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Questions that are about research in mathematics, or about the job of a research mathematician, without being mathematical problems or statements in the strictest sense. Do not use this tag for easy or supposedly easy mathematical questions.

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Math overdose? Professional advise how to cope with it [closed]

I'm a PhD student, currently working on my Thesis. Over the years I have many time encountered a problem. Maybe professional mathematicians know what I'm talking about? When I study a math topic, freq …
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The meaning of this mysterious remark in Littlewood's Miscellany

In the well known book by Littlewood (Mathematician's Miscellany, or the later edition called Littlewood's Miscellany) there is a remark made in the chapter 'A Mathematical education', the meaning of …
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Does Arnold say that Hardy is responsible for Ramanujan's untimely death? [closed]

Vladimir Arnold in his book Yesterday and Long Ago, Springer (2007) writes: When I resided at Cambridge as a senior fellow of Trinity College, Indian colleagues told me some details of Ramanujan …
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Why does Arnold put Hardy on the same level as Bourbakists?

In the preface to his book "Lectures On Partial Differential Equations" Arnold writes: The effort to destroy this unnecessary scholastic pseudoscience is a natural and proper reaction of society) to …
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What aspects of math olympiads do you find still useful in your math research?

I was rereading the book Littlewood's Miscellany and this passage struck me: It used to be said that the discipline in 'manipulative skill' bore later fruit in original work. I should deny this …
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Is the field of q-series 'dead'? [closed]

I had a discussion with my advisor about what am I interested as my future research direction and I said it is special functions and q-series. He laughed and said that the topic is essentially dead an …