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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 are your common strategies/remedies when your new theory/idea stuck in most cases?
Sorry if this is not a suitable post for MO.
Sometimes after reading the origin of a theory/idea in differential topology I put myself in the shoes of that mathematician and ask myself, Did you do the …
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What is so special about Chern's way of teaching?
First of all sorry for this non-research post.
I was watching Jeffrey Blitz Lucky documentary movie and it was interesting to me that a winner of Lottery was a math Ph.D. from Berkeley.
In the movie …
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Most memorable titles
The book of Serge Lang: $\mathrm{SL}_2(\Bbb R)$.
Lang, Serge, $\mathrm{SL}_2(\Bbb R)$, Reading, Mass. etc.: Addison-Wesley Publishing Company. XVI, 428 p. $19.50 (1975). ZBL0311.22001.
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Old books you would like to have reprinted with high-quality typesetting
Not so bad quality but I'd like to see the following recent books in new typesetting:
do Carmo, Manfredo Perdigão, Riemannian geometry. Translated from the Portuguese by Francis Flaherty, Mathematics …
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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
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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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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Interesting mathematical documentaries
Pits, Peaks, and Passes: A Lecture on Critical Point Theory about Marston Morse.
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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
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
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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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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Video lectures of mathematics courses available online for free
30 lectures on Lie Groups, Representation theory and Symmetric Spaces by Wolfgang Ziller, UPenn
27 lectures on Algebraic Topology by Pierre Albin, University of Illinois
36 lectures on Topology & Geo …
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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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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.