Richard Borcherds

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Suggestions for good notation

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Has the Lie group E8 really been detected experimentally?

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Algebraic geometry examples

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Is all ordinary mathematics contained in high school mathematics?

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When does iterating z -> z^2 + c have an exact solution?

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Lie group examples

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Demonstrating that rigour is important (2)
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Jokes in the sense of Littlewood: examples? (2)
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What would you want on a Lie theory cheat poster? (6)
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Series whose convergence is not known
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Number of finite simple groups of given order is at most 2 - is a classification-free proof possible?
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Ingenuity in mathematics (2)
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What, exactly, has Louis de Branges proved about the Riemann Hypothesis?
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Heuristic argument that finite simple groups _ought_ to be “classifiable”?
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What is the motivation for a vertex algebra?
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German mathematical terms like “Nullstellensatz”
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The Monster Group uses in mathematical physics
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Refereeing a Paper
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Classification of finite groups of isometries
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Teaching proofs in the era of Google
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Why can’t proofs have infinitely many steps?
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“Why” is every polynomial representation of SL(2) selfdual?
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What are “classical groups”?
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Why aren’t representations of monoids studied so much?
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Are topological manifolds homotopy equivalent to smooth manifolds?
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Use of Conjectures to Prove a Theorem
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What are some open problems in algebraic geometry?
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Inaccessible cardinals and Andrew Wiles’s proof
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Theorems which say “such and such method cannot possibly prove FLT”
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What is the spectrum of the ring of entire functions?
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Exceptional Lie algebras
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What is the relationship between modular forms and Maass forms?
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Is the blowup of a normal scheme necessarily normal?
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Why aren’t there more classifying spaces in number theory?
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Roadmap to a proof of the Atiyah-Singer Index Theorem which uses K-Theory
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Describe a topic in one sentence.
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