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The purpose of this survey is to explain the open problems in the K-theory of triangulated categories. The survey is intended to be very easy for non-experts to read; I gave it to a couple of fourth-year undergraduates, who had little trouble with it. Perhaps the hardest part is the first section, which discusses the history of the subject. It is hard to give a brief historical account without assuming prior knowledge. The students are advised to skip directly to Sect. 4.2.
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Neeman, A. (2005). The K-Theory of Triangulated Categories. In: Friedlander, E., Grayson, D. (eds) Handbook of K-Theory. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-27855-9_20
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