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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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Why is the Fourier transform so ubiquitous?
To add a representation theory perspective: if $G$ is a Lie group, and $f$ is a function (or more precisely a distribution) on $G$ then (under certain mild conditions on $f$ and $G$), the function $f$ …
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Algebraic machinery for algebraic geometry
I want to offer a possibly heretical opinion based on conversations I've had with people who do algebraic geometry, especially Joe Harris. I think that it is not necessary to know very much commutativ …