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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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Applications of really large numbers
The classical (in true historical sense) application is the sand reckoner and the cattle problem (it might be that Archimedes used problems with practically incalculable numbers to discover who among …
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Analogues of P vs. NP in the history of mathematics
The set of theorems in (what now we call) "absolute geometry" and the set of theorems of "euclidean geometry". That is, the history of the parallel postulate. We now know (after Tarski's formalization …