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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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Examples of theorems with proofs that have dramatically improved over time
Liouville's Theorem that there exists a transcendental number had its proof greatly improved by Cantor who showed that a mere counting argument suffices.
Liouville's argument needs facts about how ra …
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Atlas-like websites on specific areas of mathematics
The Cunningham Project seeks to factor the numbers $b^n \pm 1$ for
$b = 2$, $3$, $5$, $6$, $7$, $10$, $11$, $12$, up to high powers $n$.
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Decision problems for which it is unknown whether they are decidable
In Conway's Game of Life, the problem of deciding whether a given pattern with finitely many live cells is a Garden of Eden (i.e. whether it lacks a predecessor).
The main obstacle is that there could …