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Will Sawin
New York, NY, USA
http://williamsawin.com
I am an associate professor at Columbia University.
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Top Questions
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A game on Noetherian rings
ac.commutative-algebra
combinatorial-game-theory
asked Apr 6, 2012 at 3:24
mathoverflow.net
58
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Grothendieck's Period Conjecture and the missing p-adic Hodge Theories
nt.number-theory
tannakian-category
p-adic-hodge-theory
asked Mar 15, 2015 at 21:18
mathoverflow.net
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What is the geometry of an undecidable diophantine equation?
ag.algebraic-geometry
nt.number-theory
lo.logic
diophantine-equations
asked Dec 4, 2012 at 18:20
mathoverflow.net
30
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Enriques surfaces over $\mathbb Z$
ag.algebraic-geometry
nt.number-theory
algebraic-surfaces
k3-surfaces
asked Mar 27, 2015 at 22:19
mathoverflow.net
28
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A modern perspective on the relationship between Drinfeld modules and shtukas
ag.algebraic-geometry
nt.number-theory
finite-fields
shimura-varieties
asked Aug 24, 2017 at 16:54
mathoverflow.net
28
votes
How many polynomial Morse functions on the sphere?
gn.general-topology
co.combinatorics
polynomials
asked Mar 29, 2013 at 21:18
mathoverflow.net
27
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Why do the adjoint representations of three exceptional groups have the same first eight moments?
co.combinatorics
rt.representation-theory
lie-groups
lie-algebras
integer-sequences
asked Feb 20, 2016 at 15:10
mathoverflow.net
23
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Successes of machine learning in formal theorem proving
history
automated-theorem-proving
machine-learning
asked Feb 10, 2022 at 21:25
proofassistants.stackexchange.com
23
votes
When (or why) is a six-functor formalism enough?
ag.algebraic-geometry
ct.category-theory
etale-cohomology
sheaf-cohomology
asked Mar 11 at 16:11
mathoverflow.net
22
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What do Hecke eigensheaves actually look like?
ag.algebraic-geometry
nt.number-theory
langlands-conjectures
geometric-rep-theory
geometric-langlands
asked Apr 20, 2016 at 6:58
mathoverflow.net
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Top Answers
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5/8 bound in group theory
mathoverflow.net
106
"The Egg:" Bizarre behavior of the roots of a family of polynomials.
math.stackexchange.com
78
Fibonacci series captures Euler $e=2.718\dots$
mathoverflow.net
76
Why is differential Galois theory not widely used?
mathoverflow.net
69
What is precisely still missing in Connes' approach to RH?
mathoverflow.net
56
Czelakowski's claimed proof of the Twin Prime Conjecture
mathoverflow.net
48
Arithmetic Morse theory?
mathoverflow.net
46
Understanding a quip from Gian-Carlo Rota
mathoverflow.net
46
What is the difference between elementary and non-elementary proofs of the Prime Number Theorem?
mathoverflow.net
41
Why study Higher Sheaf Cohomology?
mathoverflow.net
40
How and when do I learn so much mathematics?
mathoverflow.net
38
Cases where the number field case and the function field (with positive characteristic) are different
mathoverflow.net
37
Modern results that are widely known, yet which at the time were ignored, not accepted or criticized
mathoverflow.net
36
Over which fields are symmetric matrices diagonalizable ?
mathoverflow.net
36
Smooth vs regular vs non-singular
mathoverflow.net
36
Consequences of Kirti Joshi's new preprint about p-adic Teichmüller theory on the validity of IUT and on the ABC conjecture
mathoverflow.net
36
Number of elements of "$\mathrm{SL}_n(\mathbb{F}_p^\times)$" mod $p$
mathoverflow.net
33
Theorems that are essentially impossible to guess by empirical observation
mathoverflow.net
32
Why is game theory formulated in terms of equilibrium instead of winning strategies?
mathoverflow.net
31
Forced conjugation of elements in finite groups
math.stackexchange.com
30
The "stubborn" solutions to sums of three cubes
mathoverflow.net
30
What are possible applications of deep learning to research mathematics?
mathoverflow.net
30
Does $\mathrm{SO}(3)$ act faithfully on a countable set?
mathoverflow.net
30
Pressure to defend the relevance of one's area of mathematics
mathoverflow.net
29
Theorems with many distinct proofs
mathoverflow.net
29
A surprising conjecture about twin primes
mathoverflow.net
29
How to rewrite $7-\sqrt 5$ in root form without a minus sign?
math.stackexchange.com
28
Are the p-adics a direct summand of the direct product of the groups $\mathbb{Z}/p^n\mathbb{Z}$?
mathoverflow.net
28
Gaussian Integer a+2bi as sum of 3 squares
mathoverflow.net
28
How do you check that your mathematical research topic is original?
mathoverflow.net
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