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Proofs of Bott periodicity

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jun 8 at 2:00 Robert Bruner 857●3●11

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Where does a math person go to learn quantum mechanics?

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mar 23 at 15:20 Dylan Wilson 3,926●2●14●36

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What do heat kernels have to do with the Riemann-Roch theorem and the Gauss-Bonnet theorem?

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mar 23 at 7:02 chairman mao 1

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Motivation for algebraic K-theory?

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jun 14 11 at 14:25 Anil P 33●6

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Prime numbers as knots: Alexander polynomial

nt.number-theory knot-theory

dec 1 11 at 3:02 Chandan Singh Dalawat 11.5k●1●39●74

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What do Weierstrass points look like?

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aug 24 at 11:11 David Singerman 61●1●1

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Questions about analogy between Spec Z and 3-manifolds

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nov 26 at 6:59 Thomas Riepe 5,897●1●24●56

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“Algebraic” topologies like the Zariski topology?

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nov 27 10 at 20:36 mmm 742●3●8

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Is there a good way to think of vanishing cycles and nearby cycles?

ag.algebraic-geometry sheaf-theory motivation intuition

nov 8 09 at 19:20 S. Carnahan♦ 25.6k●41●90

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What is the relationship between motivic cohomology and the theory of motives?

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jul 22 at 1:24 Makhalan Duff 3,827●5●36

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Complete discrete valuation rings with residue field ℤ/p

nt.number-theory

jan 3 10 at 10:22 Chandan Singh Dalawat 11.5k●1●39●74

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Help motivating log-structures

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mar 2 12 at 17:17 Andrew Staal 1●1

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What can we do with a coarse moduli space that we can’t do with a DM moduli stack?

ag.algebraic-geometry stacks

nov 11 10 at 10:57 steve 1

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Does the moduli space of smooth curves of genus g contain an elliptic curve

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aug 1 at 22:15 Sándor Kovács 23.8k●2●53●73

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fpqc covers of stacks

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feb 16 10 at 2:29 BCnrd 4,116●1●38●58