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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 noteworthy "mic-drop" moments in math?
In 1978 Roger Apéry proved the irrationality of $\zeta(3)$, giving a talk named "Sur l'irrationalité de $\zeta(3)$" which is known for being unusual. There don't seem to be many accounts of the talk, …
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What are some examples of colorful language in serious mathematics papers?
From Andretta's "Large cardinals and iteration trees of height $\omega$" (Annals of Pure and Applied Logic vol. 54, 1990):
We have tried to make this paper self-contained but we could not perform mir …
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Theorems with many distinct proofs
In 1940 Gödel proved the consistency of the continuum hypothesis with the Zermelo-Fraenkel axioms of set theory, by introducing the constructible universe $L$ and subsequently founding the subfield of …