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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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Jokes in the sense of Littlewood: examples?

The journal of unpublishable mathematics, which seems to be down at the moment is one of my favourites
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Examples of great mathematical writing

Toric Varieties, about to be published by Cox, Little and Schenck is an unmeasurable amount of joy. It is impossible to get tired of it. Everything is well-bounded and it made me learn as much Algebra …
9 votes

How to resolve a disagreement about a mathematical proof?

I would add something else. Talk to someone who has used this result before. Hopefully there will be someone and he/she will have read the proof. I think it is easy to find who has referenced a paper …
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Best online mathematics videos?

All the talks of Atiyah 80+
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Best online mathematics videos?

David Cox's lectures in toric varieties at MSRI Something really good to end the evening with :)
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Minimal resolution of Log del Pezzo surfaces

Suppose $X$ is a log del pezzo projective surface of index $l$. As far as I understand it will have a finite number of singular points all of which can be resolved by sucessive blow-ups. Let $E_i$ be …
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Graph of dependencies from a Latex file [closed]

This question has been "manually migrated" to TeX-SX: https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/40200/86 Apologies if the question is not very appropiate for Mathoverflow. It seems to me more appropiate here …
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Intuitive pictures in characteristic p

This is a tough one, but does anyone know of any images that recall characteristic p geometry (over algebraically closed fields) in some sense? It is not enough if it is some picture that can be also …
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