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I am a lecturer in pure mathematics at the University of Glasgow. My research areas include group theory, topology, and dynamical systems.

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Perfectly centered break of a perfectly aligned pool ball rack
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Are there any "related rates" calculus problems that don't feel contrived?
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Are the primes normally distributed? Or is this the Riemann hypothesis?
Apr 13, 2014
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Function with range equal to whole reals on every open set
Jul 16, 2010
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An explicit example of a finitely presented group containing a subgroup isomorphic to $(\mathbb Q,+)$.
May 6, 2020
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Not especially famous, long-open problems which anyone can understand
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Is there an analog of Sperner's lemma for the Hopf invariant?
Jan 24, 2014
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Can non-homeomorphic spaces have homeomorphic squares?
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A question about connected subsets of $[0,1]^2$
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Existence of a strange measure
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Why is having multiple college majors seen as a bad thing when applying to graduate school?
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