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Changes forced by the pandemic
The Covid-19 pandemic has changed our work-lives in ways few of us could have anticipated. These exceptional circumstances have forced each one of us and each one of our institutions to adapt, ...
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How professional mathematicians deal with discouragement? [closed]
All professional mathematicians feel discouraged occasionally due to some issue.
My question is:
How do professional mathematicians deal with discouragement?
In this link , Andrew Wiles say ...
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Mathematicians with both “very abstract” and “very applied” achievements
Gödel had a cosmological model. Hamel, primarily a mechanician, gave any vector space a basis. Plücker, best known for line geometry, spent years on magnetism. What other mathematicians had so distant ...
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What are some very important papers published in non-top journals?
There has already been a question about important papers that were initially rejected. Many of the answers were very interesting. The question is here.
My concern in this question is slightly ...
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Math Annotate Platform?
Suppose most mathematical research papers were freely accessible online.
Suppose a well-organized platform existed where responsible users could write comments on any paper (linking to its doi, ...
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Discovering and selecting conferences
Last summer, there were several excellent summer schools in my field that I learned of only after the application date. The events I did attend were chosen without too much care. I'm planning for the ...
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Least collaborative mathematician
The recent question about the most prolific collaboration interested me. How about this question in the opposite direction, then: can anyone beat, amongst contemporary mathematicians, the example of ...