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Timeline for Prerequisite for learning GCT

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Feb 7 at 0:48 comment added Ekene E. @JoshuaGrochow Wow, thank you so much for getting back to me so quickly!
Feb 7 at 0:23 comment added Joshua Grochow @EkeneE.: See cstheory.stackexchange.com/a/6972/129 and mathoverflow.net/q/277408/38434. Definitely check out the papers of Ikenmeyer and collaborators. There is also more recent work on border complexity and "de-bordering" as well, but those are mostly less relevant to matrix mult specifically.
Feb 6 at 23:08 comment added Ekene E. Hi Professor @JoshuaGrochow, are there any newer papers that have appeared in the last 10 years on the GCT approach to matrix multiplication?
Oct 23, 2013 at 19:38 history edited Joshua Grochow CC BY-SA 3.0
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Jan 16, 2013 at 5:53 history bounty ended Kaveh
Jan 15, 2013 at 1:41 comment added Vijay D @JoshuaGrochow, this comment could be added to the answer as "On the topological side of things" or any way you see fit.
Jan 14, 2013 at 22:25 comment added Joshua Grochow @syucha: Depending on what you mean by "general theory of topology," say as typically taught in an undergrad topology course, NO. You don't need to know about most of point-set topology. That being said, understanding the basics of topology is useful (and necessary-ish) for understanding algebraic geometry (cf. the Zariski topology) and differential geometry (for which you really just need topology of manifolds, not general point-set topology). Deeper things from topology, like sheaves and vector bundles, are useful for some of the deeper stuff in GCT.
Jan 14, 2013 at 22:22 history edited Joshua Grochow CC BY-SA 3.0
Made links. Added a few refs and clarified a few things.
Jan 10, 2013 at 17:45 history edited Suresh Venkat CC BY-SA 3.0
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Jan 10, 2013 at 17:43 comment added Suresh Venkat Josh is our local expert :)
Jan 10, 2013 at 9:06 comment added Vijay D I feel like all of cstheory unanimously deferred to you on this one. Great answer. If you marked the "If you want" parts more prominently, the structure of your answer would be more visually evident.
Jan 10, 2013 at 6:41 comment added syucha Is the general theory of topology needed ?
Jan 10, 2013 at 6:34 comment added Kaveh +1 ps: it would be great if you can also add links to the papers and books in your answer.
Jan 10, 2013 at 6:24 history edited Kaveh CC BY-SA 3.0
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Jan 10, 2013 at 5:28 history answered Joshua Grochow CC BY-SA 3.0