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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's a mathematician to do?
I had the privilege of discussing similar concerns with regard to theoretical physics
with the late Richard Feynman. He told me the following, which has always served me in
good stead: "You keep on …
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Favorite popular math book
Title: Hilbert
Author: Constance Reid
Description: Biography of David Hilbert. Fascinating. Don't have to be D.H. to enjoy it. [the following is added from a duplicate answer - feel free to clean up …
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Graduate ODE textbook
I really like Ordinary Differential Equations by Jack K. Hale. It's very rigorous
and thorough in the fundamentals, has a great section on periodic linear systems, and covers
some advanced stuff such …