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Examples of simultaneous independent breakthroughs
A very recent example appears to be the simultaneous discovery of functorial (and "easy") resolution of singularities in characteristic 0 by McQuillan-Marzo (arXiv:1906.06745) respectively Abramovich- …
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Short papers for undergraduate course on reading scholarly math
Might László Lovász' resolution of the Kneser conjecture qualify?
Lovász, L. Kneser's conjecture, chromatic number, and homotopy. J. Combin. Theory Ser. A 25 (1978) 319–324.
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The statement …
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Algebraic geometry examples
One of my favourite sets of examples, stolen from Miles Reid, is the determination of rings $R=\oplus_m H^0(X, mD)$ for ample divisors $D$ on projective varieties $X$. A nice sequence, where a lot of …
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Papers that debunk common myths in the history of mathematics
David Fowler's book "The Mathematics Of Plato's Academy: A New Reconstruction" sets out to deconstruct the myth that "the early Pythagoreans based their mathematics on commensurable magnitudes, but th …
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Interesting applications (in pure mathematics) of first-year calculus
Following on from the Galois theory example of Johannes, one straightforward way to produce an explicit polynomial with non-soluble Galois group over ${\mathbb Q}$ is to use an irreducible quintic wit …
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Do you read the masters?
Bolyai: Appendix, the first account of non-Euclidean geometry by one of its inventors. If nothing else, the beauty, clarity and brevity of exposition alone make this a must-read.