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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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Are there any other examples where "weak" and "strong" are confused in mathematics?

In my experience, most of the time a statement $A$ is said to be "weaker" than $B$, the statement $B$ implies $A$, but the converse does not hold. However, I have sometimes seen "weaker" being used in …
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What are your favorite instructional counterexamples?

For a function $f:\mathbb R^n\to\mathbb R^m$, it is possible for the directional derivatives in all directions to exist at a point without $f$ being continuous there, let alone differentiable. Let $f: …