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History and philosophy of mathematics, biographies of mathematicians, mathematics education, recreational mathematics, communication of mathematics.
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How to find ICM talks?
I am very interested in reading some and skimming through the list of invited talks at the International Congress of Mathematicians. Since the proceedings contain talks supposedly by top experts in ea …
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Plagiarism in the community
My answer is fairly simple, perhaps due to my own ignorance and inexperience, but since you asked:
There is a non-zero risk. But the rewards for talking and sharing with people about math far outweig …
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Every mathematician has only a few tricks
Those of us who are old enough may remember http://www.tricki.org/
Localize + complete, taking a hypersurface section, and using the socle are useful tricks in commutative algebra.
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Webpages for specialized communities
First, my apology for this soft question. My excuse was that I really think this may be of interest to the community. I would understand if it gets closed (I have advocated closing some soft questions …
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The first female algebraist in US/Britain?
Recently I dug up some biographical details of Lindsay Burch, of Hilbert-Burch Theorem fame, whose few papers have had quite an impact on commutative algebra. This made me curious about the first wome …
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Serre's theorem about regularity and homological dimension
ADDED: There is an account written by Buchsbaum (see page 1 and 2 of number 23 here) which described in more details what they wrote in [1]. So the localization problem for regular rings was definitel …
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The first female algebraist in US/Britain?
I followed the reference suggested by KConrad in the comments and found perhaps the answer to Question 1:
Annie MacKinnon, who got her PhD from Cornell in 1894 with the thesis "Concomitant Binary Form …
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A missing paper by Auslander?
I was reading Auslander's talk at the 1962 ICM (beginning of Section 2 on this page). At the end, the reference began:
[1] M. Auslander, Modules over unramified regular local rings, Illinois. J. Math …
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The half-life of a theorem, or Arnold's principle at work
There is the Hilbert-Burch Theorem, which gives structure of Cohen-Macaulay ideals having projective dimension one in a regular or polynomial ring. The named authors published their results about 80 y …
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Webpages for specialized communities
Motivic or $A^1$-homotopy theory.
Affine algebraic geometry.
Cluster Algebra Portal.