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For questions in Mathematics Education as a scientific discipline. For more hands-on questions on teaching Mathematics, please use the tag teaching. There is also a Stack Exchange community http://matheducators.stackexchange.com/

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Lunch seminars for PhD students

At Warwick Mathematics Institute in the UK they do indeed have such a seminar, called the Postgraduate Seminar. It's organised by PhD students for PhD students only and the talks are given by PhD stu …
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Are hypergeometric series not taught often at universities nowadays, and if so, why?

Hypergeometric functions and series are maybe not taught in pure mathematics courses but they are often taught in more advanced physics courses. If you see the appendices of some of the books on basic …
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PhD dissertations that solve an established open problem

Does Scholze's PhD thesis count, as if I remember rightly he applied perfectoid spaces to prove some important special case of Deligne's weight-monodromy conjecture? (Not an expert, correct me if I'm …
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How to explain to an engineer what algebraic geometry is?

I would just say that very roughly speaking it's a subject where you are doing geometry and thinking about geometry, but you write about it formally like it is algebra and you use algebra (which can b …