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Proofs that require fundamentally new ways of thinking
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What is your favorite “strange” function?
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Pseudonyms of famous mathematicians
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An example of a beautiful proof that would be accessible at the high school level?
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What are examples of mathematical concepts named after the wrong people? (Stigler’s law)
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Noteworthy achievements in and around 2010?
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Life after Hartshorne (the book, not the person)…
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What is a good introductory text for moduli theory?
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Interesting Applications of the Classical Stokes Theorem?
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Applications of finite continued fractions
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Which Fibonacci numbers are the sum of two squares?
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Geometric meaning of Cohen-Macaulay schemes
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Problem in Rick Miranda: finding genus of a Projective curve
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Why are hypergeometric series important and do they have a geometric or heuristic motivation?
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The definition of “proof” throughout the history of mathematics
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when is the power of a nonnegative polynomial a sum of squares?
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Individual mathematical objects whose study amounts to a (sub)discipline? (2)
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Should a published paper with a published correction be replaced on arXiv?
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Looking for interesting actions that are not representations
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Reference in Riemann Surfaces
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Abundance for algebraic surfaces
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Why does so much recent work involve K3 surfaces?
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Which topics/problems could you show to a bright first year mathematics student?
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More upper/lower semi-continuous functions in (algebraic) geometry?
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creating high quality figures of surfaces
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What are some open problems in toric varieties?
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Roadmap to Computer Algebra Systems Usage for Algebraic Geometry
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Examples of non-simply connected manifolds with trivial H^1
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intersection of ideals in a commutative ring vs their product
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Proofs in the same vein as Ax-Grothendieck
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