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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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Is Galois theory necessary (in a basic graduate algebra course)?

I am not a graduate student (yet), and don't really know about what first-year grad courses are like, but I don't think that Galois theory should be dropped because "it takes too long to develop", at …
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"In the sequel" - outdated mathematical jargon or precise technical term? [closed]

Possible Duplicate: https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/907/correct-usage-of-the-phrase-in-the-sequel-history-alternatives As a non-native speaker of English, I have been perplexed by the phrase …