Schanuel's conjecture, the existential closedness problem and the Zilber—Pink conjecture are unsolved questions that have seen a lot input coming from different areas of mathematics (especially in recent years), and it can be difficult to figure out where to begin learning about them. There are many resources available, but they can be hard to find if one doesn't know where to look. So here I want to point out some of them to help anyone who is interested.
Resources with a focus on motivation rather than detail. Easy to read.
Check out Vahagn Aslanyan's blog.
What is Existential Closedness?
A description of the existential closedness problem for exponentiation intended for general maths enthusiasts.
Survey works describing the three problems, and including relevant references to current methods and results.
Lecture notes for the Arizona Winter School 2023 on Unlikely Intersections, written by Laura De Marco, Jonathan Pila, Thomas Scanlon, and Jacob Tsimerman.
Three conjectures in number theory
Detailed survey article describing the problems and the partial results for the case of exponentiation.
Unlikely Intersections in Shimura Varieties and Beyond: A Survey
written by Christopher Daw.
Aimed at graduate students and researchers.
Some Problems of Unlikely Intersections in Arithmetic and Geometry
Umberto Zannier with appendices by David Masser, Annals of Mathematics Studies 181, Princeton University Press, Princeton, 2012.
O-minimality and Diophantine Geometry
Gareth Jones and Alex Wilkie (eds), LMS Lecture Notes Series 421, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2015.
Around the Zilber—Pink Conjecture
Philipp Habegger, Gaël Rémond, Thomas Scanlon, Emmanuel Ullmo and Andrei Yafaev (eds), Course Notes CIRM, Panorama et Synthèses 52, Société Mathématique de France, Paris, 2017.
Point Counting and the Zilber—Pink Conjecture
Jonathan Pila, Cambridge Tracts in Mathematics 228, Cambridge University Press, 2022.