorant, perhaps, but I wondered if it were as trivial as the ...
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[REOPENED]
The question Lexicographic order on increasing $k$-tuples by a first-time poster was closed as "unclear what you're asking". I have rewritten it so that (I think) it is now clear. It is ...
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[UNDELETED] [REOPENED] [CLOSED]
I would suggest to undelete/reopen https://mathoverflow.net/q/328312, as a courtesy and sign of respect, and then hopefully one of our experts can answer it.
I know, ...
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[REOPENED]
The question Identify one group of linear transformations was closed as "unclear what you're asking". Afterwards it has been edited and clarified. I don't see what is still "unclear" in ...
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Status: [REOPENED] Thank you!
Request to reopen How to obtain the rational solution of a linear system efficiently?.
In light of recent discussions about being more welcoming to good faith questions ...
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https://mathoverflow.net/questions/379145/geometric-combinatorial-problem-in-the-euclidean-space
This question was deleted by nobody less than @ToddTrimble just 10 days ago after having 9 upvotes and ...
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[Undeleted; Reopened]
If normal with respect to prime base then normal for all bases was closed as not being research math. I nominated it for reopening, after leaving a comment establishing its ...
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I propose that this question should be undeleted:
Reduced ring with all non-prime ideals finitely generated
It was deleted by the OP despite having a substantial answer by Keith Kearnes. ...
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[REOPENED]
Why did Bourbaki ignore the theory of categories? only survived 25 hours in 2013, collecting 5 answers; it has been closed ever since. The reason given (“not constructive”, “will likely ...
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I propose to undelete my question:
Something like mathoverflow in other sciences
It was asked in the early days of MO and has some useful links and information. I Have no idea why some ...
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A chess question of W.T. Tutte has been closed for at least 5 years. The only argument given for its closure at the time was that a moderator saw it as a question of chess strategy. I think the first ...
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The question
Does there exist some $C$ independent of $n$ and $f$ such that $ \|f''\|_p \geq Cn^2 \| f \|_p$, where $1 \leq p\leq \infty$?
seemed decent enough and had a good ...
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Unreasonable application of mathematics to the other areas
I may be biased, but the deletion of this question, together with both its answers [and Todd's very pertinent correction], ...
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[REOPENED]
Boundary conditions for Klein-Gordon equation
The author has responded to comments and edited the question into a form that is much clearer, and in fact bringing it into the realm of ...
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[UNDELETED] - but at the moment still closed – but now redeleted.
The question
https://mathoverflow.net/questions/277564/computer-aided-investigation-of-zeta-anyone-has-input
is about a certain ...
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[REOPENED]
This cw question (on the spelling of Chebyshev and Cholesky) has good answers and I think it deserves to be reopened. (The sole Chebyshev case was worth a specific discussion, and for this ...
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