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Harry Altman
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Currently studying the complexity of natural numbers in various simple computational models, and also well partial orders and some other silly things with ordinals. And also some scattered other stuff. See website for more.

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What are the most attractive Turing undecidable problems in mathematics?
Apr 28, 2010
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Examples of common false beliefs in mathematics
May 14, 2016
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Examples of seemingly elementary problems that are hard to solve?
Sep 18, 2011
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Not especially famous, long-open problems which anyone can understand
Jul 26, 2012
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What if homotopy were expanded to allow any connected space instead of $[0,1]$?
May 2, 2015
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Are Minkowski sums of upward closed "convex" sets in $\mathbb{N}^k$ still "convex"? (WAS: Comparing mana costs in Magic: The Gathering)
Oct 18, 2017
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Axiomatic definition of integers
May 1, 2010
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Surreal exponentiation -- are the varying definitions equivalent? If not, is there agreement on which ones are better?
Feb 19, 2012
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What is the fairest order for stage-striking (and is it the Thue-Morse sequence)?
Nov 21, 2018
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Examples of common false beliefs in mathematics
Feb 6, 2011
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Continuity of the roots of a polynomial in terms of its coefficients
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Are all $p$-adic number systems the same?
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How to show $\ell^2_p$ not isometric to $\ell^2_{p'}$ unless $p\in\{1,2,\infty\}$?
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Basic counterexample re: preimages of ideals
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Is multiplication of games that are equivalent to numbers well-defined?