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Mathematical “urban legends” (3)
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What universities have laid off tenured math faculty for financial reasons?
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Can non-homeomorphic spaces have homeomorphic squares?
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Math puzzles for dinner
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Famous mathematicians with background in arts/humanities/law etc
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Why do so many textbooks have so much technical detail and so little enlightenment?
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How has modern algebraic geometry affected other areas of math?
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Analytic tools in algebraic geometry
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Facts from algebraic geometry that are useful to non-algebraic geometers (2)
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What are some of the big open problems in 3-manifold theory? (2)
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Your favorite surprising connections in Mathematics
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Can a Lie group as an abstract group be given more than one topology making it a Lie group?
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What are some open problems in algebraic geometry?
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Are the stiefel-Whitney classes of the tangent bundle determined by the mod 2 cohomology?
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Is it true that every projective curve is a union of two affine curves?
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“Largest” finite-dimensional Lie subgroups of Diff(S^n), are they known?
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How do professional mathematicians learn new things?
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Birational invariants and fundamental groups
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Rolle’s theorem in n dimensions
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If the total Chern class of a vector bundle factors, does it have a sub-bundle?
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Ideas on how to prevent a department from being shut down.
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Does there exist a complex Lie group G such that …
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How to disjoint two cycles with zero intersection?
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Why the similarity between Hodge theory for compact Riemannian and complex manifolds?
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Classification problem for non-compact manifolds
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(Co)homology of the Eilenberg-MacLane spaces K(G.n)
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Group Structure on CP^infinty
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Is every closed embedded codimension-n submanifold cut out by a section of a rank-n vector bundle?
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On the fundamental group of hypersurfaces
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Non-stably trivial bundle with trivial charactertic classes
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