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I am a former postdoc in Number Theory at Imperial College London, currently looking for a job outside academia. My interests are rational points on varieties, in particular K3 surfaces and abelian varieties.

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Current ways of thinking in the History of Mathematics
Sep 26, 2015
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What's the origin of the concept of the five senses?
May 8, 2017
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When $1$ wasn't really a number in Greece
Sep 20, 2017
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Why does Newton claim : "Plato is my friend — Aristotle is my friend — but my greatest friend is truth."?
Apr 29, 2018
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Examples of abstract proofs that turned out to be false
Sep 22, 2017
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Looking for an online version of Archimedes' "The Method" (in Greek)
Sep 8, 2017
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Looking for an online version of Archimedes' "The Method" (in Greek)
Jan 23, 2017
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Analysis vs Synthesis in Greek Mathematics
Feb 1, 2017
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The exponent of Ш of $y^2 = x^3 + px$, where $p$ is a Fermat prime
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Daunting papers/books and how to finally read them
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Is the Hasse principle a birational invariant?
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$P(x)=P(y)$ has infinitely many integer solutions
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Results that are widely accepted but no proof has appeared