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Alexei Averchenko
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112 votes
4 answers
27k views

Why do we define quotient groups for normal subgroups only?

43 votes
3 answers
1k views

How do I find partners for study?

36 votes
3 answers
11k views

Is there a continuous bijection from $\mathbb{R}$ to $\mathbb{R}^2$

30 votes
3 answers
8k views

A ring element with a left inverse but no right inverse?

21 votes
1 answer
721 views

Is there a way to make tangent bundle a monad?

17 votes
3 answers
5k views

A commutative ring $A$ is a field iff $A[x]$ is a PID

15 votes
1 answer
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An example of a derivation at a point on a $C^k$-manifold which is not a tangent vector

15 votes
8 answers
5k views

What's the thing with $\sqrt{-1} = i$

13 votes
1 answer
2k views

Equivalence relation on a proper class

12 votes
1 answer
898 views

Categorification of characteristic polynomial

11 votes
4 answers
2k views

What does "working mathematician" mean?

10 votes
1 answer
514 views

Is $\mathbf{Grp}$ a concrete category?

10 votes
5 answers
4k views

How to prove that $\mathbb{Q} \subset \mathbb{R}$ is not locally compact directly?

9 votes
2 answers
973 views

Can we say that $V \cong V^*$ is not natural?

8 votes
1 answer
1k views

How to check the veracity of arXiv.org papers?

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3 answers
2k views

Introduction to Bourbaki structures, and their relation to category theory

8 votes
2 answers
456 views

What's bad about left $\mathbb{H}$-modules?

8 votes
1 answer
393 views

Finding 'verbally smallest' element of a finitely generated group

8 votes
0 answers
398 views

When is a free and transitive $G$-space homeomorphic to $G$? And when is it (not) a torsor?

8 votes
1 answer
912 views

Do pushouts preserve regular monomorphisms?

7 votes
1 answer
308 views

'Quantum' approach to classical probability

7 votes
1 answer
659 views

Uniqueness of the derivative in locally convex topological vector space

6 votes
1 answer
5k views

What is the dimension of a representation

6 votes
1 answer
1k views

Levi-Civita connection of a left-invariant metric

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0 answers
281 views

An exercise in Serre's Lie algebra book

6 votes
1 answer
912 views

Principal and fiber bundles as defined by Husemoller

5 votes
1 answer
892 views

Construction of the morphism from the zig-zag lemma

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0 answers
482 views

Differential geometry text with categorial flavor

5 votes
4 answers
7k views

Need a hint: prove that $[0, 1]$ and $(0, 1)$ are not homeomorphic

5 votes
3 answers
284 views

Motivating differentiable manifolds