Andy Putman

Notre Dame, IN

http://www.nd.edu/~andyp/

professor at notre dame

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Top specialized journals

journals publishing big-list soft-question asked Oct 31, 2009 at 5:13

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Fields of mathematics that were dormant for a long time until someone revitalized them

big-list ho.history-overview asked May 11, 2010 at 16:25

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Fundamental groups of noncompact surfaces

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56 votes

Atiyah-Singer index theorem

ca.analysis-and-odes gn.general-topology asked Oct 19, 2009 at 5:23

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49 votes

Triangulating surfaces

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45 votes

Thurston's senior thesis at New College

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Problem with qedhere

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Generators for congruence subgroups of SL_2

gr.group-theory linear-algebra asked Oct 27, 2009 at 3:36

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23 votes

Textbook for undergraduate course in geometry

ag.algebraic-geometry dg.differential-geometry mg.metric-geometry teaching textbook-recommendation asked Nov 1, 2012 at 3:07

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23 votes

Is the Steinberg representation always irreducible?

rt.representation-theory buildings asked Jan 13, 2016 at 21:15

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Mathematics Stack Exchange as an indicator for academic career

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Examples of common false beliefs in mathematics

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Which mathematicians have influenced you the most?

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What are fixed points of the Fourier Transform

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The "derived drift" is pretty unsatisfying and dangerous to category theory (or at least, to me)

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How do I fix someone's published error?

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Is there a Whitney Embedding Theorem for non-smooth manifolds?

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Is it the referee's responsibility to verify results from arXiv preprints used in the refereed paper?

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Introductory text on geometric group theory?

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Best online mathematics videos?

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Which are the best mathematics journals, and what are the differences between them?

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Sources for BibTeX entries

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Who first dubbed them "expander graphs"?

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Forgetting what you have published

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When is a Homology Class Represented by a Submanifold?

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How to correspond with academics as a young researcher in high school?

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Which math paper maximizes the ratio (importance)/(length)?

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Liouville's theorem with your bare hands

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What are some correct results discovered with incorrect (or no) proofs?

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Homeomorphisms and disjoint unions

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What do I do if a professor at a foreign university doesn't respond to my emails?

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What's a non-abelian totally ordered group?

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Beginner's questions on the post-doc application

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Which manifolds are homeomorphic to simplicial complexes?

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Conformal maps in higher dimensions

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Will not collaborating hurt the career of a math postdoc?

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Great mathematical figures and/or diagrams?

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Are the mapping class groups of manifolds finitely presentable?

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Computations in group cohomology

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Why is the fundamental group of a compact Riemann surface not free ?

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