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Jacob Lurie
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If I want to study Jacob Lurie's books "Higher Topoi Theory", "Derived AG", what prerequisites should I have?

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Hirzebruch's motivation of the Todd class

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Is there a high-concept explanation for why "simplicial" leads to "homotopy-theoretic"?

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What is homology anyway?

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Are morphisms from affine schemes to arbitrary schemes affine morphisms?

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What's the current state of the classification of not-fully-extended TQFTs?

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Is Lemma A.1.5.7 in Higher Topos Theory correct?

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What is a simplicial commutative ring from the point of view of homotopy theory?

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What's so special about the forgetful functor from G-rep to Vect?

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Reflection principle vs universes

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What is a symmetric monoidal $(\infty,n)$-category?

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Relation between topos and $\infty$-topos

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What are simplicial topological spaces intuitively?

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Reflection principle vs universes

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What do cohomology operations have to do with the non-existence of commutative cochains over $\mathbb{Z}$?

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How much do universes matter in topos theory?

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Stable homotopy category and the moduli space of formal groups

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How do $\infty$-categories allow us to do descent on the derived level?

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Functorial kernel in derived category

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Why study simplicial homotopy groups?

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compact objects in model categories and $(\infty,1)$-categories

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The weak equivalences in the covariant model structure

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Semi-simplicial versus simplicial sets (and simplicial categories)

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What would be an infinity-groupoid analogue of the duality between sets and complete atomic boolean algebras?

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Examples of $(\infty,1)$-topoi that are not given as sheaves on a Grothendieck topology

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Lower Algebra: Modules over the monoidal category of abelian groups

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Are there noncommutative extensions of $\alpha_p$ by $\mathbb{G}_m$?

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elliptic curves and group cohomology

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Where to find the correct result in Higher Algebra, incorrect reference

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When is a functor a right derived functor?