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Problems where we can't make a canonical choice, solved by looking at all choices at once

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What is a Futaki invariant, what is the intuition behind it, and why is it important?

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What is your favorite isomorphism?

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Which mathematicians have influenced you the most?

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Where is number theory used in the rest of mathematics?

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Why were matrix determinants once such a big deal?

answered Dec 22, 2010 at 6:57

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What's your favorite equation, formula, identity or inequality?

answered Aug 21, 2010 at 18:04

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Proofs that require fundamentally new ways of thinking

answered Dec 11, 2010 at 19:30

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the central issues in complex geometry

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Positive vector bundles

answered Apr 26, 2010 at 22:01

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Tweetable Mathematics

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Why do we need random variables?

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A good book of functional analysis

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What results are immediately generalised to higher dimensions, in light of Schoen and Yau's recent preprint?

answered Jun 8, 2017 at 8:11

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What should be learned in a first serious schemes course?

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Tubular neighborhoods of embedded manifolds

answered Oct 14, 2017 at 14:36

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How do you decide whether a question in abstract algebra is worth studying?

answered Sep 29, 2010 at 23:15

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Atiyah Bott localisation applied to Euler characteristic

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Tweetable Mathematics

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Solutions of the $\overline{\partial}$ equation in the upper half-plane

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Problems where we can't make a canonical choice, solved by looking at all choices at once

What is a Futaki invariant, what is the intuition behind it, and why is it important?

What is your favorite isomorphism?

Which mathematicians have influenced you the most?

Where is number theory used in the rest of mathematics?

Why were matrix determinants once such a big deal?

What's your favorite equation, formula, identity or inequality?

Proofs that require fundamentally new ways of thinking

the central issues in complex geometry

Positive vector bundles

Tweetable Mathematics

Why do we need random variables?

A good book of functional analysis

What results are immediately generalised to higher dimensions, in light of Schoen and Yau's recent preprint?

What should be learned in a first serious schemes course?

Tubular neighborhoods of embedded manifolds

How do you decide whether a question in abstract algebra is worth studying?

Atiyah Bott localisation applied to Euler characteristic

Tweetable Mathematics

Solutions of the $\overline{\partial}$ equation in the upper half-plane