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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 algebraic geometry so over-represented on this site?
I agree that the founder effect is a significant factor, but I also have another (more crackpot-ish) theory. I think some disciplines, like algebraic geometry, are harder to pick up in a traditional …
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Cocktail party math
I have a go-to math fact to bring out at parties when people want to hear one. The cute part is that they can do it themselves.
Take a pen and paper and draw a
quadrilateral. There are no
re …
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What is the "right" definition of a ring?
Much like abelian groups and groups, commutative rings and non-commutative rings have different motivations in my mind.
As people have said, non-commutative rings are naturally endomorphisms of abeli …
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What are some examples of colorful language in serious mathematics papers?
I don't even know if this is intentional or not. In his book Teichmuller theory, John Hubbard frequently references the category of Banach Analytic Manifolds. He adheres to the convention that a cat …
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Describe a topic in one sentence.
Homological algebra - In an abelian category, the difference between what you wish was true and what IS true is measured by a homology group.
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What is sheaf cohomology intuitively?
One way to think about $H^1(A)$ is to use the long exact sequence not as a property of cohomology, but outright as a definition. That is, given an exact sequence of sheaves,
$$ 0\rightarrow A\rightar …
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Lecture notes on representations of finite groups
I enjoyed Pavel Etingof's lecture notes for his representation theory class, which can be found here:
http://www-math.mit.edu/~etingof/replect.pdf
(there is a link to it on his website)
They move fast …