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The study of differentiable manifolds and differentiable maps. One fundamental problem is that of classifying manifolds up to diffeomorphism. Differential topology is what Poincaré understood as topology or “analysis situs”.

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Which of the proofs of the fundamental theorem of algebra can actually produce bounds on whe...

One of the old classic MO questions is a big-list of proofs of the fundamental theorem of algebra. Here is a second big-list question about this big list: Which of the FTA proofs can, even in prin …
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When is there a submersion from a sphere into a sphere?

(First posted on math.SE, with no answers.) That is: For which positive integers $n, k \ge 1$ does there exist a submersion $S^{n+k} \to S^k$? The discussion at this math.SE question has narro …
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Are there periodicity phenomena in manifold topology with odd period?

The study of $n$-manifolds has some well-known periodicities in $n$ with period a power of $2$: $n \bmod 2$ is important. Poincaré duality implies that odd-dimensional compact oriented manifolds ha …
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