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39 votes
8 answers
12k views

Can Cantor set be the zero set of a continuous function?

30 votes
5 answers
4k views

How many of the true sentences are provable?

17 votes
1 answer
1k views

Why the name "variety" and the notation "V" for zeroes of polynomials?

15 votes
3 answers
2k views

Can a curve intersect a given curve only at given points?

14 votes
0 answers
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Ample divisors on projective surfaces

13 votes
2 answers
4k views

Interpretation of multiplicity of a point

11 votes
2 answers
1k views

The space of polynomials with all real roots

10 votes
1 answer
749 views

Are there non-projective normal surfaces which are rational?

9 votes
1 answer
756 views

Pathologies of analytic (non-algebraic) varieties.

7 votes
1 answer
1k views

Is the absolutely continuous image of a nowhere dense set is also nowhere dense?

7 votes
1 answer
1k views

Appropriate journal to publish a determinantal inequality

7 votes
2 answers
2k views

Is being reduced a generic property of schemes?

6 votes
1 answer
532 views

What is the genus of the limit of a family of singular curves?

6 votes
0 answers
185 views

History of the definition of completeness of algebraic varieties (and properness of morphisms)

6 votes
2 answers
416 views

Common/well-known results with natural and/or useful reformulations

6 votes
3 answers
1k views

Intersection of finitely generated subalgebras also finitely generated?

6 votes
2 answers
3k views

Geometric interpretation of the exact sequence for the cotangent bundle of the projective space

5 votes
2 answers
817 views

Godel's 1st incompleteness theorem - clarification.

5 votes
7 answers
955 views

Reference for elementary and "cool" statistics or financial math

5 votes
1 answer
1k views

Discovery of Hilbert polynomial

4 votes
1 answer
1k views

Computing fundamental groups of the complement of plane curves

4 votes
1 answer
1k views

Tensor product of a line bundle with a large multiple of another positive line bundle also positive?

3 votes
0 answers
259 views

Contracting rational curves on surfaces and getting something non-algebraic

3 votes
1 answer
314 views

How to determine "genericness" of an element of a family of algebraic varieties?

3 votes
2 answers
736 views

How to determine if a given set of polynomials has dense linear span in $L^2([0,1])$?

3 votes
1 answer
241 views

Is there a variety which is not locally set theoretic complete intersection?

3 votes
1 answer
207 views

Van der Waerden's classical paper on Hilbert polynomials and Bezout's theorem

2 votes
0 answers
111 views

When $k(f(x), g(x)) = k(x)$? In other words, when is a given polynomial parametrization of an affine planar (rational) curve proper?

2 votes
1 answer
138 views

For an element in the integral closure of an ideal $I$ - which power is in $I$?

2 votes
0 answers
121 views

Pole of a function in a diagonal embedding of a normal affine variety.