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Engineering PhD student, mainly interested in applied mathematics and physics.
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61
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When is one 'ready' to make original contributions to mathematics?
soft-question
asked Jul 3, 2019 at 12:14
mathoverflow.net
57
votes
Co-author keeps rewriting the article in poor English
writing
authorship
collaboration
asked Sep 22, 2021 at 19:06
academia.stackexchange.com
39
votes
Why is so much work done on numerical verification of the Riemann Hypothesis?
nt.number-theory
analytic-number-theory
riemann-zeta-function
riemann-hypothesis
asked Mar 21, 2019 at 13:52
mathoverflow.net
30
votes
Example of a Mathematician/Physicist whose Other Publications during their PhD eclipsed their PhD Thesis
soft-question
asked Mar 28, 2019 at 17:08
mathoverflow.net
25
votes
Formal mathematical definition of renormalization group flow
mp.mathematical-physics
quantum-field-theory
geometric-analysis
flows
renormalization
asked Aug 5, 2019 at 11:12
mathoverflow.net
22
votes
Is Witten's proof of the positive mass theorem rigorous?
mp.mathematical-physics
general-relativity
dirac-operator
spinor
asked Mar 23, 2019 at 5:08
mathoverflow.net
15
votes
Can a torsion-free group be quasi-isometric to a torsion group?
gr.group-theory
geometric-group-theory
torsion
asked Apr 20, 2020 at 20:46
mathoverflow.net
15
votes
Counterexamples to the Penrose Conjecture
dg.differential-geometry
mp.mathematical-physics
general-relativity
asked Oct 20, 2020 at 10:06
mathoverflow.net
13
votes
Is there a solution of the Yamabe problem using Ricci flow?
reference-request
dg.differential-geometry
riemannian-geometry
ricci-flow
geometric-analysis
asked Dec 8, 2019 at 20:52
mathoverflow.net
11
votes
Are there currently any plausible approaches to proving the Penrose сonjecture?
mp.mathematical-physics
general-relativity
geometric-analysis
asked Jul 14, 2019 at 21:27
mathoverflow.net
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31
Results that are too good to be true - peer review
academia.stackexchange.com
19
What are examples of (collections of) papers which "close" a field?
mathoverflow.net
19
Prominent non-mathematical work of mathematicians
mathoverflow.net
19
Will mathematics journals accept a non-novel theorem, but with different approach
academia.stackexchange.com
16
What are the main contributions to the mathematics of general relativity by Sir Roger Penrose, winner of the 2020 Nobel prize?
mathoverflow.net
15
Has there been an equivalent in physics to Ramanujan in maths?
hsm.stackexchange.com
14
Best Springer mathematics books
mathoverflow.net
12
Is it ethical to split the research contribution to increase the paper count?
academia.stackexchange.com
11
PhD dissertations that solve an established open problem
mathoverflow.net
11
How should I proceed when a (famous) professor says I'm not good enough for research?
academia.stackexchange.com
10
Is it common to have a personal copy of one’s own PhD thesis?
academia.stackexchange.com
9
What is the point of reading classics over modern treatments?
mathoverflow.net
8
Each mathematician has only a few tricks
mathoverflow.net
8
Euler's Master's Thesis
mathoverflow.net
7
What dialect or language was the inspiration for Gollum's speech?
scifi.stackexchange.com
7
Why can't the Schrödinger equation be derived?
physics.stackexchange.com
7
What are your opinions on Zeidler's QFT books?
mathoverflow.net
7
Did I see a supernova explosion?
astronomy.stackexchange.com
7
Axiomatic QFT, the reconstruction theorem and functional integrals
mathoverflow.net
7
Examples of creative experiments by mathematicians in modern days
mathoverflow.net
6
What is an "Instanton" in classical gauge theory? (to a mathematician)
mathoverflow.net
6
Note rejected from arXiv: what to do next?
mathoverflow.net
6
Are hypergeometric series not taught often at universities nowadays, and if so, why?
mathoverflow.net
6
Lunch seminars for PhD students
mathoverflow.net
6
Authors sharing accepted paper reviews
academia.stackexchange.com
5
Siegel zeros and other "illusory worlds": building theories around hypotheses believed to be false
mathoverflow.net
5
Which mathematicians died very young or in a tragic way?
hsm.stackexchange.com
5
Why didn't John von Neumann win the Turing Award, Fields Medal or Nobel Prize?
hsm.stackexchange.com
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