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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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Should science authors discourage / boycott the recent push for author IDs
In my opinion it is crazy (and dangerous!) to compare machine readable author IDs on papers with tattooed ID numbers in concentration camps. A paper already has a printed name of the author on it. W …
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How to refer to a “theorem” that you have shown to be wrong
Another example is the paper "Affine semigroups and Cohen-Macaulay rings" by Hoa and Trung (Trans. AMS 298, 1986) in which they give a counterexample to a result of Goto and Watanabe. Rumor has it th …
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How do you not forget old math?
If you want to remember concrete things you can try to a flashcard system like Anki.
In my experience, it helps to structure knowledge on several scales, hierarchically. If you remember the corners …