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Proofs that require fundamentally new ways of thinking
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What should be learned in a first serious schemes course? (2)
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Careers advice for Ph.D.s without current postdocs or university jobs
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What notions are used but not clearly defined in modern mathematics?
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Reference letters for graduate school after a couple years in the industry
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Mathematical habits of thought and action which would be of use to non-mathematicians
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Ingenuity in mathematics
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The importance of EGA and SGA for “students of today”
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Why do so many textbooks have so much technical detail and so little enlightenment?
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why study Lie algebras?
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Why is the Hodge Conjecture so important?
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Should I not cite an arxiv.org paper?
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Modern algebraic geometry vs. classical algebraic geometry
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What elementary problems can you solve with schemes? (2)
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What does it mean for a mathematical statement to be true?
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what mistakes did the Italian algebraic geometers actually make?
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Is Galois theory necessary (in a basic graduate algebra course)?
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Good papers/books/essays about the thought process behind mathematical research
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Is Fourier analysis a special case of representation theory or an analogue?
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Elementary / Interesting proofs of the Nullstellensatz
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Books about history of recent mathematics
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How much of differential geometry can be developed entirely without atlases?
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Why should I believe the Mordell Conjecture?
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Non-commutative algebraic geometry
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roadmap for studying arithmetic geometry
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How seriously should a graduate student take teaching evaluations? (2)
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How to escape the inclination to be a universalist or: How to learn to stop worrying and do some research.
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Is there a slick proof of the classification of finitely generated abelian groups?
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How many people fully understand the proof of Fermat’s Last Theorem?
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Interesting results in algebraic geometry accessible to 3rd year undergraduates
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