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Philosophy behind Mochizuki’s work on the ABC conjecture

feb 22 at 18:21 unknown (yahoo) 171●1●10

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A soft introduction to physics for mathematicians who don’t know the first thing about physics

dec 12 at 14:17 nabil 81●5

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Did Grothendieck have a plan for proving Riemann Existence algebraically?

nov 13 11 at 17:35 Joël 9,459●19●52

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Is there an intuitive reason for Zariski’s main theorem?

oct 21 11 at 22:57 Akhil Mathew 12k●2●28●89

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What is the virtue of profinite groups as mathematical objects?

jul 8 11 at 20:59 Benjamin Steinberg 10.6k●1●14●49

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In what ways is physical intuition about mathematical objects non-rigorous?

jun 13 10 at 3:44 jeremy 1,076●7●15

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Mathematically mature way to think about Mayer–Vietoris

may 2 10 at 17:53 Dan Ramras 3,731●2●16●26

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The different types of stacks

jul 1 11 at 9:15 shenghao 2,653●5●23

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Are completions stalks under some Grothendieck topology?

dec 19 10 at 9:56 BCnrd 4,106●1●38●58

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Applications of Stacks

oct 16 10 at 15:38 Greg Muller 7,447●1●21●52

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