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Charles Matthews
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66 votes

Teaching proofs in the era of Google

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What is the proper initiation to the theory of motives for a new student of algebraic geometry?

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Why is the Hodge Conjecture so important?

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Origin of terms "flag", "flag manifold", "flag variety"?

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Gauss's views on pure mathematics

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How to motivate and present epsilon-delta proofs to undergraduates?

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What elementary problems can you solve with schemes?

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How to understand the concept of compact space

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The multiplicative order of 2 modulo primes

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When have we lost a body of mathematics because errors were found?

17 votes

prime powers between n and 2n

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Why were Abelian functions so important in the 19th century?

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Is there a "crash-course" book on Abelian varieties (e.g., an introduction for physicists)?

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What is sheaf cohomology intuitively?

16 votes

To what extent is it true that "number theory = mathematics"?

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4900, a particularly square number

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Au revoir, law of excluded middle?

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Gossip about Grothendieck and distributive lattices

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What is the situation with Hilbert's Fifth Problem?

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When is a ring the ring of adeles of some global field

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Ado's Theorem Proof

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Elementary examples of the Weil conjectures

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Theorems which say "such and such method cannot possibly prove FLT"

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What is your favorite isomorphism?

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To what extent can algorithms in undergraduate linear algebra be made continuous/polynomial/etc.?

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Approaches to Riemann hypothesis using methods outside number theory

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Solve in positive integers $n!=m^2$

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Statements reliant on conjectures

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What is the general geometric interpretation of modules in algebraic geometry?

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Is Algebraic Geometry really natural?

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