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Igor Rivin

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http://math.temple.edu/~rivin

Professor of Mathematics at Temple University. Regius Professor of Mathematics at St Andrews starting Fall 2015. Twitter feed at @regiusmath

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Why do roots of polynomials tend to have absolute value close to 1?
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Mathematical "urban legends"
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Mathematical "urban legends"
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The half-life of a theorem, or Arnold's principle at work
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Mathematical "urban legends"
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Getting nervous refereeing a paper
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Could the Riemann zeta function be a solution for a known differential equation?
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To which extent can one recover a manifold from its group of homeomorphisms
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Understanding differences between Maple and Mathematica in examples picked by Maplesoft
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Unusual symmetries of the Cayley-Menger determinant for the volume of tetrahedra
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What are some very important papers published in non-top journals?
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Can every Lie group be realized as the full isometry group of a Riemannian manifold?
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Is this 1974 claim still valid?
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If matrix A is invertible, is it diagonalizable as well?
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Why should I care about the Jones polynomial?
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Thurston's "tinker toy" problem
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Existence of Rational Orthogonal Matrices
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How are eigenvalues and eigenvectors affected by adding the all-ones matrix?
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Which closed orientable $4$-dimensional manifolds cannot be embedded in $6$-space?
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Which affiliation to use when publishing, when invited professor at second university
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Conjugacy classes of $\mathrm{SL}_2(\mathbb{Z})$
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A manifold is a homotopy type and _what_ extra structure?
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Approachable French Masters
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Web interface for GAP (or other computer algebra system dealing with finite groups)?
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Questions on J. F. Nash's answer about his errors in the proof of embedding theorem
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Most manifolds are hyperbolic?
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Random links and $3$-manifolds
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Why is there a unique hyperbolic simplex of largest area?
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Are most Kähler manifolds non-projective?
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Computer Science for Mathematicians
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