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I'm Joshua Zelinsky. Interested primarily in number theory.

I'm also using this profile to note that although Stack Exchange only allows temporary bounties I will give 500 bounty to anyone who can solve dimension four for this variant of Conway's Angel and Devil problem.

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Breakthroughs in mathematics in 2023
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Situations where “naturally occurring” mathematical objects behave very differently from “typical” ones
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Most important results in 2022
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Is it known that the Collatz-like sequence with 7n+1 diverges to infinity starting with 7?
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Why is integer factoring hard while determining whether an integer is prime easy?
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Is every polynomial of the form $2x^{2n} -x^n +1$ irreducible over $\mathbb{Z}$?
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Examples of theorems where numerical bounds on $\pi$ played a role
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Math papers where the only issue is that someone else could've done it but didn't
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Golden ratio in contemporary mathematics
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Unknot recognition - how tangled does it get?
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