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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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Changing PhD supervisor 18 months into 4 year PhD
I think I can offer some wisdom on this.
I struggled in the first year of a PhD in computer science but I succeeded at the end and gained a scholarship. My second year, however, didn't improve despi …
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Mathematical games interesting to both you and a 5+-year-old child
Possibly a bit much for a five year old, but Penrose tiling? With coloured card and round-nosed scissors, of course...
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Illustrating mathematics with wysiwyg tools
I can recommend Ipe from personal experience, although it has been a few years since I've used it.
It is a little clunky, but it will dovetail with your version of LaTeX quite well. You can add pream …
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In what respect are univalent foundations "better" than set theory?
Let me try to answer the question in an oblique way. I should apologise in advance for the poor quality scan below. I have been thinking about the distinction it illustrates quite a bit lately and thi …
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Excellent uses of induction and recursion
I came across this one browsing old questions under the logic tag.
Here's proof of the Principle of Induction:
https://openmathematics.org/#induction
The GitHub repository URL is available in the …
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An example of a beautiful proof that would be accessible at the high school level?
The most success I have ever had teaching proofs at secondary school level is with the Peaucellier–Lipkin linkage. The proof relies on nothing more than basic geometry, namely similar triangles, but t …