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38 votes

Direct proof of irrationality?

25 votes

The concept of duality

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whence commutative diagrams?

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ADE type Dynkin diagrams

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What properties of knots lead Lord Kelvin to hypothesize that atoms were knots in the ether?

12 votes

Essential reads in the philosophy of mathematics and set theory

11 votes

Is there an introduction to probability theory from a structuralist/categorical perspective?

11 votes

Logic in mathematics and philosophy

11 votes

Stable homotopy type theory?

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Reference request: 2-Grothendieck Construction

9 votes

What is an Elementary "Homotopy, Model" Topos?

9 votes

Analogue to covering space for higher homotopy groups?

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What are some examples of interesting uses of the theory of combinatorial species?

8 votes

Failures that lead eventually to new mathematics

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Can infinity shorten proofs a lot?

7 votes

What is "rich structure", actually?

7 votes

Ubiquity of the push-pull formula

7 votes

How is tropicalization like taking the classical limit?

6 votes

Co-induction understanding

6 votes

What can't be described by categories?

6 votes

What is a monoidal metric space?

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Categorification of logic

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The ring of integers looks like the 3-dimensional sphere viewed as the Hopf fibration

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How do you decide whether a question in abstract algebra is worth studying?

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What is the precise relationship between pyknoticity and cohesiveness?

6 votes

References for differential cohomology and differential characters

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A terminal coalgebra of a certain functor on Mes

5 votes

What is the precise relationship between pyknoticity and cohesiveness?

5 votes

Is there a relationship between model theory and category theory?

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Analogies between analogies