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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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How does your productivity change after receiving prizes?
Prizes and Productivity: How Winning the Fields Medal Affects Scientific Output (2013)
Knowledge generation is key to economic growth, and scientific prizes
are designed to encourage it. But how …
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Example of a Mathematician/Physicist whose Other Publications during their PhD eclipsed thei...
Anatoly Karatsuba discovered the
Karatsuba algorithm in 1960, and reported it to Kolmogorov who published it under his (Karatsuba's) name without his knowledge. It seems fair to say that this first e …
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Does there exist a "citation distance" calculator for papers or authors?
If you have access to the Web of Science you could use the CitNetExplorer tool to create a citation network (documentation). This tool is used quite extensively, but I have not used it myself.
The arX …
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What happened to the Salem prize?
I inquired with the IAS. The Salem prize has not been discontinued, but the pandemic has interrupted operations. It should reopen for nominations later this year.
You can email me for the full messag …
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Supervision numbers in pure mathematics
To establish a base line, you could look into Some Patterns of PhDs in Mathematics Awarded Annually by Institutions of Higher Education in the United States over the Last Two Decades. This lists for e …
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Is a come back to mathematical research possible?
Alice Roth became a mathematics teacher after her Ph.D. in 1938, and only returned to research after her retirement in 1971. Her 1976 paper on the "fusion lemma" is said to have "influenced a new gene …
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Is there an RSS reader for mathematicians?
an email-based alternative to Google Reader that some are quite happy with, and which renders LaTeX, is Blogtrottr ---
http://robert.orzanna.de/2013/04/google-reader-shutdown-blogtrottr-being.html
H …
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How can a mathematician handle the pressure to discover something new?
The theoretical physicist Richard Feynman was in a similar state of mind, he referred to it as a "burn-out" feeling: Now that he had landed the University professorship he had strived for, he felt the …
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Mathematics equivalent of Feynman's Lectures in Physics?
since you ask specifically about "the meaning of things", this might be what you are looking for:
What Is Mathematics? An Elementary Approach to Ideas and Methods
For more than two thousand years …
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If mathematics is logic and intuition, then
This award winning web site Panorama - applications of mathematics by Philipp Legner is very well done and could be the type of resource you would direct someone to who asks "what is the use of mathem …
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Typed Values in Formulas
Two ways to indicate a rescaling of the weight of the edges of a graph, by an additive constant or by an arbitrary multiple.
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Abel hidden by Cauchy?
The story is described on page 320 of E.T Bell's Men of Mathematics. The work is Abel's Memoir on a general property of a very extensive class of transcendental functions, presented to the Paris Acade …
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What are some examples of mathematicians who had an unconventional education?
my favorite: George Green: his entire formal education consisted of one year of school at age 8; he started to work as a baker at age 5 (!), and devoted much of his working life to the operation of a …
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Origins of Axiomatic Reasoning
You'll find an extensive overview of early uses of the axiomatic method in Axiomatic Philosophy, by Pritam Sen (1996). One of the earliest sources is the Upanishad of the Hindu faith, written in the p …
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Explanations simple enough that non-mathematical audiences can understand
Pythagoras theorem.
Albert Einstein wrote about two pivotal moments in his childhood. The first involved a compass that his father showed him when he was four or five. The second involved his early ex …