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Peter May

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Do we still need model categories?

answered Dec 13, 2011 at 2:05

87 votes

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Proof that a local fibration is a fibration, in May

answered Apr 1, 2017 at 17:31

81 votes

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Why should have Peter May worked with CGWH instead of CGH in "The Geometry of Iterated Loop Space"?

answered Apr 29, 2015 at 1:28

73 votes

Writing papers in pre-LaTeX era?

answered Jul 13, 2012 at 3:43

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Kervaire invariant: Why dimension 126 especially difficult?

answered Jul 1, 2012 at 1:26

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Algebraic topology beyond the basics: any texts bridging the gap?

answered Dec 26, 2011 at 23:39

44 votes

Why higher category theory?

answered Nov 2, 2014 at 22:40

38 votes

The category of posets

answered Mar 16, 2012 at 16:05

37 votes

Mathematical "urban legends"

answered Feb 6, 2011 at 3:37

33 votes

Are spectra really the same as cohomology theories?

answered Dec 31, 2012 at 14:00

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Did Peter May's "The homotopical foundations of algebraic topology" ever appear?

answered Aug 28, 2018 at 16:25

30 votes

Techniques for computing cup products in singular cohomology

answered May 14, 2011 at 19:28

30 votes

Natural transformations as categorical homotopies

answered Sep 3, 2011 at 16:55

28 votes

Heuristic behind $A_{\infty}$ - algebras

answered Mar 7, 2011 at 2:35

26 votes

Why are monads useful?

answered Dec 27, 2011 at 2:44

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Finiteness of stable homotopy groups of spheres

answered Aug 26, 2012 at 22:53

26 votes

Intuition behind Thom class

answered Sep 22, 2012 at 13:18

25 votes

Definition of an E-infinity algebra

answered Feb 3, 2011 at 2:16

25 votes

origin of spectral sequences in algebraic topology

answered Feb 2, 2014 at 20:40

23 votes

Replacing triangulated categories with something better

answered Oct 20, 2019 at 15:52

23 votes

Why do homotopy theorists care whether or not $BP$ is $E_\infty$?

answered Aug 14, 2016 at 22:27

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Modern source for spectra (including ring spectra)

answered Nov 25, 2011 at 23:31

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A toolbox for algebraic topology

answered Jul 13, 2012 at 14:10

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Computations in $\infty$-categories

answered Dec 28, 2011 at 17:39

22 votes

Why study the p-completions of a space?

answered Sep 19, 2015 at 3:03

22 votes

(co)homology of symmetric groups

answered Sep 11, 2014 at 17:22

21 votes

Why localize spaces with respect to homology?

answered Jul 8, 2014 at 2:29

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Does the category of topological symmetric spectra satisfy the monoid axiom ?

answered Dec 4, 2010 at 16:44

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Equivariant homotopy theory: some history questions

answered Sep 4, 2012 at 1:07

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Is there the Whitehead theorem for cohomology theory?

answered Mar 12, 2011 at 4:51

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