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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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What are some examples of colorful language in serious mathematics papers?

I was always amazed that Clifford Truesdell could get away with a quote like this: Nowadays, when the common student seeks a secure berth by grafting himself upon some modest little professo …
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What is a symplectic form intuitively?

To elaborate on a comment of Steve Huntsman: the symplectic form turns a form $d H$ into a flow $X_H$ with a number of properties, but other types of forms can do a similar job. Indeed, there are a n …
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Is symplectic reduction interesting from a physical point of view?

Inviscid fluid mechanics is one example of a physical system where symplectic reduction actually tells you a great deal, which would be very hard to obtain by other means. The unreduced configuration …
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