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noneThe continuum hypothesis. Of course it's extremely famous, but everyone thinks it's resolved. I was astonished to find out that some serious set theorists apparently consider it (I mean in the present, decades past Cohen's proof) to be an important open problem that people should be working on ...

I have added a Wayback Machine link. It seems that the same file can be found in some other places - of course, it's hard to say whether some of those links will remain stable. — Martin Sleziak 28 secs ago
Here I added at least a tooltip: mathoverflow.net/posts/103037/revisions - still, maybe a DOI-link would be better rather than link directly to PDF.
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Vladimir Reshetnikov Is Hilbert's tenth problem for Diophantine equations in rational numbers decidable? Is Hilbert's tenth problem for Diophantine equations of power $3$ decidable? Is there a universal Diophantine equation of power $3$? Is there a universal Diophantine equation containing less than $9$ variables? I...

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Gerald EdgarSome pages: Open Problem Garden The Open Problems Project

The second link seems to be dead - but there is now this page topp.openproblem.net and the title is: "The Open Problems Project edited by Erik D. Demaine, Joseph S. B. Mitchell, Joseph O’Rourke". So it seems like a reasonable guess that it is the same page which used to be in the link given in this post. — Martin Sleziak 19 secs ago
 
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@MartinSleziak Thanks I replaced the link — Gerald Edgar 29 secs ago
@MartinSleziak This post was edited by Gerald Edgar: mathoverflow.net/posts/100278/revisions
BTW that question was bumped by three new answers in August, one in September, one in October - we'll see whether the trend will continue. data.stackexchange.com/mathoverflow/query/1253327/…
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Ángel ValenciaThe Feit-Thompson conjecture is not too famous and it is still open: there are no prime numbers $p\neq q$ such that $$\frac{p^q-1}{p-1}\text{ divides }\frac{q^p-1}{q-1}.$$

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mahdi meisamiFarideh Firoozbakht conjecture states that the sequence $P_n^{1/n}$ is strictly decreasing, where $P_n$ is the $n-$th prime number. This conjecture can also give simple proofs to many theorems related to Prime numbers. It is not proved yet.

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Alessandro Della CorteI like Moser's worm problem: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moser%27s_worm_problem I'm not sure how famous it is, but I believe less than it deserves. In short: what is the area of the smallest planar region such that every curve of unit length can be placed into it?

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hbjjDoes the decimal expansion of $2^n$ contain the digit $7$ for all sufficiently large $n$?

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Dominic van der ZypenIf $2^x$ and $3^x$ are integers for some positive real number $x$, does this imply that $x\in\mathbb{N}$?

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RavenclawPrefectIt is not possible to find three corners of a square that form an equilateral triangle. (Left as an exercise for the reader.) It is, however, possible to find four corners of a cube that form a regular tetrahedron:                                            We could ask: in which dimensions $n>1$...

 
 
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I guess the tag could be suitable here: Hopf algebras vs. Kac algebras. (But I'll leave possible retagging to people familiar with this area. A seaparte issue is that there is no top-level tag.)
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Q: Hopf algebras vs. Kac algebras

dm82424I recently came across Kac algebra. They are roughly Hopf algebras and $C^*$-algebras with compatible structures. It follows from Artin–Wedderburn theorem that every semisimple complex Hopf algebra can be seen as a $C^*$-algebra structure, but I am unsure whether this structure will be compatible...

In mathematics, a Kac–Moody algebra (named for Victor Kac and Robert Moody, who independently and simultaneously discovered them in 1968) is a Lie algebra, usually infinite-dimensional, that can be defined by generators and relations through a generalized Cartan matrix. These algebras form a generalization of finite-dimensional semisimple Lie algebras, and many properties related to the structure of a Lie algebra such as its root system, irreducible representations, and connection to flag manifolds have natural analogues in the Kac–Moody setting. A class of Kac–Moody algebras called affine Lie...
 

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