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113 votes
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What's the "best" proof of quadratic reciprocity?

79 votes
13 answers
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How does an academic mathematician educate him/herself about job opportunities outside academia?

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6 answers
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Are there examples of (successful) NSF mathematics proposals available anywhere online?

70 votes
9 answers
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Is there a slick proof of the classification of finitely generated abelian groups?

70 votes
2 answers
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What is the insight of Quillen's proof that all projective modules over a polynomial ring are free?

52 votes
1 answer
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D-modules, deRham spaces and microlocalization

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6 answers
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Has anything precise been written about the Fukaya category and Lagrangian skeletons?

28 votes
5 answers
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How does one handle two-body job searches?

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1 answer
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Is there an accessible exposition of Gelfand-Tsetlin theory?

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3 answers
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Broader impacts and synergistic activities

26 votes
2 answers
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When does Lusztig's canonical basis have non-positive structure coefficients?

25 votes
1 answer
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"How not to write an NSF proposal" poster: does any one know where to find it online?

21 votes
5 answers
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Easier reference for material like Diaconis's "Group representations in probability and statistics"

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2 answers
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How probable is it that a rational prime will split into principal factors in a Galois number field?

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What do gerbes and complex powers of line bundles have to do with each other?

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0 answers
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Comparing the Kazhdan-Lusztig and Steinberg pre-orders

15 votes
1 answer
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Is there a good notion of "induction" for representations of 2-categories?

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5 answers
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How should I think about B-fields?

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What structure on a monoidal category would make its 2-category of module categories monoidal and braided?

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4 answers
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Is it possible to write a research statement which is too short?

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3 answers
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What bijection on permutations corresponds under RS to transpose?

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5 answers
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What is the Hilbert class field of a cyclotomic field?

14 votes
8 answers
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Automatically updating PDF reader for Windows

14 votes
2 answers
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What are good venues for publishing original mathematical research in monograph form?

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When are the fibers of a resolution of singularities reduced?

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2 answers
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Microlocalizing Hochschild homology

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5 answers
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What kind of geometric operations "scale up" cohomology?

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4 answers
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Why would I want to know (equivariant) quantum cohomology?

12 votes
2 answers
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What do decategorification and "compactification on a circle" have to do with each other?

12 votes
1 answer
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Relations between coefficients of expansions of a rational function at 0 and infinity