Timeline for How do you find out the latest news in fields other than your own?
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| Jun 5, 2010 at 3:43 | vote | accept | Timothy Chow | ||
| Jun 3, 2010 at 15:23 | comment | added | Victor Protsak | Yes, mathematics is just too big! I think that the AMS conferences, Bulletin and Notices are as close to a centralized and balanced view as you can get. Bloggers and indeed writers of featured reviews are doing the sifting according to their interests (and expertise), not yours. | |
| Jun 3, 2010 at 14:39 | comment | added | Timothy Chow | I do subscribe to the ArXiv, but I find that the volume of just the items in my field(s) of interest borders on overwhelming. The same goes for blogs and journals. I can maybe follow one or two blogs, but to find out what's happening in all of mathematics I'd have to sift through dozens of blogs in dozens of fields, and that is just not feasible for me. Perhaps this is just a fact of life and there is no better solution, but I was hoping that there would be something like Featured Reviews or slashdot out there---someone who had already done the sifting, for the benefit of the community. | |
| Jun 3, 2010 at 7:07 | comment | added | Qiaochu Yuan | Following the arXiv isn't particularly difficult; you can use an aggregator like Google reader and pick and choose which subjects you want to subscribe to. (Unfortunately, you can't stop papers in multiple subjects from being listed multiple times.) | |
| Jun 3, 2010 at 6:42 | history | answered | Victor Protsak | CC BY-SA 2.5 |