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Ryan Budney
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I am a professor of mathematics at the University of Victoria, in BC Canada.

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Can every manifold be given an analytic structure?
Dec 13, 2009
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Geometric interpretation of characteristic polynomial
Jul 27, 2010
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Computational complexity of computing homotopy groups of spheres
Jul 8, 2010
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The view from inside of a mirrored tetrahedron
Nov 21, 2014
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Teaching proofs in the era of Google
Oct 9, 2010
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Depressed graduate student.
Jan 2, 2010
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Torsion in homology or fundamental group of subsets of Euclidean 3-space
Nov 7, 2009
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Has anyone thought about creating a formal proof wiki with verifier?
Oct 5, 2010
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Theoretical physics: Why not just $\mathbb{R}^4$?
Jul 5, 2010
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The half-life of a theorem, or Arnold's principle at work
May 26, 2011
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When asking a question on MO it seems there's far too little information on what MO is about
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Why has my question on Aristotelian Spaces been closed for being 'insufficiently focused'?
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Why does Mathoverflow not like opinions?
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Inverse of the sum of matrices
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What's more general than category theory?

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