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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 Arnold – Serre debate
I was there. Arnol'd is one of my big mathematical heros, but I found the whole thing really sad. It was in French, but my French is decent. Arnol'd began his part with a phrase I've heard him say be …
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Good differential equations text for undergraduates who want to become pure mathematicians
Arnol'd's ODEs.
Hirsch and Smale. As a second best
the `supersized version' of this with
Devaney added as a co-author.
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Parodies of abstruse mathematical writing
In the 80s I attended a conference titled ``Rigid Bodies with Flexible Attachments''. The sad part is that nobody, me included, saw anything strange about that title. It took my wife and her frien …
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Examples of great mathematical writing
Poincaré's `Sur les solutions périodiques et le principe de moindre action'.
in Comptes Rendus des Séances de l'Académie des Sciences, t. 123, p 915-918, 1896
This paper humbled me. It made me reali …
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How can I conclude that I live in a solar system?
I find the parallax effect
parallax
effect especially convincing evidence. Parallax is the shifting of lines of sight
due to translation, eg by waiting half an earth year at which point
theory tel …
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