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Bill Thurston
  • Member for 13 years, 6 months
  • Cornell University
582 votes

What's a mathematician to do?

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Is there an underlying explanation for the magical powers of the Schwarzian derivative?

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Lecture notes by Thurston on tiling

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Are there any very hard unknots?

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Volumes of n-balls: what is so special about n=5?

61 votes

When can a connection Induce a Riemannian metric for which it is the Levi-Civita connection?

58 votes

Computing homotopies

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Nash embedding theorem for 2D manifolds

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Riemannian surfaces with an explicit distance function?

48 votes

Invertible matrices of natural numbers are permutations... why?

45 votes

Riemann mapping theorem for homeomorphisms

39 votes
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Maneuvering with limited moves on $S^2$

38 votes

When does iterating $z \mapsto z^2 + c$ have an exact solution?

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Can we add two matrices by performing an operation on their eigenvalues & eigenvectors?

34 votes
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Trapped rays bouncing between two convex bodies

34 votes

Is there a simple proof that a group of linear growth is quasi-isometric to Z?

33 votes
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What upper bounds are known for the diameter of the minimum spanning tree of $n$ uniformly random points in $[0,1]^2$?

33 votes

Transpositions of order three

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Finite groups with elements of the same order

31 votes

Is the sphere the only surface with circular projections? Or: Can we deduce a spherical Earth by observing that its shadows on the Moon are circular?

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Why are there no wild arcs in the plane?

30 votes
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Fair but irregular polyhedral dice

28 votes

Many flat totally geodesic surfaces ⇒ flat?

27 votes

Minimal polynomial with a given maximum in the unit interval

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complement of a totally disconnected closed set in the plane

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Does Riemann map depend continuously on the domain?

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transformation properties of divergence (of a vector field)

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Totally geodesic surfaces in fibered 3-manifolds

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Is there a Poincare-Hopf Index theorem for non compact manifolds?

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Does the amenability problem for Thompson's group $F$ predate 1980?

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