Timeline for Is it appropriate to ask a research-level question that is not part of a research problem?
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| Mar 17, 2017 at 10:13 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
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| Nov 16, 2014 at 12:42 | comment | added | Yemon Choi | in interests of fairness, vote this comment up if you disagree with the view in my previous comment | |
| Nov 16, 2014 at 12:41 | comment | added | Yemon Choi | To illustrate my previous remark: my view is that mathoverflow.net/questions/187303/… is a much better question than mathoverflow.net/questions/187246/… | |
| Nov 14, 2014 at 14:30 | comment | added | Todd Trimble Mod | Some highly upvoted questions asked by some of our most illustrious users are more or less asked out of simple curiosity. You are in good company here. | |
| Nov 14, 2014 at 14:07 | comment | added | Yemon Choi | @LSpice It depends if it's inane, or thoughtful :) | |
| Nov 14, 2014 at 13:51 | vote | accept | LSpice | ||
| Nov 14, 2014 at 13:50 | comment | added | LSpice | @YemonChoi, then perhaps you will enjoy my upcoming question about the cohomology of sheaves of von Neumann algebras? :-) | |
| Nov 14, 2014 at 13:30 | history | edited | user9072 |
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| Nov 14, 2014 at 13:21 | comment | added | Yemon Choi | Further to @JonBeardsley's comment: I always am troubled by using "level" as an indicator, since it is possible to ask very fruitful or thoughtful questions that only require definitions one would see as an undergraduate, and possible to ask very inane questions about sheaves, von Neumann algebras, cohomology, whatever | |
| Nov 14, 2014 at 11:14 | answer | added | Brendan McKay | timeline score: 16 | |
| Nov 10, 2014 at 4:25 | comment | added | Jonathan Beardsley | I think people should in general be less worried about asking questions that aren't at high enough of a level. If you're considering that issue, you're not the sort of person that rule is meant to exclude (it seems). Moreover, it's not the end of a world to have a question closed or transferred. If it happened because it's too easy, that's kind of an answer in itself. So just ask! | |
| Nov 7, 2014 at 2:52 | comment | added | LSpice | @JoelDavidHamkins, thanks for the encouragement! It is at mathoverflow.net/q/186439/2383. | |
| Nov 7, 2014 at 2:43 | comment | added | Joel David Hamkins | My initial reaction is: great question; please ask it! I'd love to see an answer. | |
| Nov 7, 2014 at 0:49 | history | edited | LSpice | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Nov 6, 2014 at 23:54 | answer | added | Stefan KohlMod | timeline score: 7 | |
| Nov 6, 2014 at 23:53 | comment | added | The Masked Avenger | You might search MathOverflow for questions involving vector spaces and the axiom of choice. You may find something to help answer the proposed question. With choice, I think the answer is yes because the subset of Perm X "has enough torsion", but I do not know a convincing proof. | |
| Nov 6, 2014 at 22:19 | history | asked | LSpice | CC BY-SA 3.0 |