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Reza Rezazadegan
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In the light of the recent "proof wars" in symplectic geometry (in which some groups contend that proofs given by some other groups are wrong, see here, here and here) I thought it would be good to have some basic guidelines (or best practices) for writing proofs in math papers as a community wiki on MO. This would be specially useful for the PhD students.

I don't just mean individual proofs but also the whole interconnected web of arguments in a paper. I think this is important as modern math papers tend to be long and highly complex and therefore difficult to referee.

In the light of the recent "proof wars" in symplectic geometry (in which some groups contend that proofs given by some other groups are wrong) I thought it would be good to have some basic guidelines (or best practices) for writing proofs in math papers as a community wiki on MO. This would be specially useful for the PhD students.

I don't just mean individual proofs but also the whole interconnected web of arguments in a paper. I think this is important as modern math papers tend to be long and highly complex and therefore difficult to referee.

In the light of the recent "proof wars" in symplectic geometry (in which some groups contend that proofs given by some other groups are wrong, see here, here and here) I thought it would be good to have some basic guidelines (or best practices) for writing proofs in math papers as a community wiki on MO. This would be specially useful for the PhD students.

I don't just mean individual proofs but also the whole interconnected web of arguments in a paper. I think this is important as modern math papers tend to be long and highly complex and therefore difficult to referee.

Post Closed as "Needs more focus" by Steven Gubkin, Andy Putman, Lucia, Neil Strickland, Deane Yang
Post Made Community Wiki by Todd Trimble
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Reza Rezazadegan
Reza Rezazadegan
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In the light of the recent "proof wars" in symplectic geometry (in which some groups contend that proofs given by some other groups are wrong) I thought it would be good to have some basic guidelines (or best practices) for writing proofs in math papers as a community wiki on MO. This would be specially useful for the newcomersPhD students.

I don't just mean individual proofs but also the whole interconnected web of arguments in a paper. I think this is important as modern math papers tend to be long and highly complex and therefore difficult to referee.

In the light of the recent "proof wars" in symplectic geometry (in which some groups contend that proofs given by some other groups are wrong) I thought it would be good to have some basic guidelines (or best practices) for writing proofs in math papers as a community wiki on MO. This would be specially useful for the newcomers.

I don't just mean individual proofs but also the whole interconnected web of arguments in a paper. I think this is important as modern math papers tend to be long and highly complex and therefore difficult to referee.

In the light of the recent "proof wars" in symplectic geometry (in which some groups contend that proofs given by some other groups are wrong) I thought it would be good to have some basic guidelines (or best practices) for writing proofs in math papers as a community wiki on MO. This would be specially useful for the PhD students.

I don't just mean individual proofs but also the whole interconnected web of arguments in a paper. I think this is important as modern math papers tend to be long and highly complex and therefore difficult to referee.

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Reza Rezazadegan
Reza Rezazadegan
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  • 6
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Guidelines for writing proofs in math papers

In the light of the recent "proof wars" in symplectic geometry (in which some groups contend that proofs given by some other groups are wrong) I thought it would be good to have some basic guidelines (or best practices) for writing proofs in math papers as a community wiki on MO. This would be specially useful for the newcomers.

I don't just mean individual proofs but also the whole interconnected web of arguments in a paper. I think this is important as modern math papers tend to be long and highly complex and therefore difficult to referee.