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Answer by Sil for Most memorable titles

"49598666989151226098104244512918" by Michael Filaseta and Samuel Gross

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Answer by Linus for Most memorable titles

Old and new on SL(2) by Hilgert and Hofmann. I heard that the authors wrote a sequel with the title More is true on SL(2), but that the editors insisted on a different title.

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Answer by Vladimir Dotsenko for Most memorable titles

« Autopsie d'un meurtre » dans l'homologie d'une algèbre de chaînes ("Anatomy of a murder" in the homology of a chain algebra)by J.-M. Lemaire,http://www.numdam.org/item/ASENS_1978_4_11_1_93_0/(For...

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Answer by Mark L. Stone for Most memorable titles

Honey, I Shrunk the Sample Covariance Matrix

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On the more applied side of things, I'm quite fond of the following (sub)title:Estimating the number of unseen species: A bird in the hand is worth $\log n$ in the bush

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Answer by Lukas Heger for Most memorable titles

A Cohomological Viewpoint on Elementary School Arithmetic

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Answer by Tom Copeland for Most memorable titles

Mathematical physics, for the allusion: "The Unbearable Beingness of Light, Dressing and Undressing Photons in Black Hole Spacetimes" by Timothy J. Hollowood, Graham M. Shore

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Answer by Xi Li for Most memorable titles

Smullyan: what is the name of this book?Mazzola: The Topos of Music

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Answer by Per Alexandersson for Most memorable titles

Using the Logistic Map to Generate Scratching SoundsThe first sentence in the abstract:This article presents a mathematical model for generating annoyingscratching sounds.

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Answer by tim penttila for Most memorable titles

Mickley, Smith and Korchak's Fluid flow in packed beds.(No-one in fluid mechanics seems to be willing to see the innuendo. Theyall want to explain the effect on the Reynolds number. And they hate itif...

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Answer by darij grinberg for Most memorable titles

Kevin Buchin, Maike Buchin, Christian Knauer, Günter Rote, Carola Wenk, How Difficult is it to Walk the Dog?, In: Abstracts of the 23rd European Workshop on Computational Geometry, Graz, March 2007,...

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Answer by Milo Moses for Most memorable titles

My personal favorite is Elisabetta A. Matsumoto's:"The Taming of the Screw: or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Elliptic Functions"which can be found here. It is a very good read, and the title...

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Answer by C.F.G for Most memorable titles

The book of Serge Lang: $\mathrm{SL}_2(\Bbb R)$.Lang, Serge, $\mathrm{SL}_2(\Bbb R)$, Reading, Mass. etc.: Addison-Wesley Publishing Company. XVI, 428 p. $19.50 (1975). ZBL0311.22001.

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Answer by Daniele Tampieri for Most memorable titles

Gaetano Fichera's "Avere una memoria tenace crea gravi problemi" [Having a persistent memory creates serious problems], (Italian), Archive for Rational Mechanics and Analysis 70, 101-112 (1979),...

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Answer by Shaoyun Bai for Most memorable titles

The Chekanov torus in $S^2\times S^2$ is not real. Quite a philosophical title and I could never forget about it...

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Answer by Mike Earnest for Most memorable titles

How often should you beat your kids?, by Don Zagier. The conclusion is that you should beat your kids every day except Sunday!The word "beat" in this context means to defeat your child in a certain...

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Answer by Richard Stanley for Most memorable titles

At some point in time the Erdős collaboration graph did not contain an (induced) $K_5$, but it did contain a $K_5$ with one edge missing. Someone showed me a paper with a title something like "The...

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Answer by Rahman. M for Most memorable titles

However the question is about papers but it is worth mentioning the title of Ketonen's PhD thesis: "Everything You Wanted to Know About Ultrafilters But Were Afraid to Ask" !

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Answer by Jon Bannon for Most memorable titles

Andrew Ranicki and the late John Roe were writingSurgery for AmateursA spectacularly funny title, I think.The incomplete, but very nice, notes can be found online. Thanks again to Nigel Higson for his...

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Answer by Mare for Most memorable titles

"K-theory doesn't exist" by Ethan Akin: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0022404978900324

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