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Best practices for citing a reference you've found an error in
I am writing a mathematics paper and citing a particular reference in a peer-reviewed mathematical journal. It turns out that the result I reference is ultimately correct, but the proof has an error ...
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What to do when a result is essentially proven but not stated in an existing publication?
I am writing a paper in mathematics that uses some technical results from a classic paper in the field, but not exactly in the way these results were stated at the time. Basically, I found that ...
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Arrangement of references in math papers
My question is the following. Should references in math papers be arranged according to author’s last-names or first-names?
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If you know the original source for something you found in a more recent paper, should you cite both?
The situation I am asking about goes like this: I am writing a math paper that I hope to publish, and want to use a certain math technique that I found in a paper from 2021. In that paper, the author ...
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Should I cite the paper from which I got the research question in my own paper?
While reading the paper of some authors. I have decided to work on a question which they listed as an open question in the conclusion section. I'm hesitating on whether or not to cite the paper, from ...
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What are parameters I can use to compare two researchers' work in Pure Mathematics?
I am a 2nd year master's students in Pure Mathematics.
I am interested in knowing how should I compare the research of 2 pure mathematicians working in same field, say topology. I want to work with ...
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I might be rediscovering someone else's result. What should I do?
I am writing a paper presenting a mathematical theorem I recently proved. However, while reading one of the papers that I am citing, I found out that the same result (or something very similar) might ...
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Whom should I identify as the original contributor?
The paper [1] of Seidel in 1976 is commonly cited when peoples mention two-graphs, but Taylor wrote down the concept of regular two-graph, which is stronger than two-graph in his PhD thesis [2] in ...
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When the title of an article is printed differently in the front/back matter versus the first page, which should be used for citing the article?
I wish to cite a research paper by B. L. van der Waerden from 1928 that is titled (very) slightly differently in the front/back matter of the journal versus the first page of the article: in the front/...
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Do I mention that a paper in mathematics is a "Short Communication" or "Note" or "Research Article" when citing it?
Apologies in advance for a possibly naive question. When I search for literature relevant to my research work, I come across articles that are published variously as either a "Short Communication&...
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Citing Ramanujan's notebooks
I am citing a specific entry in Ramanujan's Notebooks and have a question: should I cite Berndt (the author of the aforementioned text) and Ramanujan directly (to each their own citation) even though ...
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Why did notable mathematician Walter Rudin have so few citations according to ResearchGate? [closed]
According to ResearchGate, Rudin had about 30 ish papers and 500 ish citations.
How come so few? I thought he was this legend of maths.
Here's his profile:
https://www.researchgate.net/scientific-...
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How to acknowledge a MathOverflow user?
I am writing a research paper. A small but important idea for the paper was found on MathOverflow. I know the real name of the user. I tried contacting him and offered him co-authorship, but I got no ...
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Referencing a mathematical result already obtained
I was working(in maths) for some months on a paper. After I got the results, I found out that some of those were already obtained in another paper that was not very related to my topic. In fact, in ...
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Should authors omit statements / citations of well known results in response to referee requests?
I am asking this question to get further perspective on an issue that has come up with a student (undergraduate, mathematics) I am mentoring. At last summer's REU he wrote (in particular!) a solo ...
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Ethics of not referencing StackExchange in a publication? [duplicate]
So I'm feeling a bit guilty. I've been working on a publication proof (my first) of an interesting theorem. The issue is I've been using StackExchange (Mathematics) to answer some similar questions ...
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How should I cite a conjecture to which no written record can be found?
Suppose that a famous mathematician E (long deceased) made a conjecture (C), but no written record of this can be found (either because none exists, or because it exists in a very obscure source). ...
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