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Will Sawin
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I am an associate professor at Columbia University.

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A game on Noetherian rings
Apr 6, 2012
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5/8 bound in group theory
Mar 20, 2012
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Fibonacci series captures Euler $e=2.718\dots$
Apr 12, 2017
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Why is differential Galois theory not widely used?
Apr 3, 2015
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What is precisely still missing in Connes' approach to RH?
Jan 11, 2017
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Grothendieck's Period Conjecture and the missing p-adic Hodge Theories
Mar 15, 2015
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What is the geometry of an undecidable diophantine equation?
Dec 4, 2012
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Czelakowski's claimed proof of the Twin Prime Conjecture
Oct 26, 2022
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Arithmetic Morse theory?
Feb 27, 2017
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Understanding a quip from Gian-Carlo Rota
May 23, 2017
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Have any MO-hard problems ascended to "real" open problems in their fields?
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Revising the help page on "What topics can I ask around here?"
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"The Egg:" Bizarre behavior of the roots of a family of polynomials.
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Forced conjugation of elements in finite groups
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How to rewrite $7-\sqrt 5$ in root form without a minus sign?
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Successes of machine learning in formal theorem proving
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Non-trivial difference(s) between Computer Algebra System and Proof Assistant

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