David Speyer

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I am a professor at the University of Michigan. I work in combinatorics and algebraic geometry; I think a lot about cluster algebras, matroids and classical algebraic geometry. I enjoy thinking about number theory, although it is not a research interest of mine.
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What is known about this plethysm?

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Can assignment solve stable marriage?

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What should be learned in a first serious schemes course? (3)
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Applications of the Chinese remainder theorem (3)
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Why do primes dislike dividing the sum of all the preceding primes?
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Invertible matrices of natural numbers are permutations… why?
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Examples where it’s useful to know that a mathematical object belongs to some family of objects (3)
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Why Mertens could not prove the prime number theorem?
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Irreducibility of polynomials in two variables
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What is the Hirzebruch-Riemann-Roch formula for the flag variety of a Lie algebra?
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Is no proof based on “tertium non datur” sufficient any more after Gödel?
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What should be offered in undergraduate mathematics that’s currently not (or isn’t usually)?
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Generating a finite group from elements in each conjugacy class
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$\prod_{n=1}^{\infty} n{}^{\mu(n)}=\frac{1}{4 \pi ^2}$
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Examples of common false beliefs in mathematics. (3)
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Open problems with monetary rewards
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Are the Millennium Prize Problems all decidable?
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Chain homotopy: Why du+ud and not du+vd? (2)
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Strengthening the Induction Hypothesis
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What would you want on a Lie theory cheat poster? (2)
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When is the product of two ideals equal to their intersection?
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Character table does not determine group Vs Tannaka duality
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Calculating the “Most Helpful” review
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Can algebraic varieties be rigidified by finite sets of points? (2)
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Expected determinant of a random NxN matrix.
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Recovering representation from its character
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$Q(\sqrt{2})=Q((\sqrt{2}+1)^n)$
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Non-Diagonalizable Doubly Stochastic Matrices
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Analogue of the Chebyshev polynomials over C?
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f(f(x))=exp(x)-1 and other functions “just in the middle” between linear and exponential. (2)
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“Are you more intelligent than the average of those who are more intelligent than the average?”
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