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When is one 'ready' to make original contributions to mathematics?

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Co-author keeps rewriting the article in poor English

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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Counterexamples to the Penrose Conjecture

dg.differential-geometry mp.mathematical-physics general-relativity asked Oct 20, 2020 at 10:06
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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
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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
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Results that are too good to be true - peer review
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What are examples of (collections of) papers which "close" a field?
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Prominent non-mathematical work of mathematicians
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Will mathematics journals accept a non-novel theorem, but with different approach
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What are the main contributions to the mathematics of general relativity by Sir Roger Penrose, winner of the 2020 Nobel prize?
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Has there been an equivalent in physics to Ramanujan in maths?
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Best Springer mathematics books
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Is it ethical to split the research contribution to increase the paper count?
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PhD dissertations that solve an established open problem
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How should I proceed when a (famous) professor says I'm not good enough for research?
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Is it common to have a personal copy of one’s own PhD thesis?
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What is the point of reading classics over modern treatments?
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Each mathematician has only a few tricks
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Euler's Master's Thesis
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What dialect or language was the inspiration for Gollum's speech?
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Why can't the Schrödinger equation be derived?
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What are your opinions on Zeidler's QFT books?
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Did I see a supernova explosion?
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Axiomatic QFT, the reconstruction theorem and functional integrals
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Examples of creative experiments by mathematicians in modern days
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What is an "Instanton" in classical gauge theory? (to a mathematician)
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Note rejected from arXiv: what to do next?
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Are hypergeometric series not taught often at universities nowadays, and if so, why?
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Lunch seminars for PhD students
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Authors sharing accepted paper reviews
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Siegel zeros and other "illusory worlds": building theories around hypotheses believed to be false
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Which mathematicians died very young or in a tragic way?
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Why didn't John von Neumann win the Turing Award, Fields Medal or Nobel Prize?
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