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How does an academic mathematician educate him/herself about job opportunities outside academia?

sep 12 at 7:09 philipsteele 1

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What’s the “best” proof of quadratic reciprocity?

apr 20 at 22:10 ACL 4,255●12●24

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What is the insight of Quillen’s proof that all projective modules over a polynomial ring are free?

nov 20 at 23:12 unknown (google) 5,540●6●29

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Are there examples of (successful) NSF mathematics proposals available anywhere online?

sep 18 10 at 1:35 Andy Putman 18.3k●3●55●118

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Is there a slick proof of the classification of finitely generated abelian groups?

oct 28 10 at 1:50 Emerton 39k●4●120●198

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How does one handle two-body job searches?

nov 15 09 at 16:39 JSE 13.4k●33●83

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“How not to write an NSF proposal” poster: does any one know where to find it online?

sep 11 10 at 2:22 MathOverflow♦ 1●2●3

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D-modules, deRham spaces and microlocalization

jan 5 10 at 14:26 Ben Webster♦ 20.7k●1●44●114

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When does Lusztig’s canonical basis have non-positive structure coefficients?

oct 16 10 at 0:06 Ben Webster♦ 20.7k●1●44●114

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Is there a good notion of “induction” for representations of 2-categories?

feb 15 at 19:22 Evan Jenkins 4,146●1●8●21

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