Timeline for how mathematicians do research? [closed]
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| Jan 20, 2021 at 8:31 | history | closed |
Stanley Yao Xiao Konstantinos Kanakoglou Alexandre Eremenko David Handelman Piotr Achinger |
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| Jan 20, 2021 at 8:25 | answer | added | Phil Harmsworth | timeline score: 2 | |
| Jan 20, 2021 at 8:06 | comment | added | მამუკა ჯიბლაძე | Sorry I cannot formulate it clearly but I have a feeling that this is a very good question with a wrong title. Not vague, just wrong. A suggestion which might also be wrong: make a big list question with the title something like "how would YOU proceed?" | |
| Jan 17, 2021 at 2:44 | comment | added | Will Sawin | Often a good strategy to learn something in math - and I would imagine in physics - is to oscillate back and forth, sometimes quite rapidly, between trying to figure things out yourself and trying to read what others have wrote. Often you will read something, not have any idea what it means, try to prove it yourself, get stuck, then go back, and find that it explains exactly what you need to get unstuck. This is usually more effective than either just reading or just trying things yourself. | |
| Jan 16, 2021 at 3:16 | comment | added | Alexandre Eremenko | You should look for an adviser. It is very unlikely that you can start doing a meaningful research in such subject on your own. | |
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| Jan 15, 2021 at 19:06 | comment | added | Daniel Castro | $\mathcal{N}=2$ and $\mathcal{N}=4$ SYM are extraordinary rich quantum field theories with enormous results in mathematical and theoretical physics. To "derive everything from scratch" in a Bourbaki way I think it's impossible in physics, because she is plagued of heuristic results and bad definitions. I would recommend first to take courses, to read papers and lectures notes, the recent the better. And understand that physics and math work in quite different ways, despite the fact that they have very close ties. | |
| Jan 15, 2021 at 18:26 | comment | added | Andreas Blass | You'll get lots of mutually contradictory answers, because people do research in very different ways. I usually begin (like you) by trying to understand some known material but (unlike you) not trying to re-derive everything myself. Rather, I study what others have done but watch for alternative approaches that might (if I'm lucky) be simpler and lead to additional results. (But I know there are also people who definitely start with a specific problem and attack only that.) | |
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