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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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Best mathematics conference?
The Solvay Conference (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solvay_Conference), although formally being a physics conference, was attended by Poincare and was fundamental to establishing quantum mechanics …
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Math books for advanced high school students
The Princeton Companion to Mathematics by Timothy Gowers discusses some very beautiful mathematics in a serious yet not too technical way.
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Examples of research on how people perceive mathematical objects
The golden ratio is often cited in research on pleasing shapes to the human eye in art and architecture. For example, see http://plus.maths.org/content/os/issue22/features/golden/index