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Information about publishing and citations

In the context of some discussions we are having at my university, it has become evident that some statistical information regarding publishing practices in the various areas of mathematics would be necessary to proceed---you know, facts. In…
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Reference request for educational material In source format, for blind accessibility purposes

Introduction I am a blind undergraduate studen in mathematics. I use screen reading software, which uses synthesized speech to read aloud the contents of the screen, to read and write math. Due to the limitations in presentation-focused formats like…
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Complete (possibly official) list of "What is..." articles from the Notices of the AMS

Does it exist online and where can one find it? (For example, these two sources are not official; is the longer one complete?)
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Gosper's Mathematics

Sometimes I bump into more of the astonishing results of Gosper (some examples follow) and I gather that a lot of them come from hypergeometrics and special functions. Have there been any attempts to try and collect together these? What…
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How to triangulate a math reference?

Today I had the following question: "Is the category of continuous functors a cartesian closed subcategory of ${\bf Cat}\ $?" Suppose I want to find an existing reference for this claim. In that case, I need to find the result in the literature…
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Reference request: Roger Howe's Schur lectures

I have spent a lot of time trying to track down the following without any luck: Perspectives on invariant theory: Schur duality, multiplicity-free actions and beyond, The Schur lectures (1992) (Tel Aviv), 1995, pp. 1–182.MR1321638 (96e:13006) by…
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Baum-Connes conjecture

There are many versions of the Baum-Connes conjecture (the original, coarse, with coefficients, etc.). I would like to know what group theory results are needed in order to prove or disprove one of these conjectures.
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Perverse Sheaves - MacPherson Lecture Notes

I keep running across papers that refer to a set of lecture notes by Robert MacPherson at MIT during the fall of 1993 on Perverse Sheaves. There might also be a set of notes from lectures in Utrecht in 1994 taken by Goresky. For references to these…
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Source of quotation about the waste-baskets of physicists

In an article I'm writing I want to quote (with attribution) the original version of an aphorism that says that one can often find mathematical gold in the waste-baskets of physicists. Would someone provide a reference to that original…
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affine Kac-Moody algebras

What is a good reference for a fast approach to construct affine Kac-Moody algebras from finite-dimensional simple Lie algebras? I know that Kac's book and many others do a very detailed and progressive construction, but I mean a understandable and…
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Is it possible to find a copy of the Cartan seminar (1954–1955) on homotopy and Eilenberg–Mac Lane spaces?

I am trying to find a comprehensive reference on Cartan's construction, the comparison theorem of Moore and related subjects. I have the following references Cartan, H., Algebres d’Eilenberg-Mac Lane, Seminaire Cartan, ENS, 1954-55, expos´es 2 to…
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Trying to find Russian paper from 1947

I'm reading a paper by V.S. Vladimirov and I.V. Volovich and they make a particular claim which is supposed to be discussed in: N.M. Krylov, Dokl. Akad. Nauk SSSR, 60, 687 (1947). I have not been able to reproduce the claimed result, so, it would be…
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"Résumé de cours" by Jacques Tits

I have been reading a number of papers by Jacques Tits (mostly written in the second half of 1980s) and in them he frequently refers to following publications of his: Résumé de cours, Annuaire du collège de France, 81e année (1980-1981),…
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aspherical manifolds of infinite asymptotic dimension

I know that G. Yu asked the question whether the universal cover of a closed aspherical manifold has finite asymptotic dimension in his Annals paper published in 1998. Was this question asked before?
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Embedding into finitely presented groups with finite dimensional $K(.,1)$.

Several years ago I saw a paper where somebody proved that a recursively presented group with 2-dimensional aspherical presentation complex embeds into a finitely presented group with (possibly infinite) finite dimensional $K(.,1)$. I cannot find…
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