Questions tagged [advice]
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I asked A question On MSE, Which I now think can receive more attention from MathOverflow
I recently asked a question On MSE, which was answered by one user, after I used bounty for first time. Later I re-bountied it for more clarification. Still I think it lacks more details, And can ...
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How to deal with the negativity of a power user that picks on you?
For a while, I've been having my suspicions about a certain power user that often downvotes my questions - both here and on MO. Now, I know for certain this user has downvoted a question of mine at ...
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Advice on closing questions as duplicates
In a very recent question the OP had made considerable amount of progress in proving an inequality. The OP was only left to prove the inequality $x^2y+y^2z+z^2x\le \frac{4}{27}$. Myself knowing that ...
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Writing Math equations in MSE. [duplicate]
How do I write the mathematical equations in a question, here on stack exchange?
When I try to write a question which involves equations, I get stuck as I don't know how to input those equations...
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What advice do you give to someone who's written an incomplete question below any understanding?
It happened recently and again today (post now deleted) that someone submitted a question with so little content that it was close to impossible to guess anything from it.
We all know that by the ...
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Where to post for feedback
I had difficulty finding a single, concise treatment online of the construction of numbers from the naturals through the reals. I have collected my notes in a document (<1,200 words) and before I ...
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How to begin working on a problem?
I hope the community supports this effort. We often see homework-type questions with no attempt from the OP at solving the problem. In many such cases the OP answers that they don't know how to begin.
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Where can I find questions I can answer as a high school student?
The question speaks mostly for itself. I'm currently doing high school and while I'm very interested in mathematics, I do not have the appropriate level to answer many questions. Complex Vector Fields,...
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What is the right place (on stackexchange) to ask questions concerning mathematical writing?
As a student working on my first academic publication, I have a ton of questions specifically about writing about math.
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When should I state the full theorem rather than just its name ...
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Sharing a non open access paper
I'm reading a paper, which is not open access, and I had troubles in some passages there, I would like to ask for help in https://math.stackexchange.com/, for that aim I have to share the paper and ...
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I have been banned from asking questions, what should I do?
Almost 2 week ago I asked a question, which first put on hold but after I had edited, it re-opened. Since then I have been banned from asking question. According to help centre, in order to ban to be ...
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What to do when receiving an unsuitable but still relevant answer?
On the 28$^{\textrm{th}}$ of June, I asked a question on the main site which has soon received an answer proposal; even though the concerned input is certainly relevant to my question as it provides a ...
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Editing to correct formatting. What to do when author edits discarding formatting changes? Why the high rep barrier?
I've known about MSE for a while, but I only just recently got involved in MSE properly. One of the daily things I do here on this site is make edits to new posts (often by new users) to add $\LaTeX$ ...
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How to deal with ignored answers
In some situations, I have experienced the following: I have answered a question. Then, after a couple of days (say a week for example), there has still been no feedback to the answer (no comments, no ...
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What to do if there are two contradicting answers?
I got two seemingly good but contradicting answers to this question about order in bases of vector spaces.
I don't know what to do because they both seem plausible and they do not agree.
What can I ...
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