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Daniel Briggs
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At UMass Amherst in the Ph.D. program in math.

Currently taking:
Analysis (Measure theory & integration)
Geometry (Theory of manifolds)
Modular Forms

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Why did early Indo-European languages seem to be morphologically complex?
Sep 20, 2011
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What are the historical origins of terms for north, south, east and west?
Apr 29, 2012
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Monogenesis vs. Polygenesis
Oct 4, 2011
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Why does speech speed seem to vary between different languages?
Sep 30, 2011
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Which language was regularly written in the most alphabets?
May 6, 2012
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Are there languages that distinguish between inclusive and exclusive "or"?
Nov 3, 2011
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Are there any languages that mark nouns as mass?
Sep 26, 2011
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What is the origin of non-natural grammatical genders in Indo-European languages?
Sep 26, 2011
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L1 acquisition of morphology in heavily inflected languages
Nov 17, 2014
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Is the very concept of the phoneme disputed?
Sep 18, 2011
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What is the simplest, most elementary proof that a particular number is transcendental?
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The infinite X in Conway's game of life
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Euclid / Hilbert: "Two lines parallel to a third line are parallel to each other."
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"Essential" open sets for sieves in topology as Grothendieck topology and T1 axiom
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Homotopy Transfer Theorem for Differential Graded Associative Algebras

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