This evocative essay focuses on the mathematical activities witnessed by the author along 1962-64 at IMPA. The list of research problems proposed in September 1962 by Mauricio Peixoto at the Seminar on the Qualitative Theory of Differential Equations is pointed out as a landmark for the genesis of the research interest in the Qualitative Theory of Differential Equations and Dynamical Systems in Brazil.
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