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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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Prominent non-mathematical work of mathematicians
Noam D. Elkies, who gave an answer to this question, is himself also an accomplished composer.
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Sustainability of ZBmath unrestricted access
On the legal side, I expect that this will depend quite strongly on what precise kind of open-access policies they will implement. If "open access" means just "no payment to read" (but all reproductio …
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Tools from other disciplines useful to mathematics research?
Since this is now CW, I can just as well add some answers.
As Matt F. mentioned in comments, language skills are often useful in mathematical research (e.g. for accessing literature written in French …
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What are your opinions on Zeidler's QFT books?
In my opinion, Zeidler's books are good for getting a detailed overview of a lot of the different mathematical ideas and concepts undergirding modern efforts in QFT, if one already knows a fair bit of …
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What is the best way to read advanced textbooks in Pure Mathematics (PhD Level)?
If the books have problems sections, the most important thing is to do the problems to the best of your ability -- "tell me, and I forget; show me, and I remember; let me do, and I understand" [not ac …
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Tools from other disciplines useful to mathematics research?
Sorry to post yet another self-answer, but this is completely separate from my other answer.
Polymath-style projects or sites like MathOverflow are tools for mathematical research that could be consid …
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Interpretation of the action in classical mechanics
In a way, the action is really best understood in a quantum-theoretical context, where it naturally emerges from Feynman's principle: essentially, one evaluates matrix elements of the time evolution o …
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Tools from other disciplines useful to mathematics research?
It's not clear how useful this would actually be, but the idea of using "citizen science" (a somewhat sociology-based notion which has been developed into a useful tool for — primarily observation-bas …
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What kid-friendly math riddles are too often spoiled for mathematicians?
Very similar to the shortest path ones already mentioned: A person is on the shore at a perpendicular distance $d_1$ from the shore and wants to rescue a person drowning at a perpendicular distance $d …