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For questions about careers and jobs in mathematics (inside and outside academia)
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How to find a topic to do research with as a Post-Doc?
When I was on this stage
of my career, I found surveys with lists of unsolved problems in my field, and tried to solve them. …
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Adapting arguments and plagiarism
Just do what your adviser tells you to do and don't worry. Adviser has to approve your thesis before you defend or publish it. With his/her approval who can blame you in plagiarism from your adviser? …
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Is it possible to have a research career while checking the proof of every theorem that you ...
Possible or not, this should be a goal:-) Let me put it slightly differently: you should understand every result that you use. First of all, a theorem that you use
can be wrong. So whenever you rely y …
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What areas of pure mathematics research are best for a post-PhD transition to industry?
Probability. A strong background in probability will permit to qualify for jobs in
statistics and financial math. See AMS Notices where a lot of statistics about the
employment of recent PhD is publi …
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Is it possible to get another math PhD
I suppose that if you want a second PhD in Math you have to hide the fact that you already have one.
But I do not recommend you to do this. What will you do with your existing publications ?
In my un …
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When a journal doesn't give your work a fair chance
Everything you describe happened to me and to my colleagues as authors.
On your question "is it reasonable to demand" my answer is "no". I've never heard of the case when the author could change the d …
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The non-traveling mathematician problem
Even if you do not travel at all, this is not going to hurt
seriously your research career. People travel a lot because they like to travel:-) …
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Should one attack hard problems?
As I understand, you are only beginning your graduate studies.
At this stage you should get a problem from your adviser, a problem that you are likely to solve.
If you want to become a professional ma …
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When should a supervisor be a co-author?
The meaning of your question depends very much on who YOU are: a student or a supervisor:-)
My guess is that you are a student.
In which case, my advise would be: just do what your supervisor suggest …
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When should a supervisor be a co-author?
First of all, this question must be decided by the adviser, not by the student.
The student must accept any decision if his/her adviser.
Most advisers that I know (mathematicians) will not co-author …
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Publishing a bad paper?
I agree with what Rodrigo says: you don't have to include a paper which you do not like in your CV.
In general, people are usually evaluated by their best papers not by the worst.
From my own experi …
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Publishing a Simple Paper as an Undergraduate
To those journals already mentioned, I can add College Mathematical Journal published by MAA. But my advise is to ask those professors who approved your result. They must be able to give a good recomm …
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Etiquette of publishing folklore results
Include it in your paper, and write clearly that on your opinion this is a known result but you could not find a reference. You can never be sure that this result has not been published by someone, an …
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What are journal rankings that employers look at?
Unfortunately, this practice spreads. Especially in the universities outside of USA. The databases most commonly used are ISI (Inst. of Sci. Information) Journal Citation reports and Scopus. Both of t …
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Collaboration or acknowledgment?
No general rule can be established here. It is by mutual agreement of all involved parties that such things are usually decided. If you decide to write a paper where you use the results of
a discussio …