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David White
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Math papers where the only issue is that someone else could've done it but didn't

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Suggestions for special lectures at next ICM

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Suggestions for special lectures at next ICM

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What are your favorite instructional counterexamples?

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How to write mathematics without typing?

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What to do after a pure math academic path?

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Short exact sequences every mathematician should know

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Mark Hovey's open problems in the theory of model categories

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Tips for reading arXiv papers in mathematics

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Mathematical habits of thought and action which would be of use to non-mathematicians

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Important open problems that have already been reduced to a finite but infeasible amount of computation

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Advice for PhD Supervisors

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How to indicate when another author has done nothing significant

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Conjecture vs open question on a paper

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Best Springer mathematics books

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Can the place of publication be harmful to one's reputation?

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Higher Topos Theory- what's the moral?

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Treating citation numbers as objects

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What is modern algebraic topology(homotopy theory) about?

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Examples of great mathematical writing

25 votes

A global mathematics library

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Why does mathematics seem to have a polarity bias?

24 votes

What does actually being a CW-complex provide in algebraic topology?

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Why not a Roadmap for Homotopy Theory and Spectra?

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Cayley's Theorem and the Yoneda Lemma

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Publishing undergraduate research

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Changing Careers: Becoming a Professional Mathematician

20 votes

What are your favorite instructional counterexamples?

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Which great mathematicians had great political commitments?

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Timeline of "foundational" advances in homotopy theory?

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