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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 do you do if you find a typo in an equation of a paper?
If I were the author, I would definitely prefer my paper to be error-free. In my opinion, pointing out a mistake isn't arrogant on your part, provided the mistake is genuine.
In order to avoid any fr …
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Grothendieck's mathematical diagram
I was going through this article (Who Is Alexander
Grothendieck?)(Wayback Machine) which appeared in the Notices of the AMS, and in it, there's a picture(page 936) which shows a mathematical diagram d …
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What are some mathematical sculptures?
Cliff Stoll makes Klein bottles and sells them too. He's made the "worlds biggest klein bottle". You can see that here.
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A Learning Roadmap request: From high-school to mid-undergraduate studies
Hi there Max,
I too am of the same age, and I too am fascinated with math. :)
Now that I think about it, I was inspired by two teachers and two books.
The first book was a pretty old one called "E …
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Good papers/books/essays about the thought process behind mathematical research
Like someone has commented, Poincaré has lectured on this topic. An excerpt is given the "World of Mathematics", which, as you all may know, is a collection of mathematical articles by famous people. …
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Presenting a paper: Do's and Don'ts?
I was wondering what would be the best way to present your paper at a conference, if your paper is selected for "short communication", lasting for about 15 minutes?
Should you concentrate on the main …
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Reading materials for mathematical logic
This book is a general textbook on Logic, so it's not for beginners, but anyway, the text is called "Mathematical Logic" by Yu.Ershov and E.A. Palyutin. Sorry I couldn't find a relevant link anywhere. …
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(Preferably rare) Audio/Video recordings of famous mathematicians?
In this interview, John H. Conway is interviewed by Chaim Goodman-Strauss for the "Math Factor". The interview mainly focusses on Conway's long time collaboration with the legendary Martin Gardner. On …
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Examples of results which were surprising but later shown to be natural. [closed]
After Ramanujan formulated his conjectures on the Tau-function, and after the importance of the function was realized, it took the development of the theory of Modular forms for the complete resolutio …
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(Preferably rare) Audio/Video recordings of famous mathematicians?
I found the video recording of The Atle Selberg Memorial
which was held at the IAS a few years back. There is an "archival clip" of Selberg at the IAS included in the same page. This may be the same …
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(Preferably rare) Audio/Video recordings of famous mathematicians?
Terence Tao's homepage has a link to a collection of quotes, and one among them was Hilbert's famous "We must know, we will know" quote. This quote also had an audio link to it. Now although I'm not s …