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Pace Nielsen
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I'm a mathematician currently working at BYU. I enjoy music from Toad the Wet Sprocket, Tears for Fears, They Might Be Giants, and other bands with "T" in their name. I'm a ring theorist and occasional number theorist, who enjoys talking about religion and family.

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$R$ is isomorphic to $R[X,Y]$, but not to $R[X]$
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Zorn's lemma: old friend or historical relic?
Dec 11, 2022
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Heuristic argument for the Riemann Hypothesis
Aug 31, 2019
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Have there been any updates on Mochizuki's proposed proof of the abc conjecture?
Feb 25, 2016
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On math looking obvious in retrospect
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Iterated logarithms in analytic number theory
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How do we recognize an integer inside the rationals?
Mar 30, 2010
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Slick proof?: A vector space has the same dimension as its dual if and only if it is finite dimensional
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How dangerous are set-size assumptions?
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Defining the standard model of PA so that a space alien could understand
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Multiplicative Euclidean Function for an Euclidean Domain
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Call Magma in Mathematica
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What is the next number on the constructibility sequence? And what is the asymptotic growth?
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