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Joe Silverman

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Brown University Mathematics Department

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A book you would like to write

answered Feb 3, 2011 at 21:30

58 votes

'Important' applications of p-adic numbers outside of algebra (and number theory).

answered Dec 26, 2011 at 20:18

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Formal group laws and L-series

answered Jan 16, 2011 at 20:01

51 votes

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Have the tides ever turned twice on any open problem?

answered Mar 16, 2019 at 14:38

50 votes

How does "modern" number theory contribute to further understanding of $\mathbb{N}$?

answered Dec 1, 2012 at 22:00

47 votes

Why do roots of polynomials tend to have absolute value close to 1?

answered Oct 3, 2014 at 1:22

45 votes

The origin(s) of the word "elliptic"

answered May 8, 2020 at 11:01

38 votes

Formal group laws and L-series

answered Jan 16, 2011 at 18:12

37 votes

What's a mathematician to do?

answered Jan 1, 2012 at 5:54

37 votes

Uninteresting questions with interesting answers

answered Mar 24, 2015 at 11:45

36 votes

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The period of Fibonacci numbers over finite fields

answered Aug 24, 2020 at 20:15

34 votes

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Universality of $y^4-x^3$ mod $p$

answered Jan 17, 2019 at 13:17

33 votes

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Any simple concrete proof of Faltings theorem?

answered Jan 5, 2018 at 14:11

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Cryptography and elliptic curves

answered May 9, 2019 at 11:45

31 votes

Why does so much recent work involve K3 surfaces?

answered Mar 23, 2011 at 22:36

29 votes

On the polynomial $\sum_{k=0}^n\binom{n}{k}(-1)^kX^{k(n-k)}$

answered Mar 29, 2018 at 0:26

28 votes

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Two polynomials which are "completely" coprime

answered Mar 21, 2023 at 20:39

28 votes

Free open-access peer-reviewed math journals

answered Feb 15, 2016 at 16:20

27 votes

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Is there an analog of the Birch/Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture for abelian varieties in higher dimensions?

answered Sep 25, 2014 at 0:02

27 votes

Why are two "random" vectors in $\mathbb R^n$ approximately orthogonal for large $n$?

answered Aug 28, 2016 at 13:33

26 votes

Publishing papers that became classics before they were submitted

answered Jun 4, 2022 at 10:24

26 votes

How to write a good MathSciNet review?

answered Jan 28, 2021 at 14:50

26 votes

How to picture $\mathbb{C}_p$?

answered Jan 13, 2011 at 14:07

26 votes

unboundedness of number of integral points on elliptic curves?

answered Dec 30, 2010 at 21:51

25 votes

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Distance functions on elliptic curves over number fields

answered Jul 30, 2011 at 3:35

25 votes

Teaching homology via everyday examples

answered Jan 1, 2014 at 21:54

25 votes

Theorems demoted back to conjectures

answered Dec 20, 2016 at 2:51

24 votes

Diophantine equation $3^n-1=2x^2$

answered Sep 20, 2016 at 11:26

24 votes

Why is the Dynamical Mordell-Lang conjecture interesting?

answered Apr 6, 2017 at 0:25

24 votes

Examples of back of envelope calculations leading to good intuition?

answered Nov 28, 2020 at 2:20

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