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Ryan Budney
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I am a professor of mathematics at the University of Victoria, in Canada.

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Why can you turn clothing right-side-out?
Aug 19, 2010
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Why can you turn clothing right-side-out?
Aug 22, 2010
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How to study math to really understand it and have a healthy lifestyle with free time?
Jun 11, 2011
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Inverse of the sum of matrices
Jan 16, 2011
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How is $\mathbb{C}$ different than $\mathbb{R}^2$?
Sep 21, 2010
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What's more general than category theory?
Sep 3, 2010
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What's the point of studying topological (as opposed to smooth, PL, or PDiff) manifolds?
Feb 4, 2011
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Poincare Duality Reference
Dec 16, 2010
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Find the average of $\sin^{100} (x)$ in 5 minutes?
Mar 2, 2011
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Why do statements which appear elementary have complicated proofs?
Sep 25, 2010
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What is geometric topology?
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Should community growth be encouraged?
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Are questions about teaching Math to Secondary Level students fair game?
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Can every manifold be given an analytic structure?
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Computational complexity of computing homotopy groups of spheres
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Geometric interpretation of characteristic polynomial
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The view from inside of a mirrored tetrahedron
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Teaching proofs in the era of Google