Questions tagged [communication]
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Impact of politics on the availability of video conference software for mathematics online conferences
I'm not sure that this is the best place for this post, but on the other hand I could not think of a better forum. Of course I understand if this post must be downvoted since it doesn't strictly ...
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How to contact a MathOverflow user?
Occasionally it might happen that I want to contact some user, although the thing I want to say is not directly relevant to one of their posts - which makes me think that this would be not really ...
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Mailing lists / Usenet groups for research math
For Category theory there is a well known and quite active research mailing list https://www.mta.ca/~cat-dist/ Do similar mailing lists or usenet groups exist for other branches of mathematics? For ...
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Politeness on MO/MetaMO
On at least two occasions some advanced MO users included in their comments phrases which were less than polite. I hope that these are isolated instances or else I would quietly and simply leave MO ...
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Reference Requests: Good Ways and Bad Ways
I would like to know of types of bad examples of MathOverflow questions that are tantamount to reference requests. I can think of two:
a) A reference request for something that is properly outside ...
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Asking exactly what you need
If you compare my remarks in
Do partitions of unity exist if we impose additional conditions on the derivatives?
and
Exponential sums
you'll see that the problem and my request were exactly the ...
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Should we request a Private Message system?
One convenient thing on AoPS that is missing on MO is the private message system where you can send and receive private messages to other users without figuring out who they are outside the internet ...