Tom

Engineering PhD student, mainly interested in applied mathematics and physics.

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

soft-question asked Jul 3, 2019 at 12:14

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57 votes

Co-author keeps rewriting the article in poor English

writing authorship collaboration asked Sep 22, 2021 at 19:06

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45 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

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28 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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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

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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

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15 votes

Counterexamples to the Penrose Conjecture

dg.differential-geometry mp.mathematical-physics general-relativity asked Oct 20, 2020 at 10:06

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15 votes

How does this tensegrity table work?

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Does the Cheeger constant satisfy a heat-type equation?

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Top Answers

Results that are too good to be true - peer review

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What should I do after I found a coding mistake in my masters thesis?

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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 should I do after my PhD supervisor calls me a retard to my face?

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What do you do when you're stuck?

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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 safe to publish research papers in cooperation with Russian academics?

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Famous professor refuses to cite my paper that was published before him in the same area

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PhD dissertations that solve an established open problem

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Is it ethical to split the research contribution to increase the paper count?

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I screwed up a talk - how to move on

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Is it common to have a personal copy of one’s own PhD thesis?

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How should I proceed when a (famous) professor says I'm not good enough for research?

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What are the caveats in pursuing a PhD mainly for fun?

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Each mathematician has only a few tricks

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My advisor stopped formalizing my work, what should I do now?

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What is the point of reading classics over modern treatments?

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Why can't the Schrödinger equation be derived?

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What is an "Instanton" in classical gauge theory? (to a mathematician)

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Did I see a supernova explosion?

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Mathematicians who wrote fiction

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Euler's Master's Thesis

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Examples of papers co-authored by parent/child, or siblings

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Where can I create nice looking graphics for a paper?

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Lunch seminars for PhD students

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Are hypergeometric series not taught often at universities nowadays, and if so, why?

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