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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 discrete mathematics mainstream?

I often think of "the set of mainstream topics" as approximated by the large (strong) component in the directed graph of citations. In other words, mathematical work is mainstream if and only if most …
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An intutive reason why a "distance" metric may be a poor one for a procedure where we attemp...

I'll appeal to the linked question's answers for computational details. Intuition only: (as requested here) It is "easier" using your procedure to move from $00110^{n-4}$ to $11000^{n-4}$ than it is …
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