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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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The work of mathematicians outside their professional environment

I almost never do research at my place of work in a University. I teach my classes there, then go home to think. It's almost impossible for me to really think in a public setting.
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When is a paper finished? [closed]

How much truth is there to Chomsky's remark that "mathematicians stop working when things get too difficult"? https://youtu.be/atupfHizJxM?t=453 Is this true in your own work? How do you know you a …