Daniel Moskovich

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I am a postdoc working on quantum topology of knots and 3-manifolds, although most of what I'm actually doing is fairly classical. I am currently a postdoc at the Nanyang Technological University. I blog on mathematics that interests me at Low Dimensional Topology.
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What are Jacob Lurie’s key insights?

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Extending a diffeomorphism of S^2 to D^3

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Why is the volume conjecture important?

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Mathematical “urban legends” (2)
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Which mathematical ideas have done most to change history? (2)
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Demonstrating that rigour is important (2)
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Theorems that are ‘obvious’ but hard to prove (4)
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Most interesting mathematics mistake?
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What are some examples of ingenious, unexpected constructions? (2)
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What are some examples of colorful language in serious mathematics papers? (3)
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A Book You Would Like to Write
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Jokes in the sense of Littlewood: examples?
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Examples of common false beliefs in mathematics.
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Blackbox Theorems
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When to start reviewing
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Books you would like to read (if somebody would just write them…)
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Is Grothendieck a computer?
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What would you want to see at the Museum of Mathematics?
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Not especially famous, long-open problems which anyone can understand (3)
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objects which can’t be defined without making choices but which end up independent of the choice
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How to motivate and present epsilon-delta proofs to undergraduates?
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In knot theory: Benefits of working in $S^3$ instead of $\mathbb{R}^3$?
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Examples of theorems misapplied to non-mathematical contexts
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Proofs of Kirby’s theorem
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Best Algebraic Geometry text book? (other than Hartshorne)
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Simple examples for the use of spectral sequences
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Motivation for algebraic K-theory? (2)
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Things that should be positive integers…really?
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On connection between Knot theory and Operator algebra
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Mathematicians whose works were criticized by contemporaries but became widely accepted later
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Status of PL topology
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Is there a volume conjecture for closed 3-manifolds?
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Fundamental Examples (2)
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