The Mathocalypse as a Dataset
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For quite a few years of my adult life, I was in a situationship with pure mathematics. Specifically, a small lonely subfield of functional analysis. In his book on the subject, John Conway quipped that functional analysis, itself a somewhat modest corner of real analysis, is so vast that two researchers both working in it might not understand each other’s work. From my tiny specialized subfield, math looked very, very large and whatever progress I might make looked very, very inconsequential.Th
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