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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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Quick proofs of hard theorems
Cantor's proof of the existence of transcendental numbers. With a (now) obvious one-line argument he showed that there are uncountably many of them --- when Liouville, Hermite and others had to take ( …
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Math paper authors' order
It seems to me nobody mentioned the Zariski-Samuel and Grothendieck-Dieudonné cases.
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What is your favorite proof of Tychonoff's Theorem?
Here is mine. It's taken from page 11 of "An Introduction To Abstract Harmonic Analysis", 1953, by Loomis:
https://archive.org/details/introductiontoab031610mbp
https://ia800309.us.archive.org/10/item …