Daniel McLaury

Norman, OK

http://www.math.uic.edu/people/profile?netid=dmclau4

Graduate student

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How did we know to invent homological algebra?

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Is there an exposition of complex analysis firmly separating the algebra, analysis, and topology?

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Getting the name of combinatorial problems

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Intersection of open affines can be covered by open sets distinguished in bothaffines

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Question about Singular Homology section in Hatcher

algebraic-topology manifolds homology asked Feb 14, 2011 at 0:29

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What is a "subscheme"?

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Is there a clean way to extract the subspaces invariant under a list of matrices?

linear-algebra asked Jun 7, 2012 at 6:21

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When is a flat morphism open?

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Does Hartshorne really not define things like the composition or restriction of morphisms of schemes?

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Take an m x n grid, and in each box pick two opposite corners at random to connect. What can be said about the resulting pattern?

recreational-mathematics percolation asked Dec 3, 2012 at 23:20

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Can a complex number be prime?

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Theorems that impeded progress

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Old books still used

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Were there women who were against giving women the right to vote?

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Why doesn't the circle retract to a point?

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why is the definition of the determinant so weird?

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Hartshorne's weird definition of right derived functors and prop. III 2.6

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Vector bundle as locally free coherent sheaves

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How could an animal "smell" carbon monoxide?

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Wedge sum of circles and the Hawaiian Earring

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Why do students like proof by contradiction?

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If $ f(f(f(x)))=x$, does$ f(x)=x$ necessarily follow?

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What's the relation between topology and graph theory

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Is every Abelian group isomorphic to the external direct product of two cyclic groups?

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Theorems' names that don't credit the right people

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Soft question: Union of infinitely many closed sets

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Meaning of tightness of inequality

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What problems, ideas or questions first got you interested in algebraic geometry?

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Is it known if $\pi + e$ is transcendental over the rational numbers?

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Short story about humanity sending out (radio waves) signals and being answered with a warning

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Derivation of the polarization identities?

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What are the interesting applications of hyperbolic geometry?

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Is it possible to get an example of two matrices

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What's the "opposite" of \limits?

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Probability of two random variables being equal

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Someone who invites other people to another religion

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Does Hartshorne *really* not define things like the composition or restriction of morphisms of schemes?

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Injectivity implies surjectivity

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Slick one-liner to convert a list like "1: 2, 3, 4, 5" to "1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 1.5"

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