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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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Why was my question deleted?
Cross-posting is generally frowned upon, the post was flagged as a cross-post, and with no answer it is my general approach to simply delete the cross-post.
However, in this case the post had gone ...
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Reviving questions from the PROMYS application?
This is a genuinely tricky question. I incline toward agreeing with the policy that while we can try to keep problems off the site while applications are open, we can't be expected to play whack-a-...
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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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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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Interesting question deleted by author — how to reach out to author to ask to undelete?
Thanks to @Emil Jeřábek for finding the author of the question, whom I have now e-mailed. (ETA: it's back now!)
Thanks also to @Martin Sleziak for his answer in comments to the meta-question of "...
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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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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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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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I'd like to nominate this question. It originally got closed due to a typo, which has been fixed. It's certainly not "unclear what you are asking" any more (the original reason for closing)...
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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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Parameterizing rotations of a cube
was asked and answered, but I don't see a reason for closing it.
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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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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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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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"Find a TSP tour passing through at least one node in each set of nodes" was initially unclear, but the author
has now clarified it into a real question (and I corrected the English):
Is ...
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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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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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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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Undelete request, Question 290941
The question has now been undeleted (revisions/timeline).
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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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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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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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I asked in a separate thread about the closing of the question
a question on 0-1 valued stochastic process, located at a question on 0-1 valued stochastic process, and it was suggested ...
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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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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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