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Topology
- A ball whose outside is not one
- A count that can say zero
- A covering is a permutation
- A curve that has area
- A disc sewn to a Möbius band
- A loop that cannot be pulled tight
- A map that offers a choice
- A polynomial behind the colourings
- Angles survive and areas do not
- As many cuts as colours
- Colours that count more than three
- Covering a surface multiplies its count
- Cutting a space to find its group
- Every corner pays for itself
- Every cover is a subgroup
- Every loop is a circle in disguise
- Every surface is a sphere with handles
- Every way to pair a polygon's edges
- Every word driven to a normal form
- Folding a graph until it decides
- Linked, and no two of them are
- Nothing on a sphere can be combed flat
- One chart is never enough
- One line that halves them both
- The surface with one side, and what happens when it is cut
- Opposite labels that have to meet
- Orientation is a sign
- Seven hundred and twenty degrees of gap
- Something always stays put
- A sphere is a plane plus one point
- The bottle that needs a fourth dimension
- The circles that fill a three-sphere
- The colours a circle forces
- The group a space has at a point
- The same loop, unrolled
- The solid where the answer is not two
- The sphere that complex numbers live on
- The subgroup that is freer than the group
- The surface a knot bounds
- The surface a random gluing makes
- The symmetries a cover has of its own
- The third number a surface needs
- Three moves, and what they cannot undo
- Twelve pentagons, whatever the hexagons
- Two loops and one number
- Two opposite points that agree twice
- Two pieces, in every dimension
- Two sheets over a one-sided surface
- Two trees, and every edge in exactly one of them
- What a branch point subtracts
- Where the fixed point escapes
- Which side of the line is inside
- Why the second group commutes
- Zero can mean two different things
- Zero in four dimensions
- The loops on a torus that never cross themselves
- A twist that carries one loop to another
Dynamics
- A bounce is a fold of the table
- A carpet with two dimensions
- A closer start buys only time
- A constant that does not care which map
- A difference too small to draw
- A dimension for every rate of crowding
- A dimension from the stretching rates
- A dimension that is not a whole number
- A matrix that counts the returns
- A point that pulls, and a point that pushes
- A road where nobody overtakes
- A room that cannot be lit
- A rotation in different coordinates
- A solvable chaos of every degree
- A table folded into a surface
- A twist that cannot avoid two points
- Almost every number comes down
- Almost every orbit is fair
- An area that never finishes
- Chaos on a set nobody lands on
- Covering rather than avoiding
- Eight rules and a triangle
- Every pattern happens exactly once
- How a lock comes apart
- How fast the staircase arrives
- How fast two orbits part
- How short a cycle could be
- Infinite on one side and nought on the other
- Neither a surface nor a solid
- No local rule can count the votes
- One c, one picture
- Sensitivity comes free
- Stretch, fold, and what is left
- The dark lines are one point's orbit
- The flow that is really a map
- The folds that measure chaos
- The heuristic that cannot be a proof
- The histogram an orbit leaves
- The obstacle that makes a table chaotic
- The orbit a computer draws
- The orbit that must come back
- The orbit written as a word
- The question nobody can answer
- The road paved with doublings
- The room a jagged graph takes up
- The rule that computes
- The same map in different coordinates
- The shape in every picture of itself
- The staircase that is flat almost everywhere
- The staircase that shows the whole orbit
- The triangle nobody can settle
- The window that opens with a stutter
- Three gaps and no more
- Two lobes and no cycle
- Where Newton's method goes instead
- A double root halves the error instead of squaring it
- A cubic method that is Newton's in disguise
Geometry
- A centre is three weights
- A circle unrolled into a triangle
- Aimed at one focus, turned towards the other
- An angle that does not care where it stands
- Circles that are diamonds and squares
- Curvatures that stay whole
- Eight circles touching three
- Eighteen equilateral triangles
- Equal diagonals in a curved quadrilateral
- The oldest algorithm, drawn as a tiling
- Euclid proves it without moving anything
- Every flat graph is a pile of circles
- Every ray comes back to the other focus
- Every side measured by one diameter
- Every site in the middle of its own cell
- Half a circle against a wall
- The plane, divided by whoever is nearest
- Nearly the most means nearly round
- Nine points on one circle
- Every square is a stack of odd numbers
- One circle touching four
- One cone, four curves
- One dimension up, and the circles disappear
- One number for every chord through a point
- One sign decides which curve
- Pinned between two sequences
- Two squares, four triangles, and no algebra
- Round is not the only way to be the same width
- Seven pieces and an equilateral middle
- Six in four dimensions, and three forever after
- Six points on a conic, and the line they share
- Sums of powers, read off a staircase
- The fewest ordinary lines a polygon allows
- The five solids as three groups
- The four that are allowed to cross themselves
- The least area a width can hold
- The line with only two points on it
- The map that trades circles for lines
- The most area a fence can hold
- The number four points agree on
- The rectangle that eats itself
- The rope that squares a corner
- The same question in space
- The shape described from outside
- The slice that has to match
- The tree inside the triangulation
- The triangle that a globe gets wrong
- Thirteen more when one word is dropped
- Three ordinary lines from a count
- Three triangular numbers, and no fewer
- Three trisectors and a triangle nobody expected
- Two families that cross at right angles
- Two right angles and the diagonal of a box
- When the sites are not the same size
- Why the list of perfect solids stops at five
- The player who meets the first long run
- The remainders that count the roots
Analysis
- A coin in front of every term
- A curve with a corner at every point
- A denominator that reaches past the radius
- A limit can jump at every fraction
- A limit that forgets to be continuous
- A line under every point
- A map that shrinks everything
- A rectangle cut by a curve
- A rectangle grown on two sides
- A series that converges nowhere
- A set that has no size at all
- A staircase with no steps
- A sum read from inside
- A sum whose terms vanish and whose total does not
- A wall between two bodies
- Adding up rectangles until they stop being rectangles
- Almost none of it left, and still uncountably many
- An endless region with a finite area
- An error with an unknown in it
- Area is the undoing of slope
- A sine wave is a circle seen from the side
- Covering a set from outside
- No interval in it, and length to spare
- One point's worth of information
- The same terms, in a different order, adding to whatever is asked
- A square wave built entirely out of round ones
- The angle that is really an area
- The area that names the number
- The centre is a choice
- The constant that counts what does not happen
- The corners go first
- The curve of the average, and the average of the curve
- The curve that is its own slope
- The equation with only one answer
- The exponential of a square
- The flat map that fits closest
- The function seen from its tangents
- The length belongs to the journey
- The points that ruin the fit
- The repair at the boundary
- The series everything else is measured against
- The slope of a single point
- The slope of the mirror image
- The staircase that is not the diagonal
- The subsequence that has to exist
- The sum that fits in one square
- The sum that steps over every whole number
- Three points, however many there are
- Uniform, except on a small set
- When the period grows without bound
- When two circular motions come home
- Where the coefficients come from
- Where the guarantee stops
- Which curves have a length at all
- Which functions can be added up
- The length the derivative never sees
- A length counted by the lines that cross it
Probability
- A collision that finds a factor
- A room where nobody is alone
- A round table with no couple together
- A sum stopped early still says something
- A walk that always comes home, until it does not
- A walk that samples a distribution
- Add the odds from the end
- An average that never settles
- Any unevenness brings the match sooner
- Bayes' theorem is a picture of a square
- A bell curve assembled out of coin flips
- Finding a threshold with two moments
- Fourteen people within a day
- Giving up on the best
- Half of what an oracle takes
- Half the time is the rarest answer
- How far from the average a thing can be
- How fast the bell arrives
- How long until every one turns up
- How long until it forgets
- How many get their own hat
- No single input can move it far
- Nobody gets their own hat
- One coin, counted by runs and by wakings
- Getting pi by dropping needles on the floor
- Points too even to be random
- Sampling where the answer lives
- Sharp, or merely a threshold
- The average settles and the wobble does not
- The bound is the answer to a search
- The cells a permutation must miss
- The chain that runs the same backwards
- The chain that stops
- The door that was not opened
- The error that does not care how many dimensions
- The moment a giant appears
- The moment everything joins up
- The one that hardly ever comes up
- The path folded at its first touch
- The rule that forgets where it came from
- The shape that averaging leaves alone
- The tail is not a bell
- The thresholds that nest
- The time spent and the share held
- The walk that becomes a curve
- The window where the giant is born
- Twenty-three people
- Two barriers and a fair game
- Two children and the sentence about one of them
- Two patterns, one chance, different waits
- Two thresholds, not one
- When the numbers are shown
- When the whole histogram deviates
- When to stop looking
- Where the shares have nowhere to go
- The ground a walk covers
- A walk that may not step where it has been
Logic
- A countable field that passes for the line
- A failed search is a proof
- A formula is a corner of a cube
- A function that adds and is nowhere a line
- A game that decides what can be said
- A language that can name a set
- A lemma, and the proof that never mentions one
- A line with as many points as a square
- A list that cannot contain itself
- A number larger than every number
- A plane through the cube
- A proof with one rule
- A quantifier is a shadow
- A sequence that explodes and still stops
- An infinite tree has an infinite path
- An ordinal as a growth rate
- Countable, and everywhere
- Every derivation is a term
- Every ordinal in base omega
- Every row, or one column
- Four circles cannot do it
- Half the cube and √n neighbours
- How many worlds a formula can need
- Infinitely many guessers, finitely many wrong
- Nearly always, or nearly never
- Necessity that means provable
- Not one step but a continuum
- One connective is enough
- One gadget defeats every refinement
- One step in front of infinitely many
- Reached from below, or not at all
- Refutable in something small
- Six sentences from two quantifiers
- The arithmetic that loses subtraction
- The assumption a proof pays back
- The axiom is the shape of the graph
- The axiom with no property of the arrows
- The boundary at three variables
- The choice nobody can write down
- The distance a sentence can see
- The game the algorithm was playing
- The instance that has to be guessed
- The map that puts neighbours side by side
- The middle that is not excluded
- The row that is not on the list
- The sentence between a premise and its consequence
- The sentence that says it has no proof
- The size that cannot be pinned down
- The tree that closes
- Twenty-four out of two hundred and fifty-six
- Two diagrams the language cannot tell apart
- Two injections make a bijection
- Two literals make an arrow
- Two worlds that both obey the rules
- Worlds built out of sentences
- The conclusion is what survives the erasing
- One thing in each region is enough
Computation
- A cycle for every pair
- A dissection that never comes apart
- A field's worth of squares
- A filter that changes only the spread
- A memory of four bits
- A page that knows where it is
- A plane in a list of numbers
- A plane no field built
- A polynomial through the gaps
- A quintic a sliding mark reaches
- A schedule where every pair meets once
- Distance is a picture
- Equal area is enough, and equal volume is not
- Equal area on a sphere, without a rectangle
- Erasures a code can see
- Every element is a power of one of them
- Every necklace, in order
- Every step is a square root
- Every word once, around a cycle
- Fair bits from an unfair coin
- Finding the error without reading the message
- Finitely many, and nobody says how many
- Four numbers and the rule is yours
- Give or take twice the square root
- More blocks than points
- Nine thousand four hundred and eight
- Nineteen thousand bits of state
- One cell short of a transversal
- One circle, and a straightedge
- Past half the distance
- Randomness that has to be earned
- Seven points, seven lines
- Sixteen of five hundred and seventy-six
- Sixteen spheres that fill a cube
- Slid, but never turned
- Solutions that come in multiples of p
- The angle that will not divide by three
- The best a code can be
- The circle that will not square
- The compass that will not open
- The cube that will not double
- The curve that no three points in line define
- The field with four elements
- The mark that changes what is reachable
- The obstruction that was the only one
- The plane hiding in the squares
- The planes a recurrence cannot leave
- The price of a construction
- The rate a noisy channel allows
- The straightedge buys nothing
- The test that ranks the generators
- The thirty-six officers
- Two instruments with one reach
- What two points can build
- Which polygons can be drawn
- A sum of two sets modulo a prime cannot be small
- No set with a line in every direction is small
Algebra
- A determinant that counts trees
- A loop that cannot miss the middle
- A multiplication that remembers the order
- A plane disguised as an arrow
- A rotation of four-space takes two of them
- A shared root, found without finding it
- A tower whose degrees multiply
- Colourings nobody can tell apart
- Counted across and counted down
- Eight ways to leave a square alone
- Every power sum, from the coefficients alone
- Every third coefficient
- How fast the ball fills
- Completing the square, by completing a square
- A matrix is a picture of what happens to the grid
- Moving a map across a product
- Multiplying is turning
- Necklaces made of symmetries
- On the circle and never home
- One number under every bell
- One point in every big enough shape
- One subtraction clears a direction
- Seven powers in a space of six
- Symmetry forces a right angle
- The blocks a subgroup cuts out
- The crossings that will not come out even
- The cycles and the cuts
- The directions a map leaves alone
- The dot product is a shadow
- The edge that is as big as the ball
- The group drawn as a map
- The group that will not come apart
- The identity that multiplies sums of squares
- The integers a field contains
- The integers among the quaternions
- The lattice that runs the other way
- The nearest point of a flat thing
- The number that says how much room is left
- The only bit that survives
- The only function that behaves like a volume
- The polygon an equation forces
- The polynomial whose roots are the stretches
- The puzzle that is exactly half solvable
- The roots of the slope stay inside
- The same map in a better basis
- The same sum without its minus signs
- The square that cannot be negative
- Twenty-four ways to set a cube down
- Two hundred and forty directions
- What a map does to a circle
- What a map throws away
- What is lost at eight
- What the coefficients already know
- When the label may be a matrix
- Where two roots run into each other
- The sums of roots of unity that add to nothing
- Three ways to pair four roots
Number
- A diagram turned on its side
- A factorisation that hides its primes
- A fraction that never closes
- A method that is allowed to miss
- A tail too small to be a whole number
- A tree that holds every triple
- Almost no number is one
- Always one before the double
- An integral that cannot be a whole number
- An order that proves a prime
- Approached too fast to be algebraic
- Counting one rectangle, twice
- Counting what has no formula
- The primes are what is left over
- Every class, and in equal shares
- Every fifth one divides
- Every fraction, exactly once
- Every partition, hidden in a product
- Every rational in one sequence
- Every triple, on one circle
- Factoring uniquely with no way to divide
- How close a fraction can get
- Infinitely many of one kind
- Necklaces that prove a theorem
- There is no last prime
- Numbers that are their own parts
- One residue whose powers are all of them
- One solution that makes all the others
- One sum, squared two ways
- One way to factor, and no other
- The arcs a line crosses on its way to a number
- The exponent that is smaller than Euler's
- The fraction Lambert built for the tangent
- The fractions that beat every smaller one
- The function that sends fractions to binary
- The pattern in e's continued fraction
- The shape of a number's divisors
- The sieve that cannot finish
- The sieve written as a product
- The size of a number with no formula
- The square that cannot shrink
- The sum of the parts, taken again
- The symbol is the sign of a shuffle
- The terms that cancel almost everything
- The two squares actually produced
- The two supplements, and where the eight comes from
- Two dials at once
- Two matrices that generate the tree
- Two primes where Fermat holds twice
- Two squares, and a lattice
- Which infinitudes are proved
- Which primes a form takes
- Which roots refuse to be fractions
- Why a quarter of numbers overshoot
- Why the expansion has to repeat
- Two families of solutions, and a box that holds both
- Sixty needs two digits and sixty-one needs ten
Applied
- A lie that pays
- A lottery over whole assignments
- A mixture that is a population
- A price for every person and task
- A ring that no pairing can break
- A share of the votes is not a share of the power
- A signal both can see
- A split nobody can walk away from
- Agendas that cannot contradict themselves
- An objection one player makes to another
- Choosing what unfair means
- Deciding the premises or the conclusion
- Envy-free, up to one item
- Five rules and five winners
- Five rules and one dial
- Five weighings and the question is closed
- Four conditions, and no rule that has all of them
- Four ways out, and what each costs
- How many cuts a fair share costs
- No rule escapes the doctrinal paradox
- No stable rule is safe from a lie
- Nobody has a reason to run away
- None of the four conditions is spare
- One cuts and the other chooses
- One table, two lotteries
- Patience instead of a contract
- Seats to parties and places at once
- Sharing a cost that is not the sum of its parts
- The corners are whole assignments
- The court that contradicts itself
- The landscape nobody is looking at
- The lines the optimum lies under
- The majority that goes in a circle
- The nearest consistent verdict
- The objection nobody can make louder
- The order everybody arrives in
- The people every stable answer leaves out
- The product that makes a division fair
- The reading that is almost right
- The road that makes everyone later
- The rule with no favourites
- The seat that vanishes when the house grows
- The side that proposes wins
- The table inside every quota
- The value from both sides
- Three people and a trimmed piece
- Too many orders to list
- Two equilibria and no way to choose
- Two numbers that have to meet
- Two out of three, and never all three
- What a constraint is worth
- When one of the two numbers is missing
- Where the corners stop being whole
- Where the rounding runs out
- Worth more for being seen first
- Cutting a link costs both of its ends the same
- What a missing input is worth
Discrete
- A polynomial that counts
- A remainder read two digits at a time
- A walk that changes one thing at a time
- A walk that splices in its own detours
- Area by counting dots
- Averaging down the triangle
- Counting the colourings
- Counting the paths that go wrong
- Eighteen people, and the seventeen that escape
- Every entry counts the routes to it
- Every place changes back
- Everybody's share of the chains
- Five colours, and a chain that can be followed
- Five spokes squeezed into K5
- Four colours, and a proof nobody can read
- How many ways to sort it
- More things than boxes
- Moves that only ever add edges
- Numbers that wrap
- One bottleneck and nothing else
- One sequence, counting everything
- One tree for every cut
- One word, and four objects
- Pascal's triangle, in two colours
- The primes on a spiral, and a pattern nobody ordered
- Seven bridges, and the invention of throwing things away
- Seven regions on a doughnut
- Six people at a party
- Sixteen polygons with one dot inside
- Sixteen trees on four points
- The bottleneck is the whole story
- The carries decide the divisibility
- The coefficient that is a polynomial
- The colouring nobody has ever seen
- The cube cut into chains
- The densest graph without a square
- The dots a circle catches
- The edge that forces a triangle
- The equation a sequence satisfies
- The few points that cut a flat graph
- The largest family that always meets
- The piece that cannot pair off
- The product that deals the labels
- The run that lands one place along
- The sequence that cannot avoid a staircase
- The solid whose corners are triangulations
- The streets a postman walks twice
- The theorem that has no version in space
- The walk through the middle levels
- The widest layer and the longest chain
- Three colours force a triangle
- Three in a row on the number line
- Two graphs that will not lie flat
- What the search has when it fails
- When several pairs share the roads
- Cars that park, and trees that grow
- A random tree is one part in e leaves