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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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Mathematicians whose works were criticized by contemporaries but became widely accepted later
Oliver Heaviside probably deserves some mention here. I think he deserves a lot of the credit for the development of vector calculus.
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Which popular games are the most mathematical?
I would be tempted to include Blackjack in the list of mathematical games. It's supposedly a game of chance, but gambling establishments routinely forbid card counting, because a mathematical approac …