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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 great christmas present for someone with a PhD in Mathematics?
It is common in Iran that students gift "Rubaiyat Omar Khayyam" that can be found in Amazon easily.
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Prominent non-mathematical work of mathematicians
I think, John F. Nash fits in this category, because of 1994 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. (I am not aware the details of his work, I just know this because of "A beautiful mind" movie! …
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Prominent non-mathematical work of mathematicians
Glen E. Bredon is the author of the programs DOS.MASTER for Apple II computers, Merlin (a macro assembler) and ProSel for Apple machines. He was the professor of mathematics at Berkley and IAS and au …
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Prominent non-mathematical work of mathematicians
Not so prominent I think but I'd like to mention that the MathTime Professional 2 (MTPro2) fonts were designed by Michael Spivak of Publish or Perish Inc., see here.
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Interesting mathematical documentaries
Pits, Peaks, and Passes: A Lecture on Critical Point Theory about Marston Morse.
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What is the meaning of Text inside of AMS logo [closed]
What is the meaning of the text inside this AMS logo?
The image is from here, and the logo seems to have been frequently used until the 80's. The text is
ΑΓΕΩΜΕΤΡΗΤΟΣ ΜΗ ΕΙΣΙΤΩ
but Google tra …
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Prominent non-mathematical work of mathematicians
Abu Rayhan al-Biruni (973 – after 1050) was an Iranian polymath, physicist, astronomer, natural sciences, historian, chronologist and linguist. One of the best his achievements is a method proposed a …
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Prominent non-mathematical work of mathematicians
First of all, sorry if this post is not appropriate for this forum.
I have a habit that every time I read a beautiful article I look at the author's homepage and often find amazing things.
Recently I …
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LaTeX tricks that save time in typesetting
Commands like \pd{f}{x} (= $\frac{\partial f}{\partial x}$) defined by \newcommand\pd[2]{\frac{\partial #1}{\partial #2}} is very useful. It would be better if there is a generalized command of this l …
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Examples of great mathematical writing
Comparison Theorems in Riemannian Geometry by Jeff Cheeger and David Ebin.
Why it is great:
... this is a wonderful book, full of fundamental techniques and ideas. (Robert L. Bryant)
Cheege …
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Hassan Akbar-Zadeh's mathematical legacy
Professor Hassan Akbar-Zadeh (Born: March 23, 1928- Iran), a prominent Iranian mathematician has died (March 23, 2020) in Paris after years of research and study. (I'm not sure of the exact dates.)
H …
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LaTeX tricks that save time in typesetting
In ${\rm\LaTeX}$ typesetting, when we repeat a long and complex formula in long documents, it is appropriate to create a new command that just by calling this new command we get the desired output. Fo …
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Illustrating mathematics with wysiwyg tools
A free and easy to use software is GeoGebra. After drawing your figure, go to File option and select export as tikz. I personally don't like $\LaTeX$ output of GeoGebra because its generated codes are …
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Errata database?
I have created a web page recently. If you know about any Errata (official or unofficial) leave a comment here after checking it in mathbookserrata.
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Old books you would like to have reprinted with high-quality typesetting
I don't know whether the book mentioned in the question is readable or not yet; so I post it as an answer:
Curvature and Betti numbers by K. Yano and S. Bochner.