Tag: proofs
Sawin on Severi's Conjecture
One of my favorite questions is: for which \(g, n, p\) is the moduli space of \(n\)-pointed genus \(g\) curves \(\mathscr{M}_{g,n, \mathbb{F}_p}\) unirational/uniruled? Will Sawin has just posted a beautiful paper on the ArXiv answering…
A "minimal" proof of the fundamental theorem of algebra
When I was in graduate school, I came up with what I think is a nice proof of the fundamental theorem of algebra. At the time, I wrote it up here somewhat formally; I thought it might make a nice blog post, since the formal write-up obsc…