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Thurston’s senior thesis at New College

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Atiyah-Singer index theorem

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Top specialized journals

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Fundamental groups of noncompact surfaces

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Triangulating surfaces

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Torsion in GL_n(Z)

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Generators for congruence subgroups of SL_2

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First Chern class of a flat line bundle

dec 29 11 at 7:02 Andy Putman 18.7k●3●57●119

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Which mathematicians have influenced you the most?
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Examples of common false beliefs in mathematics.
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How do I fix someone’s published error?
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Best online mathematics videos?
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What are some correct results discovered with incorrect (or no) proofs? (2)
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What are fixed points of the Fourier Transform
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When is a Homology Class Represented by a Submanifold?
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Computations in group cohomology
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Homeomorphisms and disjoint unions
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Is there a Whitney Embedding Theorem for non-smooth manifolds?
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Which manifolds are homeomorphic to simplicial complexes?
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Sources for Bibtex entries
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Introductory text on geometric group theory?
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Liouville’s theorem with your bare hands
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Publication and Career as a fresh Ph.D
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Are homeomorphic open subsets of $\mathbb{R}^n$ also diffeomorphic?
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Which math paper maximizes the ratio (importance)/(length)?
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Cohomology of fibrations over the circle (2)
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Are there good programs to create mathematical pictures in svg format?
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Do the following set of Dehn twists generate the mapping class group?
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Explicit element in free group which is killed by every solvable quotient
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Why is the fundamental group of a compact Riemann surface not free ?
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Which are the best mathematics journals, and what are the differences between them?
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What’s a non-abelian totally ordered group?
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Conformal maps in higher dimensions
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Distinguishing congruence subgroups of the modular group
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Distributions more complicated than the Dirac δ and derivatives
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Good books in Modular Representation Theory
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Homotopy type of the plane minus a sequence with no limit points
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What counts as an ‘invited’ talk?
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