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What would you want to see at the Museum of Mathematics? (3)
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How do you approach your child’s math education?
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Intuitive explanation for the Atiyah-Singer index theorem
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Spectral sequences: opening the black box slowly with an example
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What is the difference between homology and cohomology?
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“Why the heck are the homotopy groups of the sphere so damn complicated?”
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understanding Steenrod squares
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How should one think about pushforward in cohomology?
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Why does one think to Steenrod squares and powers?
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Construction of the Stiefel-Whitney and Chern Classes
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Understanding iterated integrals
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How should I visualise RP^n?
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Essential theorems in group (co)homology
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References for homotopy colimit
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Why aren’t there more classifying spaces in number theory?
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How can I visualize the nontrivial element of $\pi_4(S^3)$ and $\pi_5(S^3)$ ?
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What would be the ramifications of homotopy theory being as easy as homology theory?
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Detailed proof of cup product equivalent to intersection
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homotopy of sphere maps
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How to get product on cohomology using the K(G, n)?
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Natural setting for characteristic classes?
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Applications of the Brown Representability Theorem
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Is there any analogs of Vassiliev invariants in higher dimensions?
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Advantages of working with CW complexes/spaces over Kan complexes/simplicial sets?
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What is the (Koszul? derived?) interpretation of a pair of Lie algebras with the same cohomology?
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$\pi_4$ of simply-connected 4-manifold
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Homotopy commutativity of the cup product
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Reference for functors in Kadeishvili’s C_\infty paper
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Which sets of Stiefel-Whitney characteristic numbers be realized as coming from a manifold?
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homotopy invariant and coinvariant
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