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Colin McLarty
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15 votes

Reflection principle vs universes

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Equivalence between Lowenheim-Skolem Theorem and Godel Completeness

7 votes

The conceptual difference in notations of Cat

8 votes

Problems for developing mathematical visualization expertise

6 votes

What is known about the reverse mathematics of algebraic number fields?

3 votes

Can Hasse-Minkowski be proved without class field theory?

15 votes

Idea of using etale site

24 votes
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Authorship of Grothendieck universes

2 votes

When was Bounded Zermelo set theory first formulated?

1 vote
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Elementary proof of bounds on factor polynomials

1 vote
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Interpreting the Galois theory of finite extensions of $\mathbb{Q}$ in PA

3 votes
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Are there any consequences of the initial object in Set being unique, while the isomorphism class of terminal objects is nontrivial?

11 votes
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Where does the notation $\pi_1(X,x)$ for the fundamental group first appear?

2 votes
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The importance of generating series in Algebraic Geometry

15 votes

What is the source of this famous Grothendieck quote?

6 votes
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Who first realized that the shortest distance between two points is a straight line?

6 votes

Lingering foundational question about sheaves of abelian groups

7 votes
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Does the bundle of germs of functions $f:X\to \mathbb R$ have the same sheaf of sections as $X\times \mathbb R$?

6 votes
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(Finite) Models of two subtheories of Peano Arithmetic

1 vote
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The Hasse Minkowski theorem in Peano arithmetic

6 votes

Rigid analytic spaces vs Berkovich spaces vs Formal schemes

0 votes
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Rigidity, moduli space, and moduli field

3 votes
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Algebraic numbers and the complex projective line minus three points

23 votes

Why did Bourbaki's Élements omit the theory of categories?

11 votes

When must it be sets rather than proper classes, or vice-versa, outside of foundational mathematics?

4 votes
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Finite order arithmetic and ETCS

5 votes
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Show that $A$ cartesian closed need not imply $A^J$ is cartesian closed.

7 votes
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product operation: name and notation

3 votes
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Ideals of etale structure sheaves