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I am currently an Assistant Professor (Tenure Track) in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Northern British Columbia. Previously I was a postdoc at the University of Toronto and a NSERC Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Oxford. For my PHD I was advised by Professor Cameron Stewart, FRSC.

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Books on music theory intended for mathematicians
Feb 26, 2017
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Theorems that are essentially impossible to guess by empirical observation
Dec 29, 2021
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Famous vacuously true statements
Aug 1, 2013
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Examples of famous 'workhorse' theorems
Jul 24, 2014
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Ruling out the existence of a strange polynomial
Nov 24, 2022
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Do's and don'ts of writing survey papers
Jul 10, 2014
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Cases where the number field case and the function field (with positive characteristic) are different
Jul 28, 2014
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New proofs to major theorems leading to new insights and results?
Feb 10, 2011
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Is the following sum irrational?
Jun 17, 2014
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Status of the $x^2 + 1$ problem
Dec 7, 2013
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Should graduate students be encouraged to participate in MO? If so, at what stage?
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Proving a sequence involved in Apéry's proof of the irrationality of $\zeta(3)$, converges
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When did people know that all real polynomials of degree greater than 2 were reducible?
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Curious representation of primes
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The degree of an algebraic curve in higher dimensions
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Primes for which a polynomial splits completely

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