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Ian Agol
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I'm a professor at UC Berkeley working predominantly in the field of low-dimensional topology.

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Why is BG infinite dimensional for G finite ?
Nov 1, 2011
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Which math paper maximizes the ratio (importance)/(length)?
Apr 14, 2015
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Thurston's 24 questions: All settled?
Mar 25, 2017
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Not especially famous, long-open problems which anyone can understand
Jun 27, 2012
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Question on the irrationality of $e$
Apr 14, 2015
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Are there "principal" bundles $S^1 \to S^3 \to S^2$ other then Hopf's? (They would be necessarily not locally trivial)
Aug 23, 2016
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Parallelizability of the Milnor's exotic spheres in dimension 7
Mar 11, 2011
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Is differential topology a dying field?
May 30, 2019
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Proofs without words
Dec 15, 2009
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Can a subset of the plane have nontrivial $H_2$ or $\pi_2$?
Dec 9, 2014
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Minimal number of moves to construct the challenges (circle packings and regular polygons) in Ancient Greek Geometry?
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Purpose of cusps
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How to construct a genus 2 surface from 8-gon?
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Dehn presentation proof reference request
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Are there examples of different knots with identical Jones polynomials and different Seifert Genus?