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JS Milne
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120 votes

Is a free alternative to MathSciNet possible?

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Is there a slick proof of the classification of finitely generated abelian groups?

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Why do people think that abelian varieties are the hardest case for the Hodge conjecture?

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Logic comment in Mumford's Red Book

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Is every finite-dimensional Lie algebra the Lie algebra of an algebraic group?

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Is the category of commutative group schemes abelian?

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Exact short sequences of vector spaces

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The Relationship between Complex and Algebraic Geomety

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Books on reductive groups using scheme theory

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What algebraic group does Tannaka-Krein reconstruct when fed the category of modules of a non-algebraic Lie algebra?

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Haar measure on a quotient, References for

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Learning Class Field Theory: Local or Global First?

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Where can we find Deligne's paper " Theorie de Hodge I"?

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When to start reviewing

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Best mathematics conference?

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Weil Conjectures for nonprojective algebraic varieties

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What's so great about blackboards?

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Tips on cohomology for number theory

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How many groups of size at most n are there? What is the asymptotic growth rate? And what of rings, fields, graphs, partial orders, etc.?

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What does "linearly disjoint" mean for abstract field extensions?

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Why does the naive definition of compactly supported étale cohomology give the wrong answer?

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Which math paper maximizes the ratio (importance)/(length)?

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Etale cohomology and l-adic Tate modules

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What are the automorphism groups of (principally polarized) abelian varieties?

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Motivation for the étale topology over other possibilities

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A telegram by Grothendieck to Serre

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Why are modular forms (usually) defined only for congruence subgroups?

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Lifting Etale Morphisms

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"Fermat's last theorem" and anabelian geometry?

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Is every subgroup of an algebraic group a stabilizer for some action?