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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?
According to the book "King of Infinite Space" Coxeter, "tickled his readers with unexpected turns of phrase such as":
... dividing the product of the first
three expressions by the product of
the la …
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What are some mathematical sculptures?
Adding to the list two of my favorite mathematical sculptors:
George Hart:
http://www.georgehart.com/sculpture/sculpture.html
Bathsheba:
http://www.bathsheba.com/
Finally, there are a lot of nice …
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Most intricate and most beautiful structures in mathematics
The (stable or unstable) homotopy groups of spheres are certainly considered intricate and beautiful by topologists.
Here is an interesting (obvious) fact about the stable homotopy groups of spheres …
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Why do wedges of spheres often appear in combinatorics?
One way to approach this question quantitatively is suggested by probability. One can put various measures on the space of all simplicial complexes on $n$ vertices. One perhaps fairly natural measur …
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Which math paper maximizes the ratio (importance)/(length)?
Kahn and Kalai's, "A counterexample to Borsuk's conjecture" is a 3-page paper which settles a sixty-year-old conjecture with an explicit counterexample in $\mathbb{R}^{1325}$ (and in all sufficiently …