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63 from 25 Aug 2016 to 13 Sep 2026
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2026 4

  1. A beginning for mathematics
  2. The End of Mathematics
  3. ProblemsILike.com
  4. Mathematics in the Library of Babel

2025 1

  1. arXiv in trouble?

2024 1

  1. A short story about prompt engineering

2022 4

  1. An NSERC Proposal
  2. Tiling puzzle: solution
  3. A tiling puzzle
  4. Tensor powers of faithful representations

2021 1

  1. The geometry of the Sylow theorems

2020 9

  1. Some low-hanging fruit
  2. Scissors integration
  3. Grant Materials
  4. Department tea, and revised office hours tomorrow.
  5. WAGON: Lessons learned
  6. Wagon
  7. Reflections on AGONIZE and online conferences
  8. Office Hours
  9. AGONIZE

2019 5

  1. Geometricity and Galois actions on fundamental groups
  2. I'm a Numberphile!
  3. Arithmetic and Representations of Fundamental Groups
  4. Holding the p-adics in the palm of your hand (with thanks to Matt Kukla)
  5. What I've been thinking about recently

2018 5

  1. More Tate curves, more problems
  2. 12 minutes of monodromy
  3. A quick comment on recent RH news
  4. The Boston-Markin Conjecture for Three-Manifolds
  5. Guest Post: Ordinals and Hydras, by Brian Lawrence

2017 11

  1. Donate to MathOverflow
  2. A non-prorepresentable deformation functor
  3. Hire me!
  4. The parity of zero, the primality of two, and other mysteries
  5. Villani for Parliament!
  6. Uniformization over finite fields
  7. Constructive Criticism
  8. The Lost World
  9. Sawin on Severi's Conjecture
  10. Mumford at the Met
  11. C.S. Lewis on Commutative Algebra

2016 22

  1. Graph Theory and \(\mathfrak{sl}_2\)
  2. Jie Liu on projective space
  3. What's wrong with the world?
  4. Biospheres
  5. Rationalia, USA
  6. A "minimal" proof of the fundamental theorem of algebra
  7. Lemmas
  8. Are Shimura Varieties \(K(\pi, 1)\)'s?
  9. Weapons of Math Destruction
  10. The Typographical Equivalent of a Knife Fight
  11. Man After Man
  12. Morita Theory, Tannaka Duality, and Approximate Tannaka Duality
  13. Varieties with infinitely generated automorphism group
  14. Integral House
  15. Taaag
  16. My Hero
  17. \(SL_4/\mu_2\) and a mod \(8\) congruence
  18. More Tautological Classes?
  19. Krashen the party
  20. Families of Curves Wanted
  21. Swag
  22. Starting a blog?