Daniel Litt

Atlanta, GA, USA

https://www.daniellitt.com

I am an Assistant Professor at UGA (2019-)

Email: dlitt.math[at]gmail.com

top accounts reputation activity subscriptions

What do the stable homotopy groups of spheres say about the combinatorics of finite sets?

homotopy-theory co.combinatorics stable-homotopy symmetric-group asked Sep 27, 2011 at 18:18

mathoverflow.net

61 votes

Geometric proof of the Vandermonde determinant?

linear-algebra mg.metric-geometry euclidean-geometry slick-proof lebesgue-measure asked Jun 23, 2010 at 16:01

mathoverflow.net

53 votes

Uniformization over finite fields?

ag.algebraic-geometry algebraic-curves finite-fields asked May 9, 2017 at 19:51

mathoverflow.net

50 votes

What is the etymology of the term "perverse sheaf"?

soft-question terminology reference-request asked Jun 29, 2010 at 21:13

mathoverflow.net

39 votes

What is the shortest program for which halting is unknown?

computer-science computational-complexity reference-request asked Jun 29, 2010 at 18:31

mathoverflow.net

29 votes

Making $\mathbb{Q}$-cohomology integral

ag.algebraic-geometry cohomology brauer-groups asked Oct 22, 2014 at 1:53

mathoverflow.net

25 votes

Strong group ring isomorphisms

gr.group-theory ra.rings-and-algebras reference-request asked Apr 4, 2011 at 21:01

mathoverflow.net

24 votes

Universal homotheties for elliptic curves

ag.algebraic-geometry nt.number-theory elliptic-curves asked Apr 22, 2019 at 16:10

mathoverflow.net

22 votes

Is there a motivic Cauchy integral formula?

ag.algebraic-geometry grothendieck-rings motivic-integration asked Jun 3, 2015 at 22:13

mathoverflow.net

20 votes

Adult Mathematical Literacy

pedagogy statistics asked Apr 22, 2014 at 1:59

matheducators.stackexchange.com

Top Answers

Zagier's one-sentence proof of a theorem of Fermat

mathoverflow.net

How to picture $\mathbb{C}_p$?

mathoverflow.net

Should the formula for the inverse of a 2x2 matrix be obvious?

mathoverflow.net

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

mathoverflow.net

Motivating the Casimir element

mathoverflow.net

The prerequisites for Deligne's Théorie de Hodge I, II, III

mathoverflow.net

is the Hodge conjecture birationally invariant?

mathoverflow.net

Elementary examples of the Weil conjectures

mathoverflow.net

Topos theory reference suitable for undergraduates

mathoverflow.net

Algebraic P vs. NP

mathoverflow.net

Why should curves be two-dimensional?

mathoverflow.net

The generalization of Brouwer's fixed point theorem?

mathoverflow.net

Are there nonisotrivial elliptic curves over $\mathbb{G}_m$?

mathoverflow.net

How does the Frobenius act on the prime-to-$p$ $\pi_1(\mathbb{P}^1_{\overline{\mathbb{F_p}}}\setminus \{a_1,...,a_r\})$?

mathoverflow.net

Most significant results in motivic integration theory?

mathoverflow.net

A set for which it is hard to determine whether or not it is countable.

mathoverflow.net

Can a certain sum converge to 0?

mathoverflow.net

Relation between $BG$ in topology and in algebraic geometry

mathoverflow.net

Special cases of Dirichlet's theorem

mathoverflow.net

Definition of area

mathoverflow.net

Is there a non-projective flat module over a local ring?

mathoverflow.net

why are motives more serious than "naive" motives?

mathoverflow.net

What elementary problems can you solve with schemes?

mathoverflow.net

Cubic polynomial mapping primes to primes

mathoverflow.net

Explicit computations of the étale homotopy type?

mathoverflow.net

Slick ways to make annoying verifications

mathoverflow.net

A finitely generated $\mathbb{Z}$-algebra that is a field has to be finite

mathoverflow.net

Liouville's theorem with your bare hands

mathoverflow.net

Toy Models of Quantum Mechanics

mathoverflow.net

Self-intersection and the normal bundle

mathoverflow.net